2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

Mathguy64 said:

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2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

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That was Wednesday night. I'm sure now that video has gone viral, there might be some league investigation.

Honestly, each batter should get one review a game. Starting pitchers 2. Relief pitchers 1.

Walker needs to figure out Daikin Park. I don't know if it's the batter's eye or if he tries to be a pull hitter at home, which he's not, but he strikes out a lot more often at home.

Plate appearances per K (2025)
Home: 3.09
Away: 4.22

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But he's been a high K guy his entire career. That's nothing new. Yeah there have been an uptick but high K rate is nothing new with CW.

Also I wouldn't say he wasn't accustomed to hitting where did. He's always been a #4 hitter. He may have not expected to hit there when he signed but it's certainly not anything new to him.

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If he has a similar uptick next season he'd be over 200ks and within hailing distance of the league record.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkech02.shtml

He combined that with a career low walk rate as a starter, which aided his career high in strikeouts.

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Looking at it a little further, it was more than an "uptick". He went from 133 in 2024 (highest in his previous 5 seasons) to 177 in 2025 (14% higher than his previous worst in 2019, 1st season playing full time), a 33% year over year increase.

His PA/K rates look like this:

2019 3.89
2020 4.86
2021 4.20
2022 5.09
2023 5.20
2024 4.15
2025 3.62

As you said, if he has a similar increase next season (33% increase to 235), he is going to blow past the MLB record for Ks in a season (223).

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I feel a little badly picking on the strikeouts because it's low hanging fruit.

However many of the league's best bats strikeout in prodigious amounts:
No. 1 - Wood 221
No. 2 - Greene 201
No. 3 - Schwarber 197
No. 4 - Suarez 196
No. 5 - Devers 192
No. 6 - Arozarena 191
No. 9 - Ohtani - 187

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB-leaders.shtml

The difference is that they all slug and are superlative hitters.

Wood - OPS+ 132
Green - OPS+ 120
Schwarber - OPS+ 150
Suarez - OPS+ 126
Devers - OPS+ 140
Arozarena - OPS+ 119
Ohtani - OPS+ 179

Walker's biggest sin isn't the strikeouts (although how uncompetitive many are aren't great), it's that he was a below average hitter (OPS+ 97) while flailing away. At first base. As our splash everyday player FA signing to erase the bad taste of Abreu away.

Which doesn't even get into Walker (-1.5 dWAR) being close to Altuve (-2.2 dWAR) inept in the field, which doesn't bode well. Altuve at least is still an above average bat at OPS+ 112 and has all kinds of good will built up.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/altuvjo01.shtml

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Mathguy64 said:

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2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

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That was Wednesday night. I'm sure now that video has gone viral, there might be some league investigation.

Honestly, each batter should get one review a game. Starting pitchers 2. Relief pitchers 1.

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I would give each batter one unsuccessful review a game. If they keep getting it right keep punishing the umpire. I would give starters 2 unsuccessful ones.

If the umpires keep missing, keep appealing.

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THIS

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If he were hitting 40 bombs a year with an .850+ OPS, nobody would care how often he strikes out. But he isn't so it is a stat that stands out.

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.799 OPS and 118+ OPS after the ASB. Maybe he figured it out.

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txags92 said:

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If he were hitting 40 bombs a year with an .850+ OPS, nobody would care how often he strikes out. But he isn't so it is a stat that stands out.

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.799 OPS and 118+ OPS after the ASB. Maybe he figured it out.

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.503 OPS after the ASB at home. Seems like he only figured it out away from Daikin.

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Mathguy64 said:

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Beat40 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

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That was Wednesday night. I'm sure now that video has gone viral, there might be some league investigation.

Honestly, each batter should get one review a game. Starting pitchers 2. Relief pitchers 1.

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I would give each batter one unsuccessful review a game. If they keep getting it right keep punishing the umpire. I would give starters 2 unsuccessful ones.

If the umpires keep missing, keep appealing.

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THIS

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This has been my position. You appeal and win? You keep it.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46477680/rangers-focusing-manager-search-skip-schumaker
I was hoping we'd go after him... Is Jim awake?

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gambochaman said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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Beat40 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

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That was Wednesday night. I'm sure now that video has gone viral, there might be some league investigation.

Honestly, each batter should get one review a game. Starting pitchers 2. Relief pitchers 1.

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I would give each batter one unsuccessful review a game. If they keep getting it right keep punishing the umpire. I would give starters 2 unsuccessful ones.

If the umpires keep missing, keep appealing.

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THIS

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This has been my position. You appeal and win? You keep it.

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Why would they not do it this way?

Jim is figuring out if he wants to keep Dana

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Dr. Doctor said:

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gambochaman said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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Beat40 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

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That was Wednesday night. I'm sure now that video has gone viral, there might be some league investigation.

Honestly, each batter should get one review a game. Starting pitchers 2. Relief pitchers 1.

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I would give each batter one unsuccessful review a game. If they keep getting it right keep punishing the umpire. I would give starters 2 unsuccessful ones.

If the umpires keep missing, keep appealing.

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THIS

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This has been my position. You appeal and win? You keep it.

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Why would they not do it this way?

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Officially? They don't want to slow the game down is I think the reason.

Unofficially? The umpires Union would be vehemently opposed to anything that shows they miss calls regularly. Can you imagine CB missing 20 strikes a game?

it's been my understanding that the challenges are 'use them until you lose them', that it is two failed challenges, basically

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it's been my understanding that the challenges are 'use them until you lose them', that it is two failed challenges, basically

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But it's limited I believe to 2 a team.

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Jim is going to wait until a few weeks before spring training to fire Joe and hire from the scraps that don't get picked up by anybody else, isn't he?

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Brad Ausmus, come on down

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linkdude said:

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it's been my understanding that the challenges are 'use them until you lose them', that it is two failed challenges, basically

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But it's limited I believe to 2 a team.

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BREAKING: Major League Baseball will use the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) during the entire 2026 season

ABS CHALLENGE RULES:

- Each team will get two challenges and can keep them if they're successful

- Challenges can only be initiated by a pitcher, catcher, or… pic.twitter.com/xHkRIbHrRx

— MLB (@MLB) September 23, 2025

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https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46477680/rangers-focusing-manager-search-skip-schumaker
I was hoping we'd go after him... Is Jim awake?

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As much as I want to fault Jim for this, this was a done deal over a year ago. It's why he went into their front office last year and not a head coaching job.

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I haven't seen anyone that has discussed the clubhouse issues mention the possibility that the Correa trade might have had something to do with the disfunction.

The team had a leadership void and some guys were starting to step up in the absences of Correa and Bregman. The entire dynamic changed when they brought Correa back in. I'm a huge Correa fan, but him coming in shifted the entire clubhouse balance. Young guys who were starting to step up as leaders had the rug pulled out from them.

I think a spring together will give things a chance to find equilibrium, but bringing in a lead dog changed a lot of the chemistry.

Just a thought.

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Late to the reply, but I was close to posting something similar on Monday. I don't think it's that far fetched to think that it could have been a mild disruption. Wouldn't it be human nature to think, "wait a minute...you chose to walk away after '21, and now you want to come in and pick up where you left off?" I have nothing to base that on except what we all observed, and that was a directionless team. And before you say that's on Espada, I think if any fans should grasp this concept, it's us...the team leaders hold more sway than the manager (Hint: 2017!).

I told my son last Friday that Bregman was this season's missing link. I think he did far more than any of us might realize. He would have led us through that ugly second half.

Good hire for Arlington.

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Good hire for Arlington.

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they already hired him?

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txags92 said:

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gambochaman said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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Beat40 said:

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Mathguy64 said:

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2 appeals with ABS won't be enough.

How did those coaches and players avoid suspensions? Int e regular season those are big suspensions.

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That was Wednesday night. I'm sure now that video has gone viral, there might be some league investigation.

Honestly, each batter should get one review a game. Starting pitchers 2. Relief pitchers 1.

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I would give each batter one unsuccessful review a game. If they keep getting it right keep punishing the umpire. I would give starters 2 unsuccessful ones.

If the umpires keep missing, keep appealing.

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THIS

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This has been my position. You appeal and win? You keep it.

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Why would they not do it this way?

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Officially? They don't want to slow the game down is I think the reason.

Unofficially? The umpires Union would be vehemently opposed to anything that shows they miss calls regularly. Can you imagine CB missing 20 strikes a game?

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It's easy if you try.

Skip? Yes as of yesterday

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Before anyone says "fire the medical staff"… this is almost solely on Luis for not rehabbing and conditioning properly

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I guess I always assumed that rehabbing something like this was 100% under team review.