I'm not an expert but I don't think so. I always thought it was a handful of each team's best prospects for High A, maybe AA, for the next season.

The Cubs have Happ and Jimenez there. I think, actually, there is a limit to how many players can be there that don't have AA experience.

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You know me like that.

So you're saying there are less things to take into consideration and yet you consider that more complicated?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I don't think it's complicated when a decision is made for you. In the NL, if you get to a certain point in the game and you're behind or only ahead by a minimal amount of runs, you're gonna pinch hit. If the pitcher is a lefty, you bring in your righty. If the pitcher is a righty, you bring in your lefty. It's not rocket science.

In the AL, you have to make a real decision on whether you can squeeze another out or two out of the starter.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

You don't watch a lot of NL ball if you think pinch hitting is automatic. Secondly, you'd think AL pitchers would be more successful if they were taken out when they lost their stuff, considering that would be the manager's only worry. Lastly, you are ignoring the entire concept of double switches, which I'd be happy to explain to you should there be a need.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

How hard can it be? Don't you believe you know more than a lot of managers?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I know you're bricking, but go back and re-read the post you're attempting to reference.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Ok. I did. So don't you believe you know more than a lot of managers?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Settle down fellas, it's baseball, not rocket surgery.

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AL baseball is so simple that Joe Maddon was unable to win a World Series in Tampa.

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I 'know more' than a lot of people employed in major league baseball. I guarantee you I could squeeze into the front office of MANY baseball teams and out perform some of their personnel.

Archaic points of view such as JORR's no longer work in 2016. Find those traditionalists and give them the boot.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

More successful than what? NL pitchers? They are.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I forgot...you think giving up more runs can be better than giving up less runs.

If there are as many pinch hitters as you say, then doesn't that reduce the impact NL pitchers would have on an opposing pitcher's ERA?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

The game can't be that complex if a young guy like you who spends most of his week working a job in a completely different field could waltz in and be better than many who are at the highest level.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I think you just disqualified yourself from that front office job.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

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Analyzing statistics is analyzing statistics.

You learn to identify causes... trends ... then you cost-effiectively capitalize on them.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

If it can be done as a hobby while working a full time job then it isn't that complex.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

With IMU in the front office, I expect no more cheap adjustable hats on hat day. I want fitted hats just like the players wear.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Fine, but they're all size 5-1/2.

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Maddon told Spiegs and Goff that Kyle would be in the lineup tonight as DH. So trust in Joe.

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Elections have consequences.

Hey there Twinkles. Joe gave me the heads up last night, so I had Producer Jared get Kyle the best set of down pillows we could get in Cleveland so he was well rested and ready to go. We had a whole care package ready for him when he got to the hotel...nice pillows, soft pajamas from Pajamagram, good bottle of White Zin from my guys at Binny's, some Shari's Berries for desert. Told Ed Vedder all about the care package, and he told me that a nice Pinot or Merlot would have been a better wine option, and I was like, "I don't know, Ed...maybe we should defer to Billy on this one."

Take some calls.

William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in his spare time over the course of six weeks while working full-time at a power plant.

Apparently its status as one of the most complex and masterful modernist novels of the 20th century needs to be reconsidered in light of your wisdom above.

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I hate it when mults go stale.

just when you thought IMU's ego couldn't get any bigger, Midge compares him to William Faulkner. Positively.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I think you need to research the life of William Faulkner more.

He was an author for years prior to that. If anything, it is impressive that he could be as good as he was at working at a power plant.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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WHAT NEXT??? Will he compare Douchebag to Hemmingway???

IMU would be Einstein if they would just give him an extra 15 minutes on each lunch break.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Lunch break? Have we forgotten about #fasttrack?

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Even Seacrest thinks your response is dumb. Perhaps you need to readjust your priorities and go full-time as an internet debater.

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