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The Process

4:23

Great book, I read the whole thing, and my competitors should not.

Paul Sporer

4:23

I got it this offseason & then had to face the damn authors in my Main lol

cool

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laughing

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Stats5

4:23

O's fan since 68...been a rough stretch last few years. Good to watch a team that doesn't suck. Elias says investment is coming....should we be players in the Rodon, Correa markets with GRod, Westburg, Ortiz at the ready?

Paul Sporer

4:24

Rodon is precisely who I have in mind for them as they continue to follow the Seattle-but-1-yr-behind path

The future is very bright for Baltimore, especially since they won't have 200 gms a yr v. the division, too!

Jeff Zimmerman

4:24

I think they need a lockdown bullpen

4:25

Their starters are decent and cold make it five with a lead and they have a bullpen finish the game

Paul Sporer

4:27

Yeah bullpen is always the final piece of building a squad, IMO, so they have a few pieces to work with and should be able to cultivate a few more next year as they continue their ascent

4:29

(Their pen was pretty good this year, but it was control-based for the most part)

Stats5

4:29

Agree...love the balanced schedule. Finally.

Jeff Zimmerman

4:29

Form the cost, a bullpen and as many bats as possible

Stats5

4:29

Our bullpen was fantastic, but its always iffy year to year. Love the job from Mountain post-Lopez, and Cionel seems real, Baker too. All three are trash heap saves.

Paul Sporer

4:30

Bautista will be in my top 10 closers next year for sure

Jeff Zimmerman

4:31

Bautista might be the last safe closer

4:32

Last game of the season

Gotta lay out for the foul ball

Steals

4:33

Are we gonna need 200 steals to win roto next year?

Paul Sporer

4:33

OMG that hurts just watching it

Jeff Zimmerman

4:33

He's going to have a couple bruises

4:35

I looked into some numbers a few weeks back and think numbers might be up 30%, I'm not sure how. It could be everyone up 30% or everyone up x amount pushing up

Paul Sporer

4:35

Will the bigger bases cause you to change the SB projections at all, Jeff?

Jeff Zimmerman

4:37

No ... all pitch clock. Runners can time the jumps

Paul Sporer

4:38

Yeah that's gonna be dope

Safe Closer

4:38

Up there with Keyser Soze.

Jeff Zimmerman

4:39

https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/with-aaa-pitch-clock-stolen-base-major-l...

Paul Sporer

4:40

I hear you, but the top 10 were pretty safe this year. Even with Hader's 2H ERA, he still got 36 SVs. Basically 8 of the 10 panned out with Aroldis Chapman & Giovanny Gallegos being the only major busts. Raisel Iglesias needed to be replaced, but not due to performance. (Top 10: Hader, Hendriks, Raisel, Pressly, Clase, Diaz, Chapman, Jansen, Romano, Gallegos)

Safe Closer

4:42

Well played. I personally play S+H so no reason to reach for saves (it's the best format).

Freddie Freeman

4:42

I'm making the batting title race interesting.

Paul Sporer

4:43

2-2 up to .325 with McNeil & his .326 sitting!

Jeff Zimmerman

4:44

I'll need to decide if I will go with an early 1B. I went 3B everytime (Dever and Machado) over the 1B (Vlad and Freeman)

Paul Sporer

4:45

What do you make of Devers 2H fall off?

Machado was pretty great!

Stats5

4:46

Judge 62 is the AL record....narrative that its the "true" ML record disregards reality. Agree?

Paul Sporer

4:46

Yes, it is beyond stupid

Jeff Zimmerman

4:47

It just brings in traffic, that's all. And there are a ton of opinion-filled New Yorkers

Paul Sporer

4:47

Yeah just trying to make the uninteresting interesting

His season was elite and was tons of fun to watch, but pretending this AL record has any real meaning is silly

Stats5

4:48

"Beyond stupid" was what I wanted to say, but its not my chat. :)

Paul Sporer

4:48

Jeff Zimmerman

4:49

Back in a bit, I have to find some food for my kids.

Stats5

4:49

I've been trying to get my league go to S+H, but they insist on keeping BOTH categories. Winner of Holds normally has, like 12. LOL....dumb as hell.

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