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  1. mvp 78
    http://www.obscure.org/~bob/stuff/coke.html Stop letting the wool get pulled over your eyes!
  2. mvp 78
    Needed another pitcher to put in the rotation since they'll be trading Fernandez to the Sox this weekend.
  3. mvp 78
    The "well rested" argument falls flat when you are talking about a pitcher in his 40's with health concerns that was leading his team in appearances. You can't run an old car into the ground, let it sit for a week and then expect it to drive cross country.
  4. mvp 78
    That's not how any of this works.
  5. mvp 78
    http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=3184&position=P His ERA will be under 4 by year end. Wright, our "real ace," will have a worse ERA than that by year end. He already has 151 K's. He hasn't given up a HR in the last 4 starts. That has been his biggest bugaboo all year.
  6. mvp 78
    He hasn't started a game since High School.
  7. mvp 78
    Just install a pitching clock and robot umps if you want to speed up the game.
  8. mvp 78
    I'm with you on this one. I've also done a bunch of pregaming tonight.
  9. mvp 78
    If this team doesn't wreck Weaver, we're truly f'd.
  10. mvp 78
    Aside from Espinoza and Margot, that's a whole lotta nothin.
  11. mvp 78
    Demotion to the bullpen? No.
  12. mvp 78
    Why pitch to Cabrera in the 9th when he's 5 for 8 against Ziegler?
  13. mvp 78
    At worst, he's thrown into LF or 1B. We'll have to see if he's serviceable at 3B next year.
  14. mvp 78
    http://deadspin.com/dont-play-rock-paper-scissors-with-the-tigers-1784406294 And they are still going to sweep the Sox...
  15. mvp 78
    JFC, just looked at Groome's birthdate. Now I feel like a senior citizen.
  16. mvp 78
    Betts and Ortiz have similar WAR and Ortiz doesn't have the benefit of getting defensive WAR. Papi's current SLG is the highest of his career. He's arguably having the second best year of his career (07 probably better). His leadership and visibility off the field is just as important as Betts' defense in RF.
  17. mvp 78
    And they'll lose their best player in the meantime.
  18. mvp 78
    Groome is already ranked higher at the Soxprospects Ledger.
  19. mvp 78
    The manager should take the credit for the wins and for the losses. It's one thing to split a series with a bottom rung team like the Twins. It's another to be swept at home by a mediocre team like the Tigers. If the season slips away, Farrell is the easiest scapegoat.
  20. mvp 78
    I'm surprised Kopech is untouchable.
  21. mvp 78
    Devers has a chance to be better than Moncada (can't hit righthanded) and Benintendi (small, not overly athletic).
  22. mvp 78
    The Palmiero award was about perception, not about watch people actually saw. That's not personal observation. Same with Jeter. These people weren't observing Jeter playing defense the way you or I observe the Sox play defense. I watch enough games to know that this team is better defensively than many Sox teams I grew up watching.
  23. mvp 78
    Jeter won the awards due to name recognition, NOT due to personal observation. Those are two completely different things.
  24. mvp 78
    Now, that being said, there is still a potentially large gap between what you might see on the field if you were to watch every play of every game and what UZR “says” happened on the field. And that is one of several reasons why one year or even 10 years of UZR (or any other sample metric) does not give us a perfect estimate of a player’s true talent or even an accurate picture of what actually happened on the field. The reason for that is that the data is imperfect. For example, UZR might put a certain batted ball in a certain bucket and determine that that batted ball was extremely difficult for the CF’er to catch, based on the recorded (by the BIS “stringers”) qualities of the ball and other data. We don’t, of course, know for sure whether it was indeed a difficult to field batted ball. We don’t know exactly where each fielder was stationed, we certainly don’t know the exact location of the batted ball to the nearest square inch on the field, and we definitely don’t know how long the ball was in the air or on the ground. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-fangraphs-uzr-primer/
  25. mvp 78
    http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=8185&position=P His starts since the beginning of summer have been troubling to say the least.
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