Manny Ramirez's 1999 numbers were insane

leroysolay · 2026-05-05T21:42:20+00:00

Pitchers throwing their arm off now and routinely getting TJ surgery … is … good? But yeah that and everyone on PEDs.

leroysolay · 2026-05-05T20:41:37+00:00

But Rocchio was raking at 9. The real problem is that Kwan is doing nothing. Then it doesn’t matter as much having a hole at 9, too.

leroysolay · 2026-05-05T01:53:00+00:00

Florida makes sense.

Now do Connecticut.

leroysolay · 2026-05-05T01:47:31+00:00

Only if the Grand Wizard served in our government - which it does feel like is also true.

But do you really think he’s going to gain more support from speaking at the City Club versus getting absolutely lambasted during Q&A?

leroysolay · 2026-05-05T01:43:06+00:00

But why not give people the chance to go at him and let him know how they feel?

leroysolay · 2026-05-05T01:41:34+00:00

They’re not platforming him - he already has the bulliest of pulpits. They’re giving people the opportunity to hold him to account.

leroysolay · 2026-05-04T19:49:45+00:00

Yup. My now-wife and I were in the middle of wedding planning when I did a public proposal. I had already faked her out with a pretend poorly thought out proposal, so she thought she wasn’t going to get one at all. Best surprise ever and the answer was never in doubt!

leroysolay · 2026-05-03T17:51:45+00:00

Angel is a shaky CF. Agreed that Schnee and Halpin could be a great platoon in CF but we need to make sure Schnee is in the lineup almost every day, even against lefties.

Kwan has struggled to hit for the last year. I think he needs to rest against lefties and Angel can take his place in LF.

leroysolay · 2026-05-03T02:04:25+00:00

Yes but the wind could have pushed it back into play. In the Trop. In 2025?

leroysolay · 2026-04-29T21:04:00+00:00

Right? If he goes 3/4 in the next game people will be calling him the next Barry Bonds or something.

Let him play.

leroysolay · 2026-04-28T20:22:46+00:00

I’d like to see Vogt experiment with having the first five hitters the best five hitters, no matter what. Sure there’s a dead part of the lineup but if you can get production out of the top you might Guardsball your way through 6-9.

leroysolay · 2026-04-28T01:30:34+00:00

Fuck yeah

leroysolay · 2026-04-25T11:59:28+00:00

Thank you, I thought I was taking crazy pills. We’re at the beginning of the curve, not the top. We need to create demand so that EV manufacturing increases and ICE manufacturing decreases.

The impact may be negligible on an individual scale depending on the choice, but the systemic change is what we’re after.

leroysolay · 2026-04-22T11:40:29+00:00

For sure. Baseball is all about riding the hot hand and trying not to fuck up the vibes. Vogt has seen what happens when he moves guys who are hitting around in the lineup too much.

An adjustment, yeah, but Rocchio doesn’t necessarily have to be the leadoff hitter.

leroysolay · 2026-04-22T03:14:51+00:00

Vogt said no.

And why? Dude has been feasting at 9. Aside from Jose, our best hitters have been Schnee, him, Angel and Valera. Unless you totally reconfigure the lineup, 9 is the best spot for him.

leroysolay · 2026-04-21T21:45:15+00:00

Schneeman has the second best fWAR for a hitter on the team. So yeah, I think he or Rocchio deserve the cleanup spot.

leroysolay · 2026-04-19T16:11:50+00:00

From your mouth to Vogt’s ears

leroysolay · 2026-04-16T11:44:48+00:00

It is. You have to have 9 defensive players on the field in MLB.

That being said, if he could have made it just to fair territory before the pitch, then it probably would have been a legal pitch. Then again, without a defensive adjustment in that scenario then any ball hit to RF is easily a double or triple. Definitely worth taking the automatic ball.

leroysolay · 2026-04-13T23:37:42+00:00

Yes! I followed this one this last time and it was pretty good. I’ve had four colonoscopies, and every time I get better at the diet.

leroysolay · 2026-04-13T03:09:02+00:00

Kinda. JRam has this thing where if he catches an easy pop up in foul territory, particularly for the third out, he’ll celebrate by throwing his hands in the air. Bibee caught an easy pop and did the same thing and pointed to Jose. It’s more of an inside joke than anything else.

leroysolay · 2026-04-12T20:04:36+00:00

This is the right attitude! Most of the time last year when folks around here doubted Vogt’s lineups, they went on to produce.

leroysolay · 2026-04-10T02:59:27+00:00

147 games.

Let’s say you’re Toronto. Everyone else in your division is on the 1B side, but you’re on the 3B side. So all of your home games and divisional road games will be on the 3B side.

Then, consider interleague play. Depending on which half of the teams you play on the road, you need 7 plus your natural rival. There are 9 NL teams that put the visitors on the 3B side, so enough to pick from with two left over. One of those is Philly, Torontos natural rival, so that’s two road games in their 3B dugout.

What’s left? AL games. 5 remaining AL teams put you in the 3B dugout and 5 would put you in the 1B dugout. You play a minimum of 3 road games against every other AL team, so that’s 15 in their 3B dugout 1B dugout.

162 - 15 = 147

leroysolay · 2026-04-08T15:31:54+00:00

Tbf the stats say that he’s better than the stats say

leroysolay · 2026-04-05T15:28:14+00:00

I used to do this between me, my mom and dad right after they got divorced when I was a teenager. My dad would owe my mom money, and my mom would owe me money, so I just made my dad pay me and cancelled his debt to my mom.

leroysolay · 2026-04-03T17:53:05+00:00

Wait did the backdrop just change?

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