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The underlying point that leadoff walks are especially damaging is correct, and you did phrase it as a thought experiment. It's not anywhere near a plausible scenario though, being that the players union would nip that in the bud immediately. Perhaps if you proposed an incentive rather that a penalty it might gain more engagement in the "thought experiment".

Relative to Angel Hernandez and CB Bucknor, he's alright.

There's a clean peanut joke in this post somewhere, but, like the Angels, I just can't put it all together.

It's totally a thing. I saw it with my own eyes on Gilligan's Island. Skipper concussed, got amnesia, concussed again, memory came back. Science!

When he was drafted there was talk about Adell's "makeup and maturity". In hindsight, it seems like excitement over his potential, which was and is undisputable, projected those attributes on him. Wash's comments are fairly telling. Hoping for the team's sake that he puts it all together and earns large increases through his arb years.

Yes. They have the potential to have 2,3,3,3,4 but 3,3,4,4,5 is more realistic.

AJ, a couple of years ago you had a fantastic post that compared the Nationals and other WS teams with heavy top ends with other rotations deep with 2s & 3s. As I recall, the jist was that because relying on having #1-types is difficult to draft/project/develop/acquire (also risky due to the likelihood of injury), that the trend of WS winners was towards deeper rotations with mid-tier arms. Anyway, I doubt that I summarized that post well but, it was a fantastic analysis and very relevant to the current conversation.

That's assuming a lot, namely that the Feds will look the other way at what appears to be Ohtani changing his story once finding out the seriousness of admitting to making the wire transfers. Before saying that Ippei stole the money there were reports saying that Shohei admitted to paying the debts to an illegal bookie with wire transfers. Federal crime right there, if indeed true. Should the Feds pursue that, MLB will not just allow him to keep playing while a federal charge is hanging over his head.

WWII GI helmet (the anti-kabuto)

.500 here we come! Ya filthy animals.

A no-no is its own reward. If you're honest, none of the Angels starters have "earned" the opening day bid in the traditional sense of designation of staff ace. Reid still needs to build consistency, which he says himself. Giving laurels before they are due is the kiss of death. Oh, and google "curse of the bobblehead"

Manager's version of BSOHL?

There may be some unknowns, but at least in my mind, it is a known that there was no theft, and accusations of theft are an attempt to keep Ohtani from suffering the consequences of the federal crime of using the banking system to pay off illegal betting (doesn't matter who laid the bet) that he has admitted doing before changing his story.

The jumbotron develops a burn-in ghost image of the Rally Monkey by August.

If it were entirely up to MLB I'd agree, but there is another three letter entity that has a say.

If Ohtani ends up with a mega-suspension or serving time it will be interesting if MLB tries to invoke the Uniform Player Contract "morals clause" to void his contract on behalf of the Dodgers. MLB/Padres had to take it to an arbitrator in '87 in Lamarr Hoyt's case, and lost, but I'm sure they'd rather try that again than be stuck with 700m. They didn't try it with Bauer but the difference between Bauer and Ohtani's situations was that MLB knew that Bauer's case was a shakedown but still a PR nightmare, while Ohtani's case appears likely that he participated in criminal activity to some, as yet unknown, extent. That, and about 600m.

The only explanation for your post is that you believe that time machines are in common usage.

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