2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

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Reyes thing was 100% dickbag Wilpons still bothers me

the Cruz stuff, first time around, he didn't want to be in Citi he wanted to go somewhere easy to hit homers to prove he's capable post PEDs. second time around i'm fairly certain it's the Wilpons saying, spend X dollar amount max which never gave us a shot with Cruz.
 
Ah, that explains about Cruz playing for a different team. Well, good for him.

Wilpons :x So we have to deal with Wilpons and Dolan for next 10-20 years? :lol:
 
JohnnyRedStorm said:
Cuddy needs to step it up. Love the guy as a veteran presence and he's a good influence, blue collar guy, but he's gotta do his job. We need him to bat over .300. And Murph, if you're not gonna field, you better hit and he's not doing either right now.
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His whole career, Cuddy was the guy you explained above, except the last two years are strange to me as he was never a .300 hitter. Somewhere in the .280's was the highest I remember, but he was always hovering around that mark. Last two years, he was well above .300 and I almost want to say that Coors Field was a big reason for that. Maybe his age has caught up to him, but while I don't think he's a .300 guy anymore, he should at least be in the .260 range.
 
yeah definitely coors field influence. i'll take .280 and some good situational hitting. we just need something out of him. i'm almost more inclined to try and upgrade 2nd than short. unless we can get javy baez and take the chance that he does what he can do.
 
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DiMaggio hit .408 during the streak (91-for-223), with 15 home runs and 55 RBIs.

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DiMaggio hit .408 during the streak (91-for-223), with 15 home runs and 55 RBIs.

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It could be more than 15 home runs..

DiMaggio might have had better power-hitting statistics had his home park not been Yankee Stadium. As "The House That Ruth Built", its nearby right field favored the Babe's left-handed power. For right-handed hitters, its deep left and center fields made home runs almost impossible. Mickey Mantle recalled that he and ****** Ford witnessed many DiMaggio blasts that would have been home runs anywhere other than Yankee Stadium. (Ruth himself fell victim to that problem, as he also hit many long fly outs to center). Bill James calculated that DiMaggio lost more home runs due to his home park than any other player in history. Left-center field went as far back as 457 ft [139 m], where left-center rarely reaches 380 ft [116 m] in today's ballparks. Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in the 1947 World Series, which was close to the 415-foot mark [126 m] in left-center, would have been a home run in the Yankees' current ballpark. DiMaggio hit 148 home runs in 3,360 at-bats at home versus 213 home runs in 3,461 at-bats on the road. His slugging percentage at home was .546, and on the road, it was .610. Expert statistician Bill Jenkinson made a statement on these statistics:

For example, Joe DiMaggio was acutely handicapped by playing at Yankee Stadium. Every time he batted in his home field during his entire career, he did so knowing that it was physically impossible for him to hit a home run to the half of the field directly in front of him. If you look at a baseball field from foul line to foul line, it has a 90-degree radius. From the power alley in left center field (430 in Joe's time) to the fence in deep right center field (407 ft), it is 45-degrees. And Joe DiMaggio never hit a single home run over the fences at Yankee Stadium in that 45-degree graveyard. It was just too far. Joe was plenty strong; he routinely hit balls in the 425-foot range. But that just wasn't good enough in cavernous Yankee Stadium. Like Ruth, he benefited from a few easy homers each season due to the short foul line distances. But he lost many more than he gained by constantly hitting long fly outs toward center field. Whereas most sluggers perform better on their home fields, DiMaggio hit only 41 percent of his career home runs in the Bronx. He hit 148 homers at Yankee Stadium. If he had hit the same exact pattern of batted balls with a typical modern stadium as his home, he would have belted about 225 homers during his home field career.
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DiMaggio was such a beast.
 
Friend of mine who isn't into sports met Joey d growing up and had an autographed baseball wound up buying it off him for a bargain :lol:
 
basically :lol: he threw in a jeter autographed ball as well. just couldnt pass up the offer despite not caring about the yankees.
 
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love this stuff man. i grabbed a kershaw autographed ball during mlb's black friday sale last year for a bargain.
 
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I'll be the proud owner of a Dallas Kuechel gnome tomorrow :lol: :lol: :lol:

One of my dad's vendors hooked me up with seats right behind the plate for finishing the semester :pimp:
 
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