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There are a number of reader comments which roughly approximate the three published above, but which lack the requisite civility to be reproduced here. Generally speaking, there are few who possess a neutral opinion regarding Hawk Harrelson, now relegated (almost?) exclusively to away games. Only slightly more possess an unambiguously positive opinion.
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Was never a fan of Gonzalez, but this seems pointless given how atrocious their roster is.
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I wonder how many losses his replacement will be allowed.
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Guess this douche will be around for another few years.
Quote:The Pirates signed catcher Francisco Cervelli to a three-year contract extension that will keep him in Pittsburgh through the 2019 season, the team announced today. The Pirates have Cervelli, Gerrit Cole, Gregory Polanco, Josh Harrison, Jung Ho Kang and Starling Marte all under contract through 2019. Cervelli, 30, was going to reach free agency after this season. The Pirates acquired Cervelli from the New York Yankees before the 2015 season. He hit .295 with a .370 on-base percentage, set career highs in games played and played good defense behind the plate while working well with the pitching staff. This year, Cervelli is hitting .276 with a .386 OBP and a 25/21 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
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Quote:Guess this douche will be around for another few years.
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The Pirates signed catcher Francisco Cervelli to a three-year contract extension that will keep him in Pittsburgh through the 2019 season, the team announced today. The Pirates have Cervelli, Gerrit Cole, Gregory Polanco, Josh Harrison, Jung Ho Kang and Starling Marte all under contract through 2019. Cervelli, 30, was going to reach free agency after this season. The Pirates acquired Cervelli from the New York Yankees before the 2015 season. He hit .295 with a .370 on-base percentage, set career highs in games played and played good defense behind the plate while working well with the pitching staff. This year, Cervelli is hitting .276 with a .386 OBP and a 25/21 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
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Quote:PITTSBURGH – Finding out you’ve been fired is never easy, but imagine finding out the way that Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez did late Monday.
An hour or so after the Braves’ 8-5 series-opening loss to the Pirates, a person familiar with the situation said Gonzalez received an email notifying him of his scheduled flight to Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon.
That was a bad sign, since the four-game series in Pittsburgh runs through Thursday.
Gonzalez and general manager John Coppolella have been addressing rumors about Gonzalez’s job status for weeks, since the Braves were losing their first nine games of the season on the way to a 9-28 record through Monday. So when he got the email, it had to be a bad sign for Gonzalez.
The Braves had already made the decision to fire him and booked his commercial flight home Tuesday, but didn’t plan to tell him he’d been fired until Tuesday morning, after president of baseball operations John Hart flew to Pittsburgh to join general manager John Coppolella.
Later Monday night after getting the email, Gonzalez eventually had confirmed by Braves top officials what he already was certain about by then: He was fired.
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Sox are losing finally...so there's that.
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Speaking of Atlanta, I just read that there's 7 teams in baseball that have the same (or more) wins at Turner Field as the Braves do this year (who have just two home wins). That's astonishing to me.
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Their roster is even more embarrassing
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Quote:Any doubt about Vin at #1?
And of course he is ranked #1.
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4. Chicago Cubs
<b>Main Broadcasters:</b> Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies
<b>Ratings (Charisma/Analysis/Overall):</b> 4.1, 4.4, 4.4
<b>Three Reader Comments</b>
• “Both [Kasper] and JD are quite analytically curious, and they find unique ways to incorporate it into the broadcast without alienating the more tradtional and/or casual fans.”
• “It often just sounds like two laid-back pals having fun at the ballpark. They don’t know everything, nor do they claim to know everything. If they want to learn something, they will immediately look to Twitter for fan response during the broadcast.”
• “JD keeps giving material to @DeshaiesQuotes on Twitter. And God said it was good.”
<b>Notes</b>
Yesterday, the author noted the decline of interest among FanGraphs readers in the Houston television broadcast, now ranked 16th after having occupied fourth place when this same exercise was conducted four years ago. The difference for the Astros in the meantime? The departure of Jim Deshaies. Deshaies is now employed by the Cubs, joining Len Kasper, himself having already exhibited a real comfort with advanced metrics before Deshaies’ arrival. As a pair, they’re particularly well-equipped to comment on a club that has become excellent largely on the strength of progressive ideas.
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They really are great. They keep it exciting without resorting to homerism. When there is a bad call, they point it out and then move on. They discuss important in depth baseball stuff which can still engage normal baseball fans.
The new Sox guy is heads and tails better than Hawk, but you still see the difference between guys like him and Len. The "missed" catcher's interference call was STILL being complained about the next day on the Sox broadcast. Len and JD would have pointed out why they thought it should have been called, why it was a big deal it wasn't, then they would have moved on.
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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Bet that chicken can still hit better than he is this year.
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How about Harvey? He's been pretty bad this year.
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