Expiring CBA/potential work stoppage (lockout p.18)

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Whoever hosted that interview should quit or be fired. Jesus. Why even bring the question up?

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I do think most fans are delusional about the money side and need a reality check. But there’s ways to do it…that was terrible.

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That interview was almost as bad as the Seattle GM a few years ago talking on a Zoom openly about sabotaging players with arb years, giving super personal deets from in the clubhouse, etc.

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TGantz wrote:
April 12 22, 2:40 pm
That interview was almost as bad as the Seattle GM a few years ago talking on a Zoom openly about sabotaging players with arb years, giving super personal deets from in the clubhouse, etc.
It was their president, not GM. Otherwise DiPoto would have been gone.

And it was during a rotary club event.

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Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris of The Athletic report that batted balls distances have decreased in 20 stadiums with newly-installed humidors this season.

Rosenthal and Sarris add that average exit velocities are at their highest levels of the Statcast era, which dates back to 2015, but league-wide home run rates this season have plummeted. A massive uptick in strikeouts has arguably been the largest contributor to a lower run-scoring environment, and it's also notable that the latest version of the actual baseball itself has produced higher drag (less fly ball carry) than previous editions. However, based on Statcast barrel data, it's the 20 stadiums with newly-installed humidors that have experienced the largest reductions in batted ball distance so far. The fact that it's been extremely dry in some of these ballparks appears to be the driving force behind the overall reduction in batted ball distance. That will change as temperatures and humidity rise as the season progresses, but fantasy managers shouldn't expect the league's run-scoring environment to drastically change moving forward. The baseball isn't exactly flying anymore due to a variety of factors.
Source: The Athletic
Apr 26, 2022, 9:46 AM ET

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Boo. More dingers. I like to have balls in play, but pop ups don't count.

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not sure it's new thread worthy but seemingly related.. ben at FG has an article about how bullpen construction around the league is also playing a part in the offensive decline
How Bigger Bullpens Are Constraining Offense
by Ben Clemens
April 26, 2022
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-bigger- ... g-offense/
One of the side bargains between the league and the MLBPA after this offseason’s lockout was for expanded rosters early in the season. Teams are allowed to roster 28 players throughout the month of April. On May 30, that number will revert to the standard 26 — this deadline was recently pushed back from May 1. In addition, teams can carry any number of pitchers on their roster until May 1. After that, they’ll be limited to 14, and 13 after May 29.

As you can imagine, teams have taken advantage of these expanded rosters and unlimited pitching allowances to stock up on arms. With starters throwing fewer innings, relievers would normally be heavily taxed, as filling in five innings a day is tough on a bullpen. Teams reacted accordingly; as of Friday, 26 of the 30 teams rostered 15 or more pitchers. There were as many teams with 16 pitchers as with 14. Managers might need multiple pages for a bullpen card these days; every team has an embarrassment of options.

Those extra relievers aren’t just in the bullpen marking time and performing sporadic mop-up duty. They’re out there chipping in, soaking up innings that would otherwise go to starters or gassed relievers. To wit: through Thursday, April 21, there had been 1,406 relief appearances in the 2022 season. Only 11.5% of them, 163 appearances, have been on zero days’ rest — either both sides of a doubleheader or back-to-back games. Last year, 17% of relief appearances were on no rest.
That doesn’t clear expanded rosters of culpability. Fewer back-to-back appearances might just be a drop in the bucket, but fewer innings by starters is a different matter entirely. Starters have been pretty good this year! They have an aggregate 4.07 ERA, which would be the lowest mark since 2013. They’re throwing harder than ever, and the humidor/ball combination seems to be leading to fewer home runs.

Relievers are pitching a lot better than that. They’re on pace for a season we haven’t seen in decades. Thus far, they’ve posted a 3.34 ERA. They’re striking out nearly a quarter of the batters they face. They almost certainly won’t keep it up; that’s not really how this works, so early in the season. If they did, though, we’d be looking at the lowest relief pitching ERA since 1968.

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Velocity is so high. Pitchers are getting better and better. Teams are smarter deploying them.

Lowering the mound again is a good start.

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Humidor ball sucks. 100+ EV but distance is down? Get out of here with that Manfred.

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According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, Major League Baseball will allow teams to carry 14 pitchers through June 19.

The prior revised plan called for all major league teams to trim the number of pitchers on their active roster down to 13 by May 30, but now there's going to be another grace period. This all of course stems from the 99-day MLB/MLBPA lockout, which led to an abbreviated spring training.
Source: Ken Rosenthal on Twitter
May 26, 2022, 3:32 PM ET

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