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Nope

What's wrong with Saito? If your sixth guy out of the pen has a 3.32 ERA you're doing pretty good there

baseball's a numbers game

f*** Penny

Jeter-esque

Right...because there is nothing ridiculous to be seen there like I've been saying all along

No, YOU'RE the one who attacked the stats people and YOU'RE the one putting words in people's mouths

Longoria: 37.2 GB% Zobrist: 40.7 GB% (league average: ~43%) HR/FB Longoria: 17.6% Zobrist: 20.7% LD%: Longoria: 17.6% Zobrist: 21.4% (league average: ~20%) I don't really see anything particularly ridiculous or completely unsustainable with these figures

So basically you're argument is based around you saying that Longoria is a better hitter than Zobrist... OBP fueled? The ISO for both guys vs. RHP is basically dead even, .255 to .254...with the kicker that Zobrist's OBP is 30 points higher The league average LD% was 20.3 last year, I don't see anything ridiculous about his figure. Probably his HR/FB will go down but I don't see it dipping below 19%, again his new mechanics have given him a lot of power out of that swing.

Well it has 55% of the time

He got DFA by one of the worst teams in baseball. He played for three teams this year and sucked horribly for all of them

I disagree Like I said above this really doesn't matter. What matters is that exact scenario last night with Saito on the mound. It doesn't matter that Longoria has done in the past against OTHER pitchers. He was 1 for 2 with a HR against Saito, but he also struck out the other time, that doesn't tell me nearly enough to make a sound judgement about the SS numbers vs. the season long numbers. That's not a whole lot different than his numbers vs. LHP, Longoria has pretty even splits. But anyway Zobrist has .921 OPS vs. RHP which is indeed higher. RBIs, really? And I'm not sure where you're looking but he's batting .284/.385/.448/.832 in the second half with a higher BABIP than in the first half (.320 vs. .340). And Longoria? His BABIP in the first half was .324... ISO: .271 vs. .259, don't mind if I do 4.62 PA/K for Longoria and 5.37 PA/K for Zobrist. I overstated this a bit but still Zobrist has the edge and compared to the PA/BB (9.14 for Longoria vs. 6.37 for Zobrist) I'd say Zobrist's discipline is better pretty easily.

Prove me wrong

None of that s*** really matters because because Zobrist is not 2 for 23 vs. SAITO, he's 2 for 23 against the rest of the Red Sox pitching. And there is a reason he WAS a utility guy, because he wasn't very good, but he's a tremendous success story due to the work of a coach who completely changed his batting mechanics and transformed him into the hitter he is today. You have to pick your poison but I'd prefer facing the guy with the ~.890 OPS who strikes out a lot compared to the .970 OPS guy who doesn't strike out as much.

I'd rather face Longoria than Zobrist

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CAJUNS

crow anyone?

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wow

NAILS

Noooo, Bard even on his worst day is better than Delcarmen

NO, you're an *******

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