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Another complete meatball.
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Anyone catching the Tampa broadcast? I'd love to hear Staats reaction to that call.
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The 89 mph cutter thrown 3" from dead center of the strikezone? That was a prototype meatball that Sonnanstine seems to be able to get away with vs. this team.
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Well, to start, W/L performance is a really poor gauge of how good a pitcher is. Good pitchers on bad teams rarely are league leaders in W/L performance regardless of which league it is. Stats like ERA and WHIP (walks + hits per inning pitched) tend to tell you more about how good a pitcher is in his given league. Where the DH has an impact is on those stats, so it's tough to compare an NL pitcher to an AL pitcher via ERA and WHIP without a league adjustment. Early in the offseason, someone was suggesting the league adjustment was very large. I did a quick rudimentary look at league scoring averages and the RC (runs created) by the DH in the AL and hitting pitchers and pinch hitters in the NL. The difference in league scoring average was about 0.5 runs a game. The difference in the RC between the DH and hitting pitchers + pinch hitters was about 0.5 runs. In other words, the scoring difference appears to solely based on the rules differences.
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When they faced Kazmir late last season, he was hurt and they got the best of him. Prior to that, he pretty much dominated the Sox.
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Wait, so you've only seen him pitch once, and it was this year, but you are on the record in the past saying he's not that good. All this coming from a guy who is Mr. Watch the Games. How the f*** can you form your prior opinion if you didn't watch him? I guess the other title you've given yourself, Mr. Objectivity, is a 5 lbs sack of s*** as well.
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That's before the WS era. All-time leader conversations usually start at the beginning of the WS era.
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I thought Byrd's main appeal was that he didn't walk people.
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I don't think Gom was saying that he gave them a chance to win was the surprise, but how well he pitched (Mitre too). What's funny is that Buchholz is one of those guys you really shouldn't be surprised if he pitches that well. He's got video game stuff when it's on. Guess "game watching" isn't all it's cracked up to be, because you don't see that in a stat sheet.
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Doubt Rogers lasts the first round. I may have only just started watching MMA, but I'm familiar with the techniques grapplers employ. The USMC hand to hand combat training is a hybrid that utilizes chokes and locks from Judo, Sambo, and other disciplines. Since becoming interested in the sport, I've checked out Fedor's fight history on youtube. He's as good a grappler as I've ever seen. Tough as nails and able to manipulate whichever joint is available in a given situation. When I was in training, the saying was, an extended limb is a broken limb. Fedor demonstrates that principle as well as anyone I've seen.
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I haven't been a fan of MMA for long, in fact just started watching it. I have Showtime at home, and they have a broadcast deal with Strikeforce. Watched Santos (Cyborg) pummel Gina Carano. I think that chick used to have some junk. Stoked about watching Fedor this fall. Was impressed with Gegard Mousasi when I saw him.
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Oh noes, another walk.
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Cue the Big Top music.
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Lost in all the woe about the offense, Clay looks pretty good tonight.
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f***, Bay walked, now we're screwed.
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The two things under examination here aren't mutually exclusive. The ER matrix means that your chances for a big inning are greater with 3 on / 0 out. The 1-run probability tells you how often you score. They aren't the same thing. Early in a game, I'd play for the RE matrix. Later, as situation dictates, I'd play for the higher scoring probability.
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This inning is starting like the other two.
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Of course it's preferable to for the defense to have the bases loaded there. Ever stop yourself from your panty wetting initial reaction to think that maybe the defense would pitch around the hitter that's up there, letting him put the ball in play on pitches out of the strikezone and harder to hit well?
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At least he didn't walk. Amirite?
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Bump in the road or cause for concern for Beckett
ORS replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
You like that strawman, don't you, the one where you go back to the counting stats that have already been acknowledged as dissimilar? Not surprising, that's kindergarden level thinking, which is par for the course in discussions with you. -
Bump in the road or cause for concern for Beckett
ORS replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yeah, it really was, and anyone who watched both games or looked at the stats with some understanding of the "game of inches" nature of the sport would see that. You are only playing the fool because you've been caught applying your typical double standard. Both dominated the opponent with K's. Both were wild, evidenced through the walks and mistakes that got hit out. Beckett made one more mistake over ~100 pitches. That's 1%. Only a great fool or someone with an agenda calls the way they pitched remarkably different.