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Pretty sure “the lineup is embarrassing” would be considered a statement of opinion. Under the circumstances I wouldn’t consider it embarrassing. At least we have guys like Sheets, Burger and Collins to fill in. If you’re counting Burger as an MLB power threat then you ought to throw Sheets in there too

I don’t see how anyone could expect much better under the circumstances. Three top outfielders, second base, catcher and with SS sitting. Doesn’t leave much. At least we have some promising young bats to pepper in there and the pitching staff is healthy. Hopefully we get some reinforcements soon but it’s not like you can just snap your fingers and make it happen considering sellers have the rest of the month to generate offers

Probably wants to give him favorable matchups until he’s more settled in like he did with Vaughn early in the season

How you know he didn’t? Maybe he’ll sub Hamilton for someone else and move Goodwin to a corner this time

TLR loves putting a switch hitter behind a lefty. Not a bad idea but not sure it’s a good enough reason to bat Garcia fifth

Well check out Engel’s and Roberts thighs they’re clearly the most built on the team. Coincidence? Maybe

Check out Brady’s arm. This isn’t even close to maxed out muscle mass. Lean and wiry. Imagine if he had been throwing with an arm built like Robert’s thigh. His arm would have been done 15+ years ago. That’s what you want in a baseball player because the motions in baseball are similar whip type movements.

If the majority of engineers designed bridges that collapse, I still wouldn’t hire an engineer who designs bridges that collapse. Injuries up league wide but Sox seem to be among the league leaders. Is it a coincidence the guys like Engel, Robert and Grandal for example, are also the guys built like tanks, like they’re doing max reps all day. You can’t make a tendon stronger. At some point there is too much muscle for the tendon to handle. Performing whip like movements repeatedly at max muscle mass is going to result in increased injuries to tissues. One of the reasons you don’t typically see quarterbacks and tennis players built like linebackers i’d think. I dont think there’s much of a mystery here as people are making out. I could be wrong but to me it seems obvious.

Yeah but correlation doesn’t equate to causation. My argument isn’t that there is no difference between catchers. It is that framing stats aren’t valid. Considering there are a number of other variables that could result in a missed call, crediting the missed call to the catcher can’t possibly be sound. Variance between umpires and pitchers would have just as much effect on rates as catchers. Now we know for sure that Collins set of pitchers is much different than Grandals. Maybe the variance of both the set of pitchers and umpires renders the comparison invalid. Is there anything in the stat that says it doesn’t? No, and that is a fact. If we none the less presume that tracking an unsound measurement over years would somehow wash this out, then you’d have to admit that comparing Grandal’s and Collins’ framing stats would still be unsound since we don’t have years of framing stats for Collins.

Yeah I just watched Grandal make a number of poorly framed pitches the other day as well. Ive even seen poorly framed pitches called as strikes and well framed pitches called balls. Framing clearly is not the only factor that effects whether strike calls are missed, so pretending like it is isn’t going to result in a good metric. Theoretically framing should have no impact on the calling of strikes anyway since the ump is calling the pitch based on location of the pitch as it passes the plate.

Is your argument that every missed call is due to catcher framing?

There’s something like 90 umpires in MLB, all of whom call different strike zones and are prone to different mistakes. That is enough umpires that the sets of umpires each catcher would see over course of the season would be statistically significant enough to render pitch framing stats virtually invalid imo. You can’t just presume because one catcher was behind the plate when a ball was called a strike a certain number of times that the catcher was the cause of it. Maybe the backup catcher randomly got a highly disproportionate amount of games with umpires who call strikes as balls more often. Beyond that, giving catchers credit for umpires making mistakes is just ludicrous on the face of it. How do you determine whether a catcher tricked an ump or if the umpire just spaced out and blew the call? You can’t. And with the disparity in umpires calling games, as I argue above I don’t think it’s valid looking at trends since the data sets of umpiring stats would vary to such a degree from catcher to catcher

To me the fact the act was minimal makes it worse. Like it was the straw that broke the camels back. If it was a good twisting or something I’d be more hopeful a little rest would do the trick

Actually I misread it anyway. I thought you were responding to post with “I don’t see it” but you meant you didn’t see the injury happen I think. I think I might be developing late onset dyslexia. Literally saw “I didn’t see it” as “I don’t see it” until I reread it. No one actually said officially 1-2 months, I was referring to Dick Allen’s speculation in post you quoted

I thought a quote from Engel upon his return was illuminating. Something to the effect of “you won’t see me maxing leg curls anytime soon.” Maybe maxing leg curls was the problem to begin with. For a hundred plus years the reigning philosophy was excessive weight training was injurious to baseball players. Like Ozzie sAid you can’t pull fat. How all these guys thirty plus years ago play their entire careers without these type of injuries?

Isn’t that what said? A month or two

Dbacks used to have a one dollar ticket section, including when they won the World Series after a couple playoff appearances. I don’t think it was due to lack of sales but rather the idea everyone in the community should have access. At least that’s how it was presented. Don’t think JR is quite that progressive though.

I agree, but Moncada’s hand injury has nothing to do with it. Not sure how conditioning is going to help prevent Moncada at full speed crashing like a freight train gone off the rails. Now all the hamstring and similar injuries on the other hand....

Yeah I think Molina retires a cardinal

Sounds about right

Welp hope you didn’t have DK in your roto lineup today

Wore the heck out of that winning ugly shirt as a kid back in 80s. Forgot all about it talk about a flashback

The political theory of despotism in a nutshell

Yermin in April was the definition of hitterish

Looks like a line drive on the score card