This ESPN blurb lists three relatively minor rule changes for the upcoming season. Here's the highlights
- Coaches and managers are now allowed to bring an interpreter when conferencing with a pitcher. The article implies that this rule is mostly due to Yu Darvish.
- Due to the recent trend in teams having two hitting coaches, teams may now have seven managers in uniform instead of six.
- You can't fake a throw to third and throw to first anymore. It is now a balk.
These aren't official yet because the player's union needs to ratify them, but I don't see any snags in the future. The union previously shot down the balk change to discuss it, but should probably pass it. It's not like the move is ever succesful anyway. The owners can unilaterally implement it if they want, but would prefer not to piss off the players.
Oh thank goodness.
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When looking at Sosa and McGwire gotta give the edge to sosa. He was 100% a more well rounded player. ibho
Having said that they really both should be in for what they did for baseball
@ bubblesdachimp:
Agreed.
David Haugh @DavidHaugh
According to one candidate who didn’t get Bears job, he was told Emery will bring in 2 finalists to Halas Hall beginning tomorrow.
Trestman and Touchdown Seahawks OC are the two. I trust the process
Yeah, if it’s the Hall of Fame, you can’t keep out one of the most famous players in baseball history, especially one who is fringe-qualified to get in on stats alone. He’s not “first-ballot,” if that bullshit saying has any merit, and he’s definitely in the lower half of hall of famers, but (excepting the other PED Era guys) tell me a single player that’s not in the hall that is better than Sammy Sosa. There are PLENTY of guys in the Hall worse than Sosa.
@ bubblesdachimp:
People forget that McGwire was greater for a longer period of time. McGwire produced nearly 30 WAR with Oakland before Sosa had his breakout year in 93
Sammy Sosa is Jim Rice + 200 HR, 10 WAR, and a better fielder.
Berselius wrote:
Mark McGwire was stupidly, stupidly good, and his 7th place finish in the 1996 MVP voting was one of the greatest WTF moments in my memory
Sosa has more WAR then McGwire…
@ bubblesdachimp:
According to what measure? B-War has him at 54.8 to McGwire’s 58.7 and Fangraphs has it 64.1 to 70.6 in favor of McGwire. It’s still way closer than I thought, but still.
i thought baseball had mac at like 54.8 and sosa was at like 66.1..
Bubbs might be bad at math/looking
@ Myles:
Juan Gone had more RBI and a better team, I guess. But that was a silly year. Griffey or A-Rod should’ve won.
I like Marc Trestman a pretty good deal, but he’d almost certainly need a really good DC because he’s got almost no experience coaching defense in over 20 years of coaching (only as HC of Alouettes, who have a poor CFL DEFENSE). He seems like he’s going to get a chance to coach but I don’t love him as the Bears HC unless Marinelli or a similar talent stays. Bevell is similar. Out of the two, I might actually like Trestman more. It’s hard to speculate, though, and I’m sure they have a much better feel.
Rice Cube wrote:
A-Rod had arguably the best performance of the past 10 years, for a shortstop, that year (also defensively incredible at the position). Ken Griffey had the best season of his entire career at CF. Mark McGwire led the majors in slugging by 83 points, the gap between #2 and #15. Instead, they gave the MVP to a RF butcher who arguably wasn’t even the best AL RF that year (Manny Ramirez). All for RBI. It was awful.
@ Myles:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1996.shtml
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Juan-Gon tied for 18th best WAR. Holy shit.
@ GBTS:
Gonzalez must have been epically shitty defensively to post at .314/.368/.643 line and only have 3.5 WAR (dying laughing).
So is this the main thread now or do we need a post about aside posts (dying laughing)
@ WaLi:
That’s why the good lord, Al Gore, invented tabbed browsing. Specifically to follow multiple OVBlog threads.
this should be a fanshot