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Jake Cave
10:41
If they got punished, would it be less of a discussion now?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:41
If they were in a position to get punished, we might never have gotten an investigation
Lily
10:41
Just don't pull a "Jack Morris in 2021" in any year.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:41
Or any off-field Jack Morris
AvatarDavid Laurila
10:42
Babe Ruth threw a 14-inning complete-game win in the World Series.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:43
My favorite Ruth fun fact is that he mas a higher career pitching postseason WPA than hitting postseason WPA.
10:45
That game was the highest WPA game in postseason history
Art Nehf, of all people, has two of the top 10
(among pitchers)
AvatarAlex Sonty
10:46
Talkin about the one-run game where everyone was left on base?
Roach
10:46
Babe Ruth was also caught stealing to end the WS
BigDaddeh
10:46
in fangraphs existed in 1920, contrarian posters would be talking about how what he was doing wasn't as impressive as home run baker
AvatarDavid Laurila
10:46
I just bounced over to Twitter to mention that Lindy McDaniel had a really good career. You're excused if you're not familiar with him.
Art Nehf
10:46
You bet your balls I do
Guest
10:46
I am of the theory that Astros players didn’t get punished because MLB knew full well other orgs were doing it and how do you pretend that wasn’t happening and punish the Astros players at the same time. MLB split the baby to make it go away, which makes no one happy (because halving babies is frowned upon)
AvatarDavid Laurila
10:47
This is not an unreasonable take.
Guest
10:47
Do you find it surprising that James Dansby Swanson apparently voluntarily goes by Dansby, rather than James or JD?
RTJ
10:47
Here's a Random Hypothetical: If you were in charge of a new expansion MLB team and could choose any MLB team's current manager to start developing your new team, who you going with?
AvatarAlex Sonty
10:47
I don't know, but Ricky Renteria is on the list
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:47
I like Dansby Swanson, it sounds like a Great Gatsby character
AvatarDavid Laurila
10:47
A.J. Hinch.
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:47
Nowhere near as weird as David Jonathan "JD" Drew
Kate Mitchell
10:48
No one will ever match the Old Hoss "pitch every inning of a World Series sweep" though.
AvatarAlex Sonty
10:48
Hinch could be the answer. I found him a bit erratic with his lineups this year, but if there's a time to go nuts....
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:48
It's more impressive that he tweets 120 years after his death
AvatarDavid Laurila
10:49
Christy Mathewson throwing three shutouts in six days is the best World Series pitching performance ever.
AvatarAlex Sonty
10:50
Doesn't this all just saying that hitting kinda sucked?
BigDaddeh
10:51
didn't oil can boyd admit to using crack every day for the 86 season? he didn't pitch great during the WS that year, but all things considered thats pretty impressive
AvatarAlex Sonty
10:51
Regularly getting owned the ninth time through the order
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:51
If he really did it every day, it is pretty impressive
ChuckNChino
10:51
Agreed with Mathewson -- Kofax on short rest was pretty good too.
The 6ix
10:51
How do you think those pitchers of yesteryear would fare in today’s game?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:51
They'd largely be used like pitchers are today
pitchers go max effort now
Jeremy
10:52
If Correa leaves, do the Astros try Bregman at SS next year?
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:52
No
AvatarDavid Laurila
10:52
There's an Oil Can Boyd autobiography that came out a few years ago that I haven't read, and I really need to.
Guest
10:53
Would you really run Koufax out there for 5 and 2/3 innings and then go to, e.g., Joe Kelly so Koufax *gasp* doesn't have to face the top of the order a third time?
AvatarAlex Sonty
10:53
I'd keep Koufax in until his arm fell off
AvatarDan Szymborski
10:53
But you can't truly transport the context of the times they pitched in
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