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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · Aug 1

I will say this again and again until the cap fetishists get it. There is a 1:1 correlation between "leagues that have broken their unions" and "leagues with a payroll cap." Let that be a clue as to who wins in a cap system.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder what Jays TT under 1.5 was four batters into the game.

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 9h

What a weird game that ended up being.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 10h

Another Mariners playoff game in which it feels like they should have twice as many runs as they have. We'll see if it bites them.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 4d

Leadoff doubles are the real rally killers.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 11h

Where will they put the Jorge Polanco statue?

Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 12h

You will pay for that Barry Bonnell disrespect.

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 20h

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

A bullpen game backed by three solo homers. I love that for all the wrong reasons.

Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first year since 2018 in which no wild-card team reached the LCS round. It is just the second time since 2012, when MLB added two wild cards, that the LCS round will include just division champs.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 1d

okay so NOW I dont feel so stupid for thinking that USC was good, actually

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Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 1d

What a statement and what a night for USC.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

i know they stuck a new rule in to keep guys from running into left field, but that really is a spot where Perkins has to treat it like a first-to-third rather than a force. Run through the bag and turn for third. Costs you nothing and may steal a run.

Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

It moves the needle enough. Thanks for looking it up.

Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

People have been complaining no one hits .300 any more…

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

I‘m going to write about this over the winter, but r/HR% is one of many stats we need to start calculating only in the first nine innings. It will naturally decline a lot with free leadoff doubles.

It’s not my job, but I wish baseball/Calvinball was a standard split.

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when not covering the spread was James Franklin’s biggest problem?

Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 1d

I think they’re acknowledging their collective starting pitching is as deep as a Family Circus comic.

Jordan Bastian @bastianmlb.bsky.social · 1d

“I think both sides are acknowledging that the first inning has been pretty big in this series.” —Counsell, on Pomeranz and Megill being openers in Game 5

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

the goal is to play baseball, not end the game, sorry

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2d

This is part of why I like the regular season extra runner because .. in theory, extra inning games that go on very long sounds fun, but in practice, they all just start to look like *this.*