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  1. ORS
    I don't vote because I don't like popularity contests, and that's what this is. This year's greatest example: Mark Teixeira leading the AL in votes for 1B. Numbahs [table]Player|BA|OBP|SLG|OPS Teixeira|.209|.327|.378|.705 Morneau|.383|.497|.701|1.199 Youk|.321|.457|.622|1.079[/table] Booooooooo. Boo.
  2. ORS
    Actually, with an average BABIP (.309), because he's been able to keep the ball in the park (0.5 HR/9), his FIP is 3.57.....with, like Dipre said, improving peripherals, and not just in BB/9 but in K/9 as well. And this was against two very good hitting teams. It's a small sample, but it's also very common for pitchers to have something click a month or so into the season and their control improves. His xFIP is 4.10, but that brings up a funny contradiction in FIP and xFIP. xFIP is based on what his FIP would be based on an adjusted (to average) HR/FB rate. But the whole concept of FIP is that you gauge the pitcher on what they can control (K, BB, HR). So, a pitcher who is doing a good job at what FIP credits him for, keeping the ball in the park, gets penalized by xFIP's normalization. Either the pitcher has control over HR or he doesn't.
  3. ORS
    Wow, that was a meatball too, but Slappy was guessing FB.
  4. ORS
    Where are you getting "hate" from? The discussion in the GT was about underrated. IE, an appreciation for his talents that is below his actual production level. Don't make this a Gom argument with a moving target.
  5. ORS
    Garnder with another o'fer. Funny how that BABIP thing works. Here's comes the blown save.
  6. ORS
    Man were the Angels smart to let that guy go.
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    Acknowledgement of the broken system isn't my issue. Wanting your team to do all it can to win within a broken system isn't my issue. These are the two things you are talking about. What I'm talking about is the want, the desire, for the system to stay broken to continue to get the benefit.
  10. ORS
    Plus, one of the tough things about a KB is that its trajectory is on a very vertical plane as it passes through the strikezone. I head wind magnifies this, so the plane of the swing is more different than the plane of the pitch trajectory, making the timing for solid contact more difficult. The maxim about the knuckleball is, "If it's low, let it go, if it's high, let it fly". A headwind helps a KB pitcher keep the ball down (slowing it's approach to the plate and allowing gravity to work on it longer).
  11. ORS
    No, the drag is increased with a head wind, which results in a more volatile low pressure zone behind the ball, making it skitter left and right as it approaches home. EDIT: Here's a link for the technical stuff.....link.
  12. ORS
    This is year 1 though. Just like with Pedro, the issue wasn't year 1, but the tail end of the contract. You are running around "told you so"-ing to nobody in general, because nobody really questioned his ability this year.
  13. ORS
    The funny thing is that the wind you want for Wake is the wind you don't want in Philly. You want the wind blowing out to CF, because that makes the butterfly dance more (and drop more) coming to the plate, which makes it next to impossible to square up.
  14. ORS
    He was better against Toronto. 9 K / 0 BB
  15. ORS
    LIDP! Alive.
  16. ORS
    Another couple of innings like that, and he'll have a shot. If he's around 110 through 8, you have to let him try and finish it.
  17. ORS
    Where do you read that I've said they deny it? The sad part, is that they readily admit and are fine with the inequity because they benefit from it. The sad part is the greediness.
  18. ORS
    If they are going to rally, JC Romero is a fine pitcher to have on the mound.
  19. ORS
    Can we get a refund?
  20. ORS
    Is there any way Kazoo doesn't clear the bases with a gapper here?
  21. ORS
    Now Sloth gives up a hit to the pitcher. Just like Beckett, 4 more years, woo hoo!
  22. ORS
    Lackey will now go by Rocket Man.....until he has a couple of games where he doesn't give them up all the time.
  23. ORS
    No, it doesn't. Rocket science involves thermodynamics, differential equations, boundary value concepts, fluid dynamics, energy chemistry, etc. All it takes is a grasp of statistics, which is really simple in comparison to those things. Apparently, the simple still evades your comprehension. Cameron is a better CF. Might not be in a couple of years, might not be a better overall OF, as Ellsbury is excellent in LF. But Cameron is better at the position, taking all forms of contribution into effect, of CF. No rocket science needed for this. Quit acting like a butthurt fanboy.
  24. ORS
    He's already back, per se. He's rehabbing in the minors. The possibility of re-injury doesn't exist solely on MLB ball fields. Boras has f***all to say about when he comes back. It's between the player and club doctors.
  25. ORS
    Not really. The Rays have scored 225 runs when the approximate average of the run production stats place their context independent scoring at 200 runs. You can either believe that their aggressiveness on the basepaths is the genesis of this (I mean nobody in the history of baseball has ever been aggressive, right?), or you can believe that the way they are really hitting won't lead to as many runs. Similarly, they are also about +20 runs to the positive on the pitching side. They aren't pitching and hitting like a .750 win team. I'm thinking there's a correction in order. Now that correction could be that they do start hitting and pitching like a .750 win team, or it could be some more losses. Time will tell. What's unlikely is that they continue to play the way they have and win at the rate they have.
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