JoeC

Perhaps you are missing my point. If you hurt your wrist, say, you can adjust your mechanics for taking a face-off and still be effective. Your mechanics are thrown off, for sure, but you can adjust. Baseball, when pitching or hitting, is so incredibly dependant on repetitive mechanics that smaller injuries will have an outsized impact on performance. With a damaged wrist like Luis Robert a couple of years ago, you can still absolutely be an effective hockey player. It will affect you, and it hurts like hell, but you can make adjustments. You might lose that little snap on your pass, or you might just straight up not be able to take a slap shot, for example, but there is enough that you can do to be effective elsewhere. In baseball, if you have a wrist injury like that, one major part of your game is just straight up f'ed. Can you try to play through the pain? Sure, but it's far more likely to affect your performance. Not saying it doesn't hurt hockey players (it does hurt). What I am saying is that hockey has so many other components athletically that, if you can stand the pain, you can perform. Similar injuries in baseball, by the nature of pitching and hitting, will have an outsized impact on your ability to perform. If you disagree, feel free to call out any pitcher for not pitching through a torn UCL.

I played NCAA hockey.

Baseball requires and is far more dependent on repetitive precise movements compared to a sport like hockey.

The Sox got a collection of lottery tickets in return for Bummer.

Pretty sure if I’m Holliday, i say no

Maybe a more accurate way I should have phrased it is that you don't run X Rays to look for soft tissue, typically

If it's X Rays, then not soft tissue

Not sure how it's a difficult concept that you have to have a collection of talent so that you have good players playing together. You can't spread out your talented players over time and expect to field good teams.

I don't think that's what @Tnetennba meant.

I just wanted to acknowledge that I love the ode to the original Mighty Ducks.

If you don't agree after seeing these two posters agreeing on this,. . . .

I’m happy to eat crow on Crochet.

I only want to trade with Pittsburgh if it involves ending up with a Yaz - Maldonado tandem behind the plate. Because some of us just want to watch the world burn.

Let's start one.

On the same rehab assignment in Arizona??

I don’t think you’re making the point you think you are.

End of September still counts as “after the All-Star Break.”

I'm torn. One of those "I wouldn't belong to any club that'd have someone like me as a member" situations. Getz said he'd bring a fresh perspective to the org and would change it / make his own mark. As a fan, I'd like to hold him to that.

The last one was by Hahn (presumably). As much as I think Getz is inept as a GM, I prefer to let him unimpeachably own this next hire.

The fact that it’s clear no actual managerial search is going to happen is the part that bothers me.

Used to be an artsyish spot. Now it’s overpriced and overrated. looking to move out to the woods to get away from people.

I even get free admission as part of my Oakland County residency. (I meant to quote my DIA post, buy here we are, too lazy to make a full correction)

Translation: Eloy will play RF for a game.

After a decade of living in the Detroit area, I still have not been to the DIA. I should check it out….

Rick Renteria was the Cubs version of Rick Renteria.