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View Poll Results: Who will win the 2022 World Series?

Dodgers +500

4 19.05%

Blue Jays +900

2 9.52%

Astros +1000

1 4.76%

White Sox +1100

1 4.76%

Braves +1200

1 4.76%

Yankees +1300

1 4.76%

Mets +1500

3 14.29%

Rays +1600

0 0%

Brewers +1600

0 0%

Someone else

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04-08-2022 , 05:10 PM

#26

Bidz

Hurts so good

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I take back everything bad I ever said about the extra innings ghost runner on 2nd lol

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04-08-2022 , 06:06 PM

#27

TJ Eckleburg12

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Originally Posted by txdome

Judge is as dumb as he looks. Dude is 29 and not a true baseball player, just a freak athlete. That won't play out well in a longer term contract.

If ONLY we had historical EXAMPLES of what happens to huge dudes when they age and lose a little batspeed!

Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, Prince Fielder, Chris Davis, etc etc etc. They all aged gracefully and hit like Hall of Famers well into their 30's, right?

Oh that's not what happened? hmmmmmmmmm...

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04-08-2022 , 06:18 PM

#28

SABR42

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Those guys were slow first basemen. Judge can pull off playing CF. Not the same.

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04-08-2022 , 06:32 PM

#29

txdome

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Judge hasn't fully proven that he can pull off being an all-star hitter multiple years in a row. Once you factor in D and Giancarlo, turning down that contract was full ******.

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04-08-2022 , 06:41 PM

#30

SABR42

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I agree he should have taken the offer. He's not young and hasn't always been healthy.

He has a 150 career OPS+ though and is a plus defender in RF, he's clearly one of the best players in baseball.

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04-08-2022 , 06:41 PM

#31

All-inMcLovin

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Originally Posted by Bidz

lol overpaid AL East pitchers*

* sample size 1 inning

Gerrit Cole was too pumped up for the game. They showed a clip of him game like super pumped up and ****.

You want your ACE pitcher with ice pumping through his veins, not adrenaline.

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Judge is as dumb as he looks. Dude is 29 and not a true baseball player, just a freak athlete. That won't play out well in a longer term contract.

Judge is incredibly dumb for not locking in that ever so delicious contract.

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ec I'm McLovin' that pic!

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04-08-2022 , 06:44 PM

#32

SABR42

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Also Stanton's homerun was a thing of beauty. 116 mph low-angle laser to the opposite field. No one else can hit a homerun like that.

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04-08-2022 , 07:39 PM

#33

All-inMcLovin

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Cole was super pumped up ***pre-game.

You can’t pitch well like that. He’s really not mature for a 31 year old iyam.

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04-08-2022 , 07:42 PM

#34

All-inMcLovin

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Originally Posted by SABR42

Also Stanton's homerun was a thing of beauty. 116 mph low-angle laser to the opposite field. No one else can hit a homerun like that.

I concur. He basically just fisted that ****er out with pure strength and expert technique.

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04-08-2022 , 08:02 PM

#35

72off

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oh no, the jays suck again

well,,,,, see ya next year!

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04-08-2022 , 08:08 PM

#36

StoppedRainingMen

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Giants season starts the same way 2021 went

Victory by LOLWTF

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04-08-2022 , 09:43 PM

#37

72off

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update: lol rag$, 7-7 in the 6th now

real geddy lee in the house

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04-08-2022 , 10:52 PM

#38

72off

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not impossible the jays just decide to score 10+ runs every game

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04-08-2022 , 11:17 PM

#39

TJ Eckleburg12

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not impossible the jays just decide to score 10+ runs every game

They just might

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04-08-2022 , 11:18 PM

#40

grando1.0

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Plus they don't have that cuck Bautista or Letterkenny walk on Donaldson to wreck it for them

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04-09-2022 , 07:58 AM

#41

housenuts

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What a comeback by the Jays. Was at the game. Was very depressing first few innings.

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04-09-2022 , 09:36 AM

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thebigeasy59

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Also Stanton's homerun was a thing of beauty. 116 mph low-angle laser to the opposite field. No one else can hit a homerun like that.

Joke Stadium. Probably a single in 29 other parks.

https://twitter.com/would_it_dong/st...98098701963264

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tbf Pujols was like 37 when he signed in ANA

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04-09-2022 , 11:32 AM

#43

Da_Nit

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Joke Stadium. Probably a single in 29 other parks.

https://twitter.com/would_it_dong/st...98098701963264

tbf Pujols was like 37 when he signed in ANA

Like the exhaust on the Death Star? Evil empires gonna evil empire.

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04-09-2022 , 12:20 PM

#44

candybar

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Originally Posted by TJ Eckleburg12

Prince Fielder is a weird comp for Aaron Judge - like they are on the opposite ends of the spectrum here, in terms of their body type and development. Also, I'd think the lack of athleticism would be more of a factor here than size and Aaron Judge is a top-notch athlete. Also Pujols is reportedly 3 years older than he's listed (so he did fine in his 30's), Howard was realistically more of a platoon player at the MLB level and Chris Davis was never really that good start with.

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04-09-2022 , 01:21 PM

#45

txdome

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Who is the longest lasting good giant outfielder? Dave Winfield?

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04-09-2022 , 03:20 PM

#46

candybar

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I think this is a reasonable way to think about things:

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives...ging_curve.php

In short, bigger players age slightly worse than smaller players, but the effect seems to be more around the regression to the mean and is much smaller than, for example, bad defenders aging worse than good defenders, good hitters aging worse than bad hitters, low strikeout hitters aging worse than high strikeout hitters and high-walk hitters aging worse than low-walk hitters.