JoeC

I will preface this post by saying that I am in no position to disagree with anything you’ve said above. For curveballs, would tunneling matter all that much? Meaning, if the pitch looks that vastly different out of the hand, does it force the hitter to essentially have to completely adjust their estimated trajectory and timing? Or is there an alternative pitch tunneling combination? I’m thinking of Gio’s short-lived-patented “high change.”

Probably flushing something.

I was commenting on the re-naming of Andrew Vaughn to Aaron Vaughn. ...but yes, I do sort of agree that Vaughn is helping Robert's trade value.

I have to ask about Aaron Vaughn... I can only imagine it's Andrew Vaughn's newly adopted persona, channeling his inner Hank Aaron while slugging it out in Milwaukee.

Diminished Skills?

Schriff seems OK as long as he just lets the game come through him. I think he'd be great as a "vanilla" broadcaster, honestly. Just call what you see, maybe with some emotion to match the moment. Treat the color guy like an interviewee, but don't force it. As soon as he gets excited (or pretends to be excited), it just feels forced. I don't think it'll ever be as bad as the "we're not gonna take that" bit, but the excitement just doesn't feel natural from him.

"Do your best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." It's part of the natural evolution of society and language.

There were signs.

Scary

It's almost like having a great young core in 2020 be ready to take the next step, only to bring in an ancient dinosaur of a manager to lead the team and watch nearly all of the players regress and rot away. But nobody would be dumb enough to do both of those things.

Yeah '93~'94 was genuinely the product on the field.

Same here, and that basically any player would prefer to play for the Yankees over the Sox.

Counterpoint: Clint Frazier

It took exactly 3 posts in this thread.

I'd love to see an Ozzie statute of him motioning for Jenks using the "big wide guy" gesture.

...or... Sign some superstar to a mega-deal with a ton of deferred money, with half the compensation being for the 2027 season that's going to get wiped out (or at least significantly abbreviated).

The Tim Elko Experience is back on tour!

Except for those greedy hedge fund types, obviously.

Gold.

Likely Brooks Baldwin.

Given the uphill battle we’re facing, this thread sounds more fun when reading the thread title to the tune of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.”

Ozzie’s teams just had a way of beating projections and Pythagorean projections during the late 2000’s, from what I remember.

Don’t think there’s such a thing as the right thread here, to be fair.

And it’s all anyone can talk about for the next 3 months.