Hot take? With the statcast revelations of the last few days, the gap between analytics community comprehension and front office comprehension will never be this big again, and reflective know-it-all analysts are about to get an awakening on how little they've known.

I actually buy the nats being supremely overrated in light of NEW INFORMATION re: scherzer and Strasburg. Plus their bullpen is largely a nonfactor. Plus dusty

U90.5 pretty juicy also in light of improvement in the rest of the division

Did you mean to say days or years?

Would anybody be up for splitting an MLB.tv account? The guy I usually pay isn't getting it this year. Used to split between 4 people so I just paid him 1/4 of the dues. Apparently you can use up to 5 devices at once so with 4 people as long as only 1 person uses a single device there are no issues and you have a bit of "wiggle room"

I've been sharing account with three other forum members the last two years without problems, will check with them first but am potentially interested

days.

I'd be interested too.

What the hell happened in the last few days?

Also, my MLB.tv subscription just autorenewed at $112.99. I use it on my phone and one streaming device, I guess there's room to split.

Basically, statcast made public a bunch of stats and initiatives (including a new version of WAR) that they're going to use to open up their data to the public. The teams previously had more exclusive access to the data and have pretty clearly been making transaction decisions based on something that wasn't previously available in the public sphere (base-level example: Jays' signing of Kendrys Morales made very little sense on a WAR basis, but statcast--particularly exit velocity-- likes him a lot more than WAR does). I'm guessing statcast was at the core of it.

edit to add: obviously, the teams are way ahead of the curve, but the internet hordes will start pooling resources now.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/statca...160500812.html
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/...-increase.html

Oh wow. I haven't heard about that, and I've been watching baseball for a week straight.

If I can watch ST games right now, does that mean it auto renewed?

I think it might - I'm not able to watch any games.

Just let me know what the plan is if you are open to splitting. I guess a 4 way split would be $28.25 and a 5 way would be $22.60. Not sure if there were any taxes involved. Also it would involve whoever is "hosting" the account sharing the username/pw ofc.

i haven't been charged by mlbtv for my auto-renewal because the card i was paying with expired. but i'm still able to watch all these spring training games and so i dont know what to do. leave it alone and hope they don't ever charge me?

their website ****ing sucks. can't find anywhere that tells me whether i'm a current premium subscriber or not.


edit: never mind finally found it. wasn't working on my phone but just tried on laptop and worked there. it says no longer a subscriber but still getting these spring training games for free.

Cruizn you wanna team up again?

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but the Padres plan on using Christian Bethancourt as a catcher pitcher and outfielder.

http://friarsonbase.com/2017/02/27/s...ed-experiment/

It is interesting, and the Padres are the perfect team to experiment with it.

The Yankees don't allow hair on your chin but they do allow a big orange clown wig to flow out of your hat, in the case of Clint Frazier.

That is an ugly dude.

Just got so blitzed and am so ****ing stoked for Israel v Korea in 45 minutes! Jason Marquis toeing the slab for the Israelis!

Reason #1141 why I miss living alone, I wanna ****ing shout for this ballgame! It thrills me that it is live in the middle of the night!


Anyone else excited?

Nah

Are you kidding? We've got T K Kim and Dae Ho Lee hitting 3-4! I love it!

Did bum ho make the team this year? I have his hanhwa jersey on my wall

i expect to see more of it going forward with how frequently pitching changes are made these days.not with a teams good players but with utility infielder back up catcher types.

i remember desi relaford pitching for the mets looking good on the mound and that was with no practice.

Cards and Pirates are going to play in Williamsport during the LLWS at the A ball park. How great would it be to see them play on a LL field. Although, a couple pitchers and infielders would probably die.