Post by Blunashun on Sept 23, 2024 6:40:45 GMT
Has to be planned by front offices everywhere. This past winter, the Dodgers invested a combined $511,000,000 in Tyler Glasnow & Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That's including the 50 million dollar posting fee. Glasnow is done for the year. He's trying to avoid surgery. Which might be putting off the inevitable. Yamamoto has pitched 85.0 innings in 17 starts. 5.0 innings per. After today's effort, who knows that he doesn't go on IL?
Manfred whored out the game to speed it up & encourage pencil necked geeks to run again. Only a couple of pickoff attempts. Pitch clock. Bases that would make crazy Mike Lindell proud. Oven mitts. I'm not trying to take away from Ohtani's accomplishments. But base runners of yore had to deal with all these things (including not having the right to appeal umpire's poor decisions on whether the ball reached the base before the runner did. Not whether or not a tag was applied in time.) & so, to me, their accomplishments just seem more significant. Has Shohei hit over 50 homers? Yes. He has. Should the 50 SB's be considered alongside, say, Willie Mays, hitting 51 homers & stealing 24 bases in 1955? No. Or maybe on a PAR with Mays' 24 SB's. Let Mays run wild with these advantages & see what happens.
Now comes pitching. Faster. Faster. More spin. Arms blowing out. To me the logical solution to this would be to expand rosters to carry more pitchers. Don't expect pitchers to go more than 5.0 innings, maybe 20-25 times a season. MAYBE 20-25 times a season. Who do we have hurt right now? Glasnow, Stone, Ryan, Kershaw, Gonsolin on the way back, May, Buehler may never be the same again, Miller, Yamamoto (?), & Ohtani, that I can recall.
Instead of a 26-man active roster, maybe they can go to a 28-man roster. 29. Even 30. Right now (with September callups) the Dodgers have 28 men on their active roster. 14 are pitchers. Half to man one position. Just go with 30, for pitchers. For shortsighted owners, they might think they're not going to pay for that. That's not seeing the bigger picture. For every 5 million dollar reliever you add to the roster, you would be paying Tyler Glasnow & Yoshi Yamamoto less.
The natural consequence of this would be less & less players who want to be pitchers. Which would force Manfred (or some other pencil pusher) to somehow force organizations to stop abusing their pitchers. That benefits everyone. On September 22nd, there was one pitcher in all MLB with 200 innings pitched. Seth Lugo with 204.2. With 32 starts, he's averaging 6.1 innings per. How much SHOULD you invest in that?
More bullpen games. More pitchers - more bullpen games. Eventually, less baseball players who want to be pitchers = lousy pitchers = better policies regarding the use of pitchers. It's really inevitable. Just get on with it.
Manfred whored out the game to speed it up & encourage pencil necked geeks to run again. Only a couple of pickoff attempts. Pitch clock. Bases that would make crazy Mike Lindell proud. Oven mitts. I'm not trying to take away from Ohtani's accomplishments. But base runners of yore had to deal with all these things (including not having the right to appeal umpire's poor decisions on whether the ball reached the base before the runner did. Not whether or not a tag was applied in time.) & so, to me, their accomplishments just seem more significant. Has Shohei hit over 50 homers? Yes. He has. Should the 50 SB's be considered alongside, say, Willie Mays, hitting 51 homers & stealing 24 bases in 1955? No. Or maybe on a PAR with Mays' 24 SB's. Let Mays run wild with these advantages & see what happens.
Now comes pitching. Faster. Faster. More spin. Arms blowing out. To me the logical solution to this would be to expand rosters to carry more pitchers. Don't expect pitchers to go more than 5.0 innings, maybe 20-25 times a season. MAYBE 20-25 times a season. Who do we have hurt right now? Glasnow, Stone, Ryan, Kershaw, Gonsolin on the way back, May, Buehler may never be the same again, Miller, Yamamoto (?), & Ohtani, that I can recall.
Instead of a 26-man active roster, maybe they can go to a 28-man roster. 29. Even 30. Right now (with September callups) the Dodgers have 28 men on their active roster. 14 are pitchers. Half to man one position. Just go with 30, for pitchers. For shortsighted owners, they might think they're not going to pay for that. That's not seeing the bigger picture. For every 5 million dollar reliever you add to the roster, you would be paying Tyler Glasnow & Yoshi Yamamoto less.
The natural consequence of this would be less & less players who want to be pitchers. Which would force Manfred (or some other pencil pusher) to somehow force organizations to stop abusing their pitchers. That benefits everyone. On September 22nd, there was one pitcher in all MLB with 200 innings pitched. Seth Lugo with 204.2. With 32 starts, he's averaging 6.1 innings per. How much SHOULD you invest in that?
More bullpen games. More pitchers - more bullpen games. Eventually, less baseball players who want to be pitchers = lousy pitchers = better policies regarding the use of pitchers. It's really inevitable. Just get on with it.
