{"id":17093,"date":"2021-05-27T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17093"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:23:24","slug":"big-board-operations-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17093","title":{"rendered":"Big Board operations for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FYI, I\u2019m trying a couple of things new this year on the Big Board, which stems from my decade-long attempts to track (primarily pitcher) movement through the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/186nm-v5F-zTCoR2Be7TFYM3e2cZ-gYi2WVqJLEkHdmc\/\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/186nm-v5F-zTCoR2Be7TFYM3e2cZ-gYi2WVqJLEkHdmc\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Big Board link, fyi. Here\u2019s some things to look for this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I\u2019m going to track promotions and demotions of players to try to show on the board who is really making a move up or down. In the Position field I\u2019m color coding Green for promotions and Red for demotions. I\u2019m not counting the opening day rosters; this is day 1 forward moves.<\/li><li>I will periodically look at position player box scores to try to ascertain who is the \u201cstarter\u201d at each position, but won\u2019t really try too hard for the lower minors. That\u2019s because they use the DH, and if someone is DHing on the day i don\u2019t want to list them as not being the starter.<\/li><li>I have the Rotations set, and they\u2019re all synced up right now so that across the board (from MLB on down) all the pitchers set to go on (say) Tuesday are listed in the same row on the sheet. All our systems are using 5-man rotations, and even low-A seems to be sticking with it despite doing lots of tandem starting before.<\/li><li>I\u2019ve also tried to put the relievers somewhat into their roles; Closer, Setup, middle relief, lefty relievers and long relievers. This is, of course, kind of impossible to be right on perpetually, and pitchers frequently throw multi-inning stints despite being called \u201cthe closer\u201d or a \u201csetup guy.\u201d Furthermore, loogies are a thing of the past, so it may not really be that accurate to classify a guy as \u201cjust\u201d a lefty reliever. But it looks good so far.<\/li><li>At the very far right there\u2019s an \u201cExtended Spring Training\u201d column to hold players who don\u2019t seem to be assigned anywhere right now. As always, sometimes players sit there for quite a while before suddenly reappearing. And, since Milb.com doesn\u2019t always get a press release when someone has been released, its possible there are players listed as active who have gotten cut.<\/li><li>GCL and DSL rosters are the hardest to keep track of; they\u2019re all placeholders for now until we get to the opening day for both. Honestly, i hate attempting to track DSL since the information is spotty and huge percentages of players in the DSL never even get to a domestic league, but we\u2019ll try.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve cleared out the NRI color coding at this point, since it was making readability nearly impossible. I did not track Luke\u2019s watchlist players this year either for the same reason. We do still track 40-man roster players in grey and original Nats signees\/draftees in blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you\u2019re well. As always, if there are any mistakes in the board please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FYI, I\u2019m trying a couple of things new this year on the Big Board, which stems from my decade-long attempts to track (primarily pitcher) movement through the system. https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/186nm-v5F-zTCoR2Be7TFYM3e2cZ-gYi2WVqJLEkHdmc\/ This is the Big Board link, fyi. Here\u2019s some things to look for this year: I\u2019m going to track promotions and demotions of players to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17095,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17093\/revisions\/17095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}