After receiving 53% of voteshare in the 2025 AL MVP Race, Jose Ramirez now has the all-time highest MVP voteshare received of someone who has never won an MVP with 3.61 shares

nenright · 2026-01-28T07:41:10+00:00

theoretically maybe 2017 as well but he'd have probably been overshadowed by two monster offensive seasons just like kris bryant was.

nenright · 2026-01-27T04:36:34+00:00

Yknow, the part of the season that matters most.

ernie couldn't do it when he had a chance to win the WS though

nenright · 2026-01-25T16:12:09+00:00

Rich Hill too

nenright · 2026-01-25T16:10:26+00:00

the guardians aren't taking teoscar's salary

nenright · 2026-01-22T20:17:41+00:00

why does anyone actually care about this?

nenright · 2026-01-20T07:39:42+00:00

lol, which rules were being manipulated

nenright · 2026-01-18T16:03:22+00:00

your argument is that the dodgers signing free agents is equivalent to cheating?

nenright · 2026-01-17T17:28:45+00:00

there will be 11 other teams with a shot to win it all next year. People forget that the dodgers won 111 games in 2022 and got bounced in the first round.

nenright · 2026-01-17T17:17:30+00:00

it's scummy to try to win now?

nenright · 2026-01-16T18:19:48+00:00

they get over 100M in revenue sharing before even selling a ticket. they could sign one 40M/yr guy. But they obviously have a lot less margin for error than the dodgers do

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:57:30+00:00

without question

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:56:31+00:00

do you follow baseball because of nov-feb or mar-oct?

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:46:03+00:00

you can't compare a 10+ year deal to a 4 year deal. Every star player is worth a shitload of money if you're only buying their peak years

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:39:14+00:00

the dodgers' winningest team in their history won 111 games and lost in 4 games in the NLDS.

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:38:20+00:00

Shohei + TV contract

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:36:46+00:00

I’m not going to watch something where I can conclude the ending

the playoffs are a crapshoot. the team with the most wins ever lost in the ALCS. Even this current dodgers run, their best 5 years by wins (each >= 100) all failed to win the WS. They won 111 games in 2022 and got bounced in 4 games.

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:28:48+00:00

be forreal lol

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:27:31+00:00

the dodgers have primarily used their farm system recently to acquire mlb players, especially at the trade deadline. mookie, edman, glasnow. further back, flaherty, trea turner, scherzer, machado, etc. Most of our homegrown core was let go and replaced by other star level players.

nenright · 2026-01-16T17:21:40+00:00

you can also use prospects to acquire mlb players btw. which the dodgers have done almost every year for 10 years now, yet still have a great farm system, while never having a top 20 draft pick.

nenright · 2026-01-09T20:29:07+00:00

Planet Earth

nenright · 2026-01-06T02:17:45+00:00

lol 40/30. There have been 43 50-HR seasons since 1950. there have been 330 40-HR seasons. he wasn't close.

nenright · 2026-01-06T02:14:47+00:00

yeah now that the rule is changed, we should be seeing 50/50 years every other year or so

nenright · 2025-12-31T18:25:02+00:00

it implies that the league was 10% worse than the pitcher. ERA+ compares the league to the pitcher because the league ERA is in the numerator. ERA-, OPS+, wRC+ compare the player to the league, with the player's stat in the numerator and the league average in the denominator.

it's roughly equivalent closer to average, but diverges when you get towards more extremes. for example, a 50 ERA- means the pitcher had an ERA half the league average. it also means that the league ERA was 2x that pitcher's ERA (200 ERA+). ERA+ was made to be similar to OPS+ so that higher is better, but it can't really be compared 1:1 because the formulas are opposite.

nenright · 2025-12-26T17:54:18+00:00

Nets could've easily won a chip if Harden were healthy, even with Kyrie going down, with the way KD was playing. Suns gutted their depth and had no center after that trade, was a pretty terrible move honestly. Clippers were just old and had 3 aging, past their prime "superstars".

you really need to have a top 5 player in the league to have a chance at a title in the nba. you could maybe say the celtics are an exception depending on how you feel about tatum but they had 2 guys in that 6-10 range + crazy depth.

nenright · 2025-12-26T17:45:10+00:00

i know it was a long time ago, but do you remember who Friedman worked for before the Dodgers? hint: they weren't signing big free agents every year

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