Yeah, they should just limeytard it up with giant bank and airline logos.

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MLB will add the Negro Leagues to its official records

from the article:

"more than 3,400 players from 7 leagues that operated between 1920 and 1948 will now be considered major leaguers in a move that will shake up record books"

Josh Gibson will be awarded the single season record for batting average as he batted .441 for multiple Negro league teams in 1943


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/s...gtype=Homepage

Manfred and those other dumb**** MLB execs ****ing up again imo.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...-black-players

They should have kept them separate as well as removing stats from pre integration MLB from the records and called that era "The Ignorance League"

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the link is to Google Image - some great pics of the Negro League
Google gets a lot of criticism - maybe it's deserved - but wow - they do deliver

https://www.google.com/search?q=negr...w=1745&bih=852

I didn't know there were so many different leagues.

I read an interesting Howard Bryant article (I don't recall if that's the one quoted in txdome's post, which I found independently as well. I think not but I'm stoned) pontificating that in 100+ years, those generations won't realize the travesty that was the Negro Leagues, because those stats will have been part of MLB for their entire lives. And this is baseball trying to absolve itself in future opinion.

Insider Trading Money buys more wins than Ponzi Scheme Money any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

How about..

The Cleveland Major Leaguers

or

The Cleveland Wild Things

Wondering if anyone can help out with some math. Say a (theoretical) player had a 100% z-swing rate and a 0% chase rate, assuming robot umps. 0 "bad" swings and 0 "bad" takes. If his contact rate were league average (i.e. we'd use zone-contact rate and not overall contact rate), he'd make contact with ~87% of swings.
41.2% of pitches were rulebook strikes this year.
27.8% of total strikes were fouls in 2019, so consider that for 2-strike fouls. vs. 2-strike whiffs. Assume an equal distribution of fouls across 0-strike, 1-strike and 2-strike counts (even though there are more 2-strike fouls than 0/1 strike fouls). I realize that there are O-swings and Z-swings making up that number, but whatever.

How often should this player walk? Do we have enough info?

Probably at least 40.

This made me think of the Sopranos episode where Artie is trying to convince Charmaine it's a good idea to go into business with Tony selling Vesuvio's sauce retail, and Charmaine says, "they won't even let you use the Vesuvio name!"

Artie says, market research shows that product names starting with a V turn the public off because of the vaginal connotation.

Padres getting Blake Snell. Seems like a win-win Pads get a middle of the rotation starter and the Rays reload AGAIN.

I've always thought the perfect time to blow it up is just after losing the world series in six

Snell put a clause in his new contract not to pull him when he's owning in the WS

Snell is a smelly fart playing on borrowed time and a creepy stache.

Love this trade for Tampa. Who did they get? Also who did they give up?

He's the oldest 28 year old in baseball.

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R.I.P. - Phil Niekro who just passed
nicknamed "Knucksie" he was probably the greatest knuckleballer in MLB history
it's fun to look back at his mastery of this crazy pitch
at 0:43 in the vid a bamboozled batter falls to the ground trying to hit it..........................................(-:\

Padres going for Darvish too. Aj Preller is not ****ing around.

I appreciate the effort, but the Darvish move is a dud. Snell and Yu are good for some depth, but ain't gonna get a rang.

I gotta say.....I love the analytic side and lol at the old men yelling at clouds but Tampa’s approach is completely joyless

I realize there’s edge to be had but there’s no fun in this at all

Official.

Pads are gonna be sick.

Really wish the White Sox would have been in on either guy.

why aren't teams lining up to sign Masahiro Tanaka to a contract?

This is definitely the kind of trade someone who isn’t Theo Epstein would make for the cubs

Lol cubs also threw in caratini

Cubs got assrammed

Probably afraid of his elbow.