Tag: Major League Baseball
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Mariners Click Wrong Button, Try to Fix Before Anyone Notices
Three days after claiming catcher Jacob Nottingham off of waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers, the Mariners have thrown this fish back into the pond. Turns out they never wanted him at all — his acquisition was the result of a simple mistake with the computer mouse on the part of GM Jerry Dipoto. When the…
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Progress Report: 10 % Complete, 100 % Elite
The Northwest Green Machine has completed sixteen games, and thus is ten percent done with their personal 2021 marathon. (If you’re pushing your glasses up the bridge of your nose and mentioning that “actually ten percent of 162 is 16.2,” then me and the boys are on our way to stuff you in a locker.)…
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Trident Deck Podcast Episode 2: All Fool’s Day
Happy Opening Day, Sailor! The Mariners are back, and so is the podcast. Please take a listen and then sign up for fantasy baseball with your Trident Deck friends and family! Podcast available on all the platforms that matter. Go wild!
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THE MARINERS LINEUP, SOLVED. A TRIDENT DECK EXCLUSIVE
This week, reading the internet, it seems to be Mariner Optimal Lineup Season (or szn for the hipper cats and kittens). And please believe we have A Take. Digging through the baseball internet of yore, I unearthed a lineup optimizer from the bush-era-web. The following datums were plugged into the machine, and I let the…
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INTENTIONAL ACTS OF TRIDENT(ness): Let’s have some fun.
Howdy Deckies! TL;DR Let’s have some baseball adjacent fun. Trident Deck will be running two fantasy baseball leagues (one traditional, one WeirdAss) for you, the Deckies, the Deckie-curious, and any merry pranksters you may know. Having made the term “deckie” (Tridentor? Deckhand? Idk we’ll make it up as we go) up seconds ago and seeing…
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Introducing The Trident Deck Podcast: A Podcast by Trident Deck
Much like that large purple fella from the Tony Stark movies, this was inevitable. Did you really think Trident Deck was going to be born on the internet and simply be content to be consumed as written word and nothing more? No. No, Sailor. This here blog was always destined for more. Not “more” as…
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The Trident is Good, Actually
Despite what you hear from conspiracy theorists, cowards, and superstitious minds, here’s what you need to remember about the trident logo: It’s good. Source: Me, and everyone else with a brain. There is no bias here, I promise.
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VIBES: An Introduction from the Trident Deck Fantasy Incubator
Value Indexed Baseball Estimation System (which will be referred to henceforth as VIBES) is an attempt by the machine learning department at Trident Deck to summarize a player’s total contributions to your fantasy baseball team in a straightforward ranking methodology. While experts would say to have more than one metric in evaluating the statistical contributions…
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Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me — Can’t Get Fooled Again
The Seattle Mariners want you to believe that they want to win. You’ve seen the highlights, haven’t you? 1995? 2001? Those seasons really happened. You can’t deny that. That’s how you can trust them, when they tell you they want to win. The Seattle Mariners want you to believe that they hate to lose. You…
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A Deep Dive Into the PECOTA Projections for the 2021 Seattle Mariners
Our expert analytics team crunched the numbers that Baseball Prospectus already crunched, and here’s their conclusion: Oh no! It looks bad again. 69.6 wins is not very many wins. Shoot! Source: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/
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