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It shows how much the market changed in a year that people are now referring to Kimbrel's contract as a bargain.
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That's good to know.
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I was familiar. With him, but didn't see a lot of him with the Twins. He impressed me with a scorched low liner grounder that went through the infield and outfield in a flash for a triple against the Yankees. I thought he was a pretty strong kid. the it wasn't a long time after he first appeared in a Red Sox uniform that I was glad Gianni went down with an injury.
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typo. I will fix.
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That is why they s*** so much. Repetition fine tunes the bowel memory.
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That may be the case going forward, but initially, his prolonged period of failure was a very bad indicator for the prospect of turning things around. Going forward, he may be like Brian Daubach with lengthy hot and cold streaks. Dauber could look like a batting champion for a month putting everything on play hit hard spraying hits to all fields. When he was cold, he looked helpless-- like he had been struck blind.
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At which point he will no longer be under contract?
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Bradley is an extreme case. It is very rare for a player to turn it around after a prolonged period of terrible failure. He was slow to adjust and he had obvious mechanical flaws. Most mechanical flaws are subtle and imperceptible to the observer.
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Unless he was aiming for you. LOL!
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I don't understand this at all. Luck which enhances exististing skill?
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They are not flipping coins. The data output gives a random appearance but there is very little that is random when athletes compete against each other. There is a randomness factor, but I think it is not significant. I really can't state it any more clearly.
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That doesn't answer Bell's question.
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You need to explain yourself better, because Bells read that post the same way that I did.
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That is how I read it. An absolute statement that the hot hand doesn't exist with a fuzzy qualifying statement.
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So, you acknowledge that streaks involve factors other than randomness, but you think there is a lot of randomness? Is that your position? Can you prove or quantify that streaks involve largely randomness?
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This post indicates the opposite. http://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/17652-Christian-Vazquez?p=1044642&viewfull=1#post1044642
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Where we differ is that you think hot and cold streaks are due to randomness. I do not agree. You have been unable to prove or quantify that hypothesis. I think that there streaks are LARGELY due to mechanical adjustments, and other physical and mental explanations. And now we are going in circles.
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Hmm indeed. Maybe the randomness tends to even out.
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I never said that there was no random element to baseball or to hot or cold streaks, but I do deny that streaks are are a function only of randomness as had been asserted at the beginning of this discussion. Now, your goal posts have moved. Mine have not.
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See my edit to my post above.
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Okay. You have convinced me. Players are wasting lot of time doing all that work. Edit: You asked me what I consider to be random. Then you ask me what I thought about Sandy Leon's new found success. I told you. You disagree. That about sums it up.
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He started making hard contact less consistently which could indicate a number of different reasons other than random luck or absence of luck, e.g. pitchers pitched more carefully to him, changed their approach when facing him, he got a bit banged up or fatigued affecting his mechanics, he fell into some mechanical bad habit, or any number of factors that could affect his performance.
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Ground balls that are smoked through holes are different than multiple bouncers going through the infield which I would categorize as seeing eye base hits. He was making hard contact much more consistently than he had previously in the majors. Many of his outs were stung too. That was applied skill.
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Bloop hits, seeing eye groundballs, swinging bunt hits, line drives at fielders, bad hops, foul pops that make it into the stands by one or 2 rows -- anything that is obvious luck. The rest is a function of applied skill by the contestants.
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I vow to you Pete that I will do whatever I can to prevent them from sucking the fun out of this place too.
