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AvatarDan Szymborski
3:47
Robinson's status as breaking the color line kinda causes people to forget the baseball stuff
I actually think that MLB should make more of an effort to also cover the REST of the guys who broke the color barrier.
3:48
it's a shame that relatively few people known Larry Doby and much fewer know Hank Thompson or Willard Brown
But they all endured the same horrors as Robinson did
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:48
amen
Guest
3:49
Why does MLB schedule baseball games in MIN in April?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:49
because it can't be avoided. you can't place a team at that much of a disadvantage and again, there just aren't enough warm-weather or climate-controlled venues to avoid cold weather games in April
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:49
This is going to come out the wrong way I'm sure, but there's a tendency on some baseball fans to act like Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and then everything became fine.
Gerald
3:49
Fully agreed on all the rest of the pioneers. Not that he was precisely the same time, but I am considering, if we have a second son, naming him Elston.
Farhandrew Zaidman
3:49
Hot take: the strike zone is a three-dimensional box, not a two-dimensional plane. A curveball that clips the bottom of the zone and bounces before being caught is ABSOLUTELY a strike. /rant
Gerald
3:49
No, Dan, you're right. Very "MLK fixed everything" vibe.
AvatarDavid Laurila
3:50
I was talking to a front-office type earlier today, and season-length came up. I can see value in starting around this time of year — not in late March — and going back to the old 154-game schedule.
Ron
3:50
Should MLB make the season less than 162 games?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:50
I think it results in a real oversimplification of baseball's color line being broken
Morbo
3:50
Huh Joe Torre is in St Louis for opening day
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:51
This is me going out on a limb but he's probably not playing 3B for the Cardinals this year.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:50
You can look at polls in the *90s* and still see "overrated" players being a bunch of black players and "underrated" players being shitty short white dudes
Morbo
3:51
Roy Campanella is also super underrated. If you look at his caught stealing rates and massive difference between the number of players who tried to steal against him vs other contemporary catchers. It's just crazy. Plus he hit super well and started playing in the negro national League at 15(that is not a typo)
Gerald
3:51
You should see (except not really) the comments under the MLBTradeRumors post on Sabathia's new job with the league. Yikes.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:51
Pass! lol
RTJ
3:51
Suzuki hit alert!
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:51
Suzuki's first major league hit is a single off Corbin Burnes, nice work
RTJ
3:52
more people should also know that Boston was the last team to integrate
AvatarDavid Laurila
3:52
Isn’t that common knowledge? It’s been brought up countless times over the years.
Tim
3:52
What’s the best fangraphs username you’ve ever encountered?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:52
hmmmm
there's a great one that's on the tip of my tongue
Doug Lampert
3:52
Hey, those short white dudes are all "gritty". (Didn't someone say that based on observation, gritty requires at least 2 out of short, white, and always has dirt on his uniform by the end of the day).
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:54
I think Red Sox being last to integrate is known among serious baseball fan, but I doubt most other people know
Joe
3:54
Dan where are these polls?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:54
The 2000s SI poll would be a good place to search, IIRC. It has been awhile
Also, something like 6% of major leaguers picked Babe Ruth as the greatest living player
727
3:55
I moved to Columbus, OH 2 years ago and I'm a diehard Rays fan from 11 years in TB.  How long until I must switch allegiances and become a Guardians fan?
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:55
Check with Columbus' own Craig Calcaterra.
AvatarDavid Laurila
3:56
I don’t know about best FanGraphs usernames, but a Red Sox message board has a longtime member who goes by ToeKneeArmAss.
Nick
3:56
Jay, Pujols hit 17 HRs last year, and the Dodgers still did okay; I don't think 21 HRs is out of the question even if St. Louis plans to compete.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:57
Five of those came with the Angels, and I don't think he's repeating a 6% home run rate. Even that would require 350 PA to get to 21.
Eno Sarris' Sandwhich Induced Nightmares
3:56
I thought the oxford definition of "gritty" was Dustin Pedroia?
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:57
I'm thinking more the Scott Podsedniks
Fixing Baseball
3:57
I would like more show boating. Give me big bat flips. Shit talking between players. I want more drama and storyline.
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