Marvin said:

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Great news.

Who might take Bagwell?

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Anyone can take him for a bag of chalk.

Marvin said:

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Great news.

Who might take Bagwell?

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Can we find some obscure reason to invalidate the trade and send him back to Boston?

https://www.mlb.com/news/astros-top-prospects-who-are-getting-closer-to-majors?partnerID=web_article-share

Hadn't heard of a couple of these guys before. Fermin sounds intriguing

Fermin is exciting, but super-duper young, still 17 so projecting 3-4 years from now is difficult, but he has a lot of tools that you want to see. Should easily be top 100 if he can bring his production stateside.

Schiavone is the most likely to contribute soon on the position player side now that he's in AAA. The rest of the top ten is still mostly in the A/AA range for the next year.

Still, by 2028 there will be more interesting rosters to follow in the minors.

Yeah it doesn't sound like anyone's close besides maybe Schiavone. Also the only outfielder sounds like he's not a very good outfielder

W said:

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AggiEE said:

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RED AG 98 said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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I absolutely hate this idea... Rob is ruining baseball

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I absolutely hate this idea
I absolutely hate this commissioner

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I don't hate it

Modern day baseball is boring with the game being so strikeout and home run dominant.

time to bring back the extra base hits

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you know...I don't hate it either

if infielders can be told where to line up...

40-point drop in BABIP on air balls is not to be taken lightly

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Yeah, why would we want anyone pursuing excellence?

Guess the next thing is pitchers can only throw 100mph+ 7 times a game and any time over that is an automatic ball. After 7, anything hit resulting in an out is a single or XBH determined by batted ball metrics.

Beat40 said:

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W said:

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AggiEE said:

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RED AG 98 said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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I absolutely hate this idea... Rob is ruining baseball

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I absolutely hate this idea
I absolutely hate this commissioner

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I don't hate it

Modern day baseball is boring with the game being so strikeout and home run dominant.

time to bring back the extra base hits

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you know...I don't hate it either

if infielders can be told where to line up...

40-point drop in BABIP on air balls is not to be taken lightly

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Yeah, why would we want anyone pursuing excellence?

Guess the next thing is pitchers can only throw 100mph+ 7 times a game and any time over that is an automatic ball. After 7, anything hit resulting in an out is a single or XBH determined by batted ball metrics.

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Another terrible idea in baseball...Any outfielder who makes a four star catch or better according to statcast must leave the field for the remainder of the inning to give the offense a better chance to score.

"Hey MLB, hitters sucked this year"

MLB: "Why"

"It looks like they've spent their entire life trying to swing harder and uppercut the ball to create the best combo of loft and exit velo. So they whiff more and make weaker contact when they don't connect perfectly"

MLB: "Lets try limiting where outfielders can stand"

"Genuis!"

MLB: "I know"

"When that doesn't work next year, can we try removing an infielder? It's not fair that there's 4 of them and only 3 outfielders"

MLB: "Great idea. But I was thinking more of moving all of the fences up 30 feet"

"Yessssss"

Heineken-Ashi said:

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"Hey MLB, hitters sucked this year"

MLB: "Why"

"It looks like they've spent their entire life trying to swing harder and uppercut the ball to create the best combo of loft and exit velo. So they whiff more and make weaker contact when they don't connect perfectly"

MLB: "Lets try limiting where outfielders can stand"

"Genuis!"

MLB: "I know"

"When that doesn't work next year, can we try removing an infielder? It's not fair that there's 4 of them and only 3 outfielders"

MLB: "Great idea. But I was thinking more of moving all of the fences up 30 feet"

"Yessssss"

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Nice fanfic but that isn't what is happening.

CharleyKerfeld said:

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Heineken-Ashi said:

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"Hey MLB, hitters sucked this year"

MLB: "Why"

"It looks like they've spent their entire life trying to swing harder and uppercut the ball to create the best combo of loft and exit velo. So they whiff more and make weaker contact when they don't connect perfectly"

MLB: "Lets try limiting where outfielders can stand"

"Genuis!"

MLB: "I know"

"When that doesn't work next year, can we try removing an infielder? It's not fair that there's 4 of them and only 3 outfielders"

MLB: "Great idea. But I was thinking more of moving all of the fences up 30 feet"

"Yessssss"

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As HRs rise and SBs plummet, I'd love for some franchise to go full tilt on becoming a constant running team; like a college football offense that only runs the option these days. With weak-arm catchers all over the league, I'd love there to be some anomaly team bunting for singles and stealing 5 bases a game.

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This. We watched the Phillies do it to us towards the end of the season. They put on an absolute clinic in small ball with moving runners, hitting behind them, and generally exposing the limited range of Altuve at 2B. They took what our pitchers gave them and drove it oppo to RF with the runners in motion. Our team is still 100% stuck on trying to pull everything to LF for a home run, no matter where they pitch us.