Emmz
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A healthy Crawford and Ellsbury means a chance to go from C+/B hitting to A hitting. It's not over, and everyone's just conceded that the rotation makes no improvement. The "it's over" crowd will change their tune if they go on a tear, and bitch the second they drop consecutive games. Lots of time left people.
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Only if he starts hitting again. If he starts hitting again, I will eat a lot of crow, but going on his past, I am seriously doubting it.
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I like rubbing it in because of how blind some people are to the reality, which is that Salty is pretty average. It's to illustrate a point.
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Salty's OPS is almost down to where I said it would be, high 700s. He's elite for a couple months a year, and miserable for a few more. We'll see how it ends, though.
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2007 was many many years ago? And no, no one was twisting the question, this started as "it's all about pitching" and evolved into it's "mostly about pitching" to now, "pitching is somewhat favored, but not to the extreme we thought before".
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Uhh, D. Extremely disappointing. I still think this team can make it, but they need their s*** together, and they need luck.
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And hitting directly effects pitching. It wears down the pitcher, it can give and take confidence, it can make things easier or more difficult, especially mentally.
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No one's blinded by fandom, pitching isn't significantly more important than hitting. You can't score runs, you don't win. You throw a no-hitter, you can still lose. Run differential is the name of the game, by definition.
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I say you ban him for bypassing the database error.
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Well it doesn't account for anything but what could easily be coincidence. You cannot win games without scoring a run, you can win games if you give up any number of runs, theoretically. I agree that pitchers are the most valuable players when they take the field, without a doubt, but it doesn't necessarily make pitching more valuable than hitting.
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Anyways, in the grand scheme it's run support and run stopping together, and if you do one miserably and the other... Uhhh, elitely... You're probably not winning anything. If you can't consistently outscore your ERA, you will lose a lot.
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Pitching is more important game-by-game than hitting. I don't think I ever disputed that, but rather that it's not all about pitching. Great pitching can amount to nothing, just like hitting. An elite pitching team always seems to miss the playoffs.
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It doesn't even say what the below-average offense goes by. Can you find out?
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Pops, you're getting it almost, but its just common sense. The team that has the run differential wins every time out. Every game, you get the most runs you win. How is this not the easiest concept to grasp? Pitching is one dimension of the game, that is it. Every game you play, you need everything going. So what if you got a shutout, what if they do too? You want an offense that can challenge an ace pitcher.
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Teams ranked less than 4th in their league? Cherrypicking much? How about teams ranked top-5 that missed the playoffs entirely? Absolutely ludacris way of making your point. And the fact that teams ranked outside your top four won it 4 times out of the last 12 (1/3 of the time) speaks for itself. That whole series of stats not only fails to tell me how pitching is more important, but hardly establishes an importance on pitching.
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You didn't even show how it was more important. The team who wins is always the one who has the run differential in their favor. You show me how pitching is more important or you're still incorrect.
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You're not accounting for the importance of runs at all with your system. I've made my point.
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Bigger Albatross Contract: Crawford or Arod?
Emmz replied to Rdsxmbnt's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Crawford has the best chance to redeem the remainder, as A-Rod is established as being over the hill. Crawford needs to step up though, he's really panning out as an all-time bust right now. -
That means they scored 0-2 a bunch of times, and came up short even when they scored 4-5 a lot. What about the Phillies, 3 legit aces, no title. What about the Rays, constantly an elite run-prevention team, and no titles. All of those A's and Twins teams with good pitching? How many titles they got? How about the Braves in the 90s? Absolutely incorrect, this isn't even a matter of subjectivity. You are incorrect.
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