<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings:</div><div> I'm in agreement with Mr. Barrett, though I wouldn't fight switching from BA to OBP. And speaking as a traditionalist, I'm pleased as punch to see game pace return to at least 1980s levels, if not 1970s levels.</div><div> Rick<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 11:27 AM Klein Nine via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm guessing a lot of others agree. Also guessing that, as a traditionalist, Jim is lamenting that the bases are a few inches larger this year, too. :)<br><br>-Andy<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>On Mar 5, 2023, 12:08 PM, Jim Barrett < <a href="mailto:chicagojab@gmail.com" target="_blank">chicagojab@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote><br><div dir="auto">I’m still a believer in Wins and BA. I would not be in favor of switching.<br><br>And I think that dealing with trades to the NL adds an extra strategic wrinkle that can liven things up part way into the season. So I’m not in favor of changing that either.<div><br></div><div>Jim<br><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 5, 2023, at 10:32 AM, Klein Nine via Announce <<a href="mailto:announce@usml.net" target="_blank">announce@usml.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As long as we’re gearing up for the season, I wanted to
toss out a few discussion items.<span> </span>None of
these are suggestions for this season.<span> </span>Just
wanted to get thoughts to see if we might have momentum for putting forward proposals
later this year to implement in future seasons.<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">1.<span> </span>Wins: <span> </span>Wins seems a dated category, especially with so
many starters going five innings per game or less.<span> </span>Is there a good substitute?<span> </span>Quality starts?<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">2.<span> </span>Batting
Average:<span> </span>Would OBP be better?<span> </span>Does anyone play in league that uses OBP
instead of BA?<span> </span>If so, what do you think?<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">3. <span> </span>Trades to
NL:<span> </span>We’ve raised this before but have
not had a critical mass of support for counting stats of players traded to the
NL mid-season.<span> </span>With MLB balancing the
schedule and adding more inter-league games, is anyone willing to re-consider?<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">-Andy<span> </span><u></u> <u></u></p><br></div>
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