JoeC

One thing I remember about Bannister from his playing career is that he embraced analytics wholeheartedly. This is the kind of stuff he (I would think) would be looking at very closely.

Can someone just whip up an AI bot that deletes Schriffen’s voice to make the broadcast slightly less intolerable?

No. the “we ain’t taking that!!” was the most embarrassing.

Overall a positive piece IMO. If there IS an actual development plan in place between Chicago and Charlotte like Cannon suggests, that is what I’ve been hoping for for years.

Agreed. Honestly the closest comparison to baseball players is golfers IMO.

Sounds about right somehow.

Which honestly is more than I expected in a trade for Bummer.

That's a much simpler and elegant way to put it than my word vomit.

Sorry for the barrage of responses here. It’s kind of a point love to nerd out on. You just happened to give me an excuse to talk about it - lol. Last point - my point isn’t that hockey isn’t full of precise, repetitive movements. It absolutely is. But it’s got enough of them that a player’s success isn’t generally completely dependent on their ability to do one specific thing. So, back to my original post, baseball is far more dependent on precision movements. In baseball. A position player’s value is overwhelmingly determined these days by his ability to swing a bat. The nature of the movement is that it requires absolute precision with defined and rehearsed start and end points that players strive to replicate. A difference in, for example, the angle in which you stride as you lead into your swing can (and frequently does) impact a player’s performance in an outsized way. An injured wrist can be the difference between being a productive bat and being Martin Maldonado. Hockey, mechanically, is a diverse enough of a sport that there are enough things that you can do to still be productive. I think one thing I misspoke on my original post is that baseball has “more” precise movements. The point I meant to get across is the dependency on said movements, or the portion of performance that relies on the replicability of those movements.

Also, swinging a bat and pitching are literally like 90% of what determines the outcome of a game of baseball.

Also, this.

Perhaps you are missing my point. If you hurt your wrist, say, you can adjust your mechanics for taking a face-off and still be effective. Your mechanics are thrown off, for sure, but you can adjust. Baseball, when pitching or hitting, is so incredibly dependant on repetitive mechanics that smaller injuries will have an outsized impact on performance. With a damaged wrist like Luis Robert a couple of years ago, you can still absolutely be an effective hockey player. It will affect you, and it hurts like hell, but you can make adjustments. You might lose that little snap on your pass, or you might just straight up not be able to take a slap shot, for example, but there is enough that you can do to be effective elsewhere. In baseball, if you have a wrist injury like that, one major part of your game is just straight up f'ed. Can you try to play through the pain? Sure, but it's far more likely to affect your performance. Not saying it doesn't hurt hockey players (it does hurt). What I am saying is that hockey has so many other components athletically that, if you can stand the pain, you can perform. Similar injuries in baseball, by the nature of pitching and hitting, will have an outsized impact on your ability to perform. If you disagree, feel free to call out any pitcher for not pitching through a torn UCL.

I played NCAA hockey.

Baseball requires and is far more dependent on repetitive precise movements compared to a sport like hockey.

The Sox got a collection of lottery tickets in return for Bummer.

Pretty sure if I’m Holliday, i say no

Maybe a more accurate way I should have phrased it is that you don't run X Rays to look for soft tissue, typically

If it's X Rays, then not soft tissue

Not sure how it's a difficult concept that you have to have a collection of talent so that you have good players playing together. You can't spread out your talented players over time and expect to field good teams.

I don't think that's what @Tnetennba meant.

I just wanted to acknowledge that I love the ode to the original Mighty Ducks.

If you don't agree after seeing these two posters agreeing on this,. . . .

I’m happy to eat crow on Crochet.

I only want to trade with Pittsburgh if it involves ending up with a Yaz - Maldonado tandem behind the plate. Because some of us just want to watch the world burn.

Let's start one.