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Post by Blunashun on Aug 2, 2020 23:59:32 GMT
We've all seen how baseball reacts to adversity. Strike wipes out the 1994 postseason & the beginning of 1995, homeruns start flying out of the park. Only after Congress made PED's a political football did MLB grow a conscience. Then the owners blamed the players, after giving them tens of millions of dollars when Bonds, McGwire & Sosa looked like superheroes from comic book magazine covers. Me? I had no idea. Damn greedy athletes.
PED's get harder to use & they go to harder balls & bats.
I'm predicting a minimum of 25 homers to lead each league. That projects out to 68 over a 162 game season. I say there's a VERY good chance of someone hitting .400. An RBI a game in the last Triple Crown category.
Manfred does all this silly tinkering to speed up games when the only thing he really has to do is leave the game alone.
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Post by 88bulldog on Aug 3, 2020 1:25:10 GMT
I say no one hits .400, it’s too hard to do...
As for 25 HRs, very possible.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Aug 3, 2020 5:18:28 GMT
We've all seen how baseball reacts to adversity. Strike wipes out the 1994 postseason & the beginning of 1995, homeruns start flying out of the park. Only after Congress made PED's a political football did MLB grow a conscience. Then the owners blamed the players, after giving them tens of millions of dollars when Bonds, McGwire & Sosa looked like superheroes from comic book magazine covers. Me? I had no idea. Damn greedy athletes. PED's get harder to use & they go to harder balls & bats. I'm predicting a minimum of 25 homers to lead each league. That projects out to 68 over a 162 game season. I say there's a VERY good chance of someone hitting .400. An RBI a game in the last Triple Crown category. Manfred does all this silly tinkering to speed up games when the only thing he really has to do is leave the game alone. And it hasn’t made much of a difference in game time lengths as far as I’ve seen. The extra inning game the Dodgers were in went twelve despite the new “man at second” rule with both scoring in the tenth and then two additional innings of this foolishness. At least they’re not using replay on every other call this year. I don’t recall it being utilized in any of the 10 Dodger games thus far, although I didn’t see every inning of every game. And if they’re going to keep showing mini-commercials between batters, how about doing the same between INNINGS? Start them as the defense is departing the field, while the pitcher throws his seven warm-ups and then “batter up”. Instead, we get at least three or four minutes of full length ads while the players wait for them to complete their run time. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Aug 17, 2020 23:07:59 GMT
Charlie Blackmon is batting .446.
DJ LeMahieu - .411
Donovan Solano - .403
Homeruns (And what it projects out to over a 162 game schedule)
Mike Trout - 9 (66)
Aaron Judge - 9 (69)
Fernando Tatis - 9 (63)
Nicholas Castellanos - 8 (65) - Previous high was 27.
J.T. Realmuto - 8 (76) - His previous high was 25. He's a catcher.
Blackmon is averaging better than an RBI a game. So is Anthony Santander. Realmuto is going at a pace of 190. These projections are not based on the players' games played, but their team's total games played. So a player might have already missed a game or two.
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Post by Blunashun on Aug 22, 2020 10:06:05 GMT
Blackmon at .417. LeMahieu at .411.
Tatis with 12 homers. Trout & Luke Voit with 10 each. Nelson Cruz, Mookie Betts, Brandon Lowe, Aaron Judge, Anthony Santander, Teoscar Hernandez, Matt Olson & Nicholas Castellanos with 9 a piece.
Tatis with 29 ribbies. Santander & Cruz with 25. Blackmon & Lowe with 24. Jose Abreu with 23. Kyle Seager & Trout with 22. Realmuto, Betts, Dominic Smith & Mike Yastrzemsk with 21 each. Aaron Judge with 20 in 17 games. Judge is going at a pace of 86 homers & 190 RBI's over a 162 game schedule.
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Post by jrgreene6 on Aug 22, 2020 18:07:47 GMT
Blackmon at .417. LeMahieu at .411. Tatis with 12 homers. Trout & Luke Voit with 10 each. Nelson Cruz, Mookie Betts, Brandon Lowe, Aaron Judge, Anthony Santander, Teoscar Hernandez, Matt Olson & Nicholas Castellanos with 9 a piece. Tatis with 29 ribbies. Santander & Cruz with 25. Blackmon & Lowe with 24. Jose Abreu with 23. Kyle Seager & Trout with 22. Realmuto, Betts, Dominic Smith & Mike Yastrzemsk with 21 each. Aaron Judge with 20 in 17 games. Judge is going at a pace of 86 homers & 190 RBI's over a 162 game schedule. Those are crazy ass numbers for Judge! And as much as the balls flew out of the park last year, to me it appears they are wound tighter and doing so even more this year. Of course, we didn’t have the month plus of cooler and sometimes “drizzle” games to deal with by starting in July, but damn - I can’t remember watching a game this year besides last night’s without at least one or two balls leaving the yard. And there were a couple / few in that game that hit the outfield wall. And in a lot of them, they’ve come from both teams. GO DODGERS!!! |
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Post by Blunashun on Sept 4, 2020 0:26:32 GMT
Mike Trout is going at a pace of 57 homers & 149 RBI's. He's missed three games.
In a 60 game schedule Mike would hit (after subtracting those 3 games) 21 homers & drive in 55 runs.
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