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I noticed a lot of people did that in my drafts. I only did that in one of my leagues where I took a pitcher in the first 3 rounds because its a h2h points style league where pitchers get 7 points for a win. I've won that style of league before and it pays to have strong pitching. We'll see what happens with the way pitchers will be handled this year SP might be overvalued.Originally Posted by stevenash
Mookie Betts stays with the Dodgers on a 12 year $365M extension.
I hate that he plays for the Dodgers but good for him he's a great player and deserved to get paid.
The Blue Jays plan to activate standout pitching prospect Nate Pearson on July 29, Jamie Campbell of Sportsnet reports. Pearson is not on the Blue Jays’ 40-man roster, which is currently full.
Toronto will gain an extra year of control over Pearson by keeping him off its roster during the first week of its season. So, considering the league’s rules on service time, it’s no surprise that the team will open its schedule without the 23-year-old right-hander. But Pearson may wind up as a game-changing addition to the Blue Jays’ roster when he does make his debut, and perhaps someone who could challenge for American League Rookie of the Year honors.
The flamethrowing Pearson joined Toronto as the 28th overall pick in the 2017 draft and has proven himself an elite farmhand since then (MLB.com ranks him first in the team’s system and No. 8 in the sport, for instance). Pearson made his debut in Triple-A last year with 18 innings of 3.00 ERA ball, but he spent most of his season in Double-A, recording a terrific 2.59 ERA/2.90 FIP with 9.91 K/9 and 3.02 BB/9 over 62 2/3 frames. Pearson also acquitted himself well during spring training this year, as he held hitters to a paltry .194 batting average and totaled 16 strikeouts against five walks in 10 2/3 innings before the sport shut down.
If Pearson does come up and make a serious impact in 2020, Toronto could have an enviable duo atop its rotation with him and left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu – an $80MM offseason pickup who finished as the National League Cy Young runner-up as a Dodger in 2019. Until Pearson makes his first start and Chase Anderson returns from the injured list, though, the Blue Jays appear likely to fill out their rotation with Tanner Roark, Matt Shoemaker, Trent Thornton and Ryan Borucki behind Ryu.
Mind boggling in this climate
We got real games today fellas
Finally, looking forward to itWe got real games today fellas
I got me a SD Padre pitcher on my fantasy team in a late round steal.We got real games today fellas
Guess which one?
Late round? Lamet or Richards probably.
Joey Lucchesi in the 26th round.
Betts would have got another 100 million if he was white. Too soon?
He might not even be in the rotation. Him and Quantril are battling for the 5th starter spot.
Nope, another oppressed black man living out his dream and making millions.
Here we go....
Leave it to rain stopping the first game of 2020. Makes perfect sense that's how we'd get started. At least I won my ML wager on the Yankees. My bet on the total was refunded for both the Yankees game and Giants/Dodgers game thanks to the pitching change in the nightcap and rain shortening the opener.
All first- and second-place teams in the six divisions qualify, with the division winners slotting in as each league's top three seeds. In addition to the three second-place teams in each league, the seventh and eighth seeds will go to the remaining teams in each league with the best records. Tie-breakers will be set up so that no additional games will be necessary. Those details are still to be determined.
The first-round matchups will be best-of-three series with all three games played in the higher seed's ballpark. From there, things pick up as usual, with the division round a best-of-five, and the league championship series and World Series both best-of-seven.
Which teams benefit the most from the new format?
Bradford Doolittle: 1. Bad teams that get lucky. 2. Mediocre teams that play mediocre. 3. Good teams that are unlucky, whether it's by a spate of injuries or one-run losses.
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David Schoenfield: Well, besides the teams that otherwise wouldn't have made the playoffs, the team that jumps out to me is the Rays. While it's not inconceivable that they can win the AL East, the most likely scenario is a second-place finish and what would have been relegation to the wild-card game -- which no teams want. Now they can throw out Charlie Morton, Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell in a short series -- and no team will want to face that trio.
Dan Mullen: I see two distinct teams helped most by this format: 1) Offense-first teams with top-end talent that might not have the depth to win a division but have a few players who could get really hot and carry them in the playoffs, and 2) teams with a couple of aces who can get them into the postseason and then dominate in a format with even more winner-take-all showdowns.
In the first category, I'd include the White Sox, with impact bats such as Eloy Jimenez and Luis Robert capable of going off at the right time, and the Angels, who could be a really tough out if the new format allows Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and Anthony Rendon to play in October.
And in the second, how about the Indians and Cardinals? Both teams have some serious starting pitching but weren't locks to get to the postseason -- and they just saw their odds of getting there improve greatly.
Which teams get hurt the most?
Doolittle: Elite teams. The teams best built to dominate just saw title probabilities already degraded by the short season further eroded by a format change.
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Schoenfield: The Dodgers. More chances for Kenley Jansen to blow a crucial game in a short series or for Dave Roberts to bring Clayton Kershaw out of the bullpen instead. I kid, Dodgers fans, I kid! I would say the teams that would have ended up as the No. 1 seed in both leagues -- with the Dodgers and Yankees the favorites to do that. In the old format, they would face the winner of the wild-card game in a best-of-five series, but that winner likely would have used its ace to move on (and maybe even used its No. 2 starter in relief, like the Nationals did with Stephen Strasburg in last year's wild-card game). Now the No. 1 seed is more likely to face its opponent's ace in the first game.
Mullen: The Big Three (Dodgers, Yankees, Astros). Remember when the Nationals got hot and beat the Dodgers and Astros last October? Remember when the Giants rode their pitching at the right time as a wild-card champion in 2014? Of course you do. Well now we're adding even more teams that could get hot at the right time and knock the superteams out. This isn't quite March Madness, but it could very well be an upset-filled October.
What is your 16-team playoff field?
Doolittle: AL: Yankees, Astros, Twins, A's, Rays, White Sox, Indians, Angels
NL: Dodgers, Nationals, Cardinals, Braves, Padres, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Reds
Schoenfield: AL: Rays, Twins, Astros, Yankees, Indians, A's, Angels, White Sox
NL: Nationals, Reds, Dodgers, Braves, Diamondbacks, Mets, Cubs, Brewers
Mullen: AL: Astros, Yankees, Twins, Rays, A's, Indians, Angels, White Sox.
NL: Dodgers, Braves, Reds, Brewers, Mets, Nationals, D-backs, Padres.
Gut reaction: Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Doolittle: My brain and my suddenly uneasy gut both tell me that the one saving grace of the format is that all of baseball's legitimate contenders should land a playoff slot. But the path for all of them to survive the bracket has become even more subsumed by randomness. Given the cluster of teams around the middle of the pack in baseball and the existing 10-team format, we were probably already going to have 20 to 25 teams hanging in the race into the last week. I don't why we'd want more faux contenders than that. Oooo ... it's a red-hot race for the No. 8 seed between the 27-29 Reds and the 26-30 Mets!
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Alas, as much as I hate the idea of expanded playoffs, I'm enough of a realist to understand why the chance to recover lost revenue is too much to pass up -- for this season. It would be terrible for this format to remain in place for a normal, 162-game season.
Schoenfield: The wild-card game, while exciting, has always been a flawed way to determine moving on in the postseason -- one and done in baseball is no way to treat a team that has sweated for 162 games to make the postseason and may not even get a home game. Maybe we go back to that (I hope not), but in this season it makes sense to experiment and let more teams in. I don't know if a 16-team postseason -- like the NBA and NHL have -- is the future, but this will be a good test run to see if fans and players like it.
Mullen: This is a GOOD thing. It might feel like a bit of a scramble in 2020, but what doesn't? Overall, adding more teams to the field means more excitement in October and more teams in the race for the majority of the season, which will boost interest in a lot of markets come September.
How does the playoff expansion to 16 teams affect the MLB betting markets?
We asked ESPN gambling expert Doug Kezirian to weigh in with his betting perspective here.
Kezirian: The most direct impact is felt by sportsbooks that offered Yes/No proposition bets on each MLB team to make the playoffs. Some books allowed bettors to wager on any team to either make or miss the playoffs. Clearly now, the "Yes" wagers have a stronger likelihood of hitting and the "No" wagers are less likely to cash. William Hill director of trading Nick Bogdanovich said those tickets are still valid because there was no fine print about a 10-team playoff format. That also applies for all division, pennant and World Series futures tickets across all sports books.
Once the report surfaced on Wednesday, some sportsbooks took down their future odds. This new expanded format could benefit some long shot tickets. With a dominant division winner now forced to win an extra series, their odds will now have a larger payout. It comes down to the basic premise of combined probability, so the Dodgers and Yankees have each moved from +350 World Series co-favorites to 4-1, given the added difficulty of winning a three-game series. This also opens the door for long shots to sneak into the playoffs and catch fire. The Diamondbacks (45-1 to 33-1), Padres (30-1 to 22-1), Giants (175-1 to 125-1) and Rockies (100-1 to 75-1) also saw their odds lowered.
Dodgers should sweep the Giants
Big day today
That was disappointingLeave it to rain stopping the first game of 2020. Makes perfect sense that's how we'd get started. At least I won my ML wager on the Yankees. My bet on the total was refunded for both the Yankees game and Giants/Dodgers game thanks to the pitching change in the nightcap and rain shortening the opener.
The Tatis Jr show begins tonight!!
Well that was a strange beginning....Like the fake fans in the stands..... not....
Yep, really weird to watch baseball with no fans.
My number one pick #4 overall Cole is starting to payoff early.
1 hit, 1 walk, 1 win 1 earned in five innings.
I'll take it eight days a week.
Excellent pick IMO.
Nice start
Would have got more if no COVID-19 happened. He did very well, other non superstar free agents are going to have to settle for scraps after the season.
Soto has Covid19
Dodgers roll over the Giants this week
Sad to say but you're right. The Giants look like a Little League team out there and thats an insult to Little League teams.
Betts contract is huge. Alot of money for one guy.
The Professor dealing again. Cubs starting pitching so solid, Peavy!
Florida Gators could roll over the SD Giants.
Bieber was amazing today striking out 14 batters. Definitely glad I got him in my big money h2h league because I knew the scoring favored going pitching heavy so I took Verlander, Bieber and Greinke with my first 3 picks.
The Athletics’ A.J. Puk’s injury woes continued this week when the club placed the left-hander on the IL to start the season because of shoulder inflammation. While Puk is on track to begin throwing again, his 2020 debut still appears to be pretty far off, manager Bob Melvin revealed (via Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle).
“It’s going to be at least a couple of weeks of just playing catch — and not too far out,” Melvin said. “We’re a ways off before we have an update on him.”
Puk’s a former first-round pick (No. 6 in 2016) who has remained a standout prospect as he has climbed up the minor league ranks. He held his own in his major league debut in 2019 with 11 1/3 innings of 10-hit, four-run ball with 13 strikeouts against five walks. But Oakland’s goal isn’t for Puk to emerge as a key reliever – rather, the team’s hoping he will emerge as a front-line starter. Unfortunately, arm problems have been a regular occurrence for Puk, who underwent Tommy John surgery in April 2018 and has dealt with shoulder issues during the past several months. He still hasn’t made a major league start as a result.
Injuries in its pitching staff are nothing new for Oakland, which overcame a litany of health troubles from 2018-19 en route to back-to-back 97-win seasons and playoff berths. The A’s once again look like serious contenders as this season gets underway, but they’ve begun with a shorthanded rotation because of the absences of Puk and fellow star lefty prospect Jesus Luzardo. They opened the campaign with a rotation consisting of Frankie Montas, Sean Manaea, Mike Fiers, Chris Bassitt and Daniel Mengden.
Figured you would chime in, it's one game settle down.
Paddack pitched 6 shutout innings without his good stuff.
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