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  1. If he can stay healthy and performs something close to 2020 he will be a huge boost for this team this season.
  2. Unfortunately it is correct Ted. I wanted to see Duran play badly.
  3. You said he was very good that year moon. He wasn’t.
  4. Hopefully both teams are oks. I guess the whole series will be postponed.
  5. Seems he will take a platoon role.
  6. His career numbers are not a short sample. He is a 4.0 ERA career pitcher. That’s not very good as I said. While ERA doesn’t tell you all true, his 2020 SIERA, xFIP, FIP are in the same highway of his 2020 ERA, hence his 2020 ERA is actually telling you what kind of pítcher Matt Barnes was — not very good.
  7. Moon said his 2017-2020 tenure was very good. 2020 wasn’t very good. I think we both agree on that. Said that, IMO Barnes’ career numbers hasn’t been very good. He is a 4.0 ERA career pitcher. It’s that simple. No matter how you slice it. You can argue that ERA is a primitive stat but a 4.0 ERA career RP (specially a RP) can’t be very good in my book, sorry. Aside stats, his command always was an issue. It’s not a secret. Lately his command has been shaky but all in all he’s been terrific this year.
  8. I think I have agreed most of the times with moon. He is a good poster, no doubt, but I do not agree with him regarding clutch and Duran lol I think this forum always have had great posters through time. Some have gone and some have come. Some are still here. It’s not a secret that my fav posters are still A700 (mi compadre), jung, Bell, jacko, SSDewey, and few others who doesn’t post here anymore. I’m not at their level, not even close. I had some issues with MVP specially when username? was around but I do respect him a lot and always appreciate his explanations. I think he is one of the posters who knows better our farm.
  9. OPS against is not a run prevention estimator. It is batted ball stat. Run prevention estimators are FIP, xFIP, SIERA, etc. those stats isolate pitcher’s skills. When those stats are on the same highway of ERA’s, ERA defines pretty well pitcher’s skills. Barnes’ run prevention estimators weren’t very good in 2020 as you suggested.
  10. Compare their career mvp. One is elite. The other is average.
  11. are you going to compare Barnes with JD? really? lol Also I never said DFA Barnes. I'm just saying he wasn't a very good RP. That's all. JD has been an elite bat all-in-all.
  12. You are throwing s*** to the wall hoping some stick moon. Again, his run prevention estimators in 2020 were not very good. His standard stats were not very good. His advanced stats were not very good. His peripherals were not very good, oh wait, but you found out that that his "OPS Against" is around league average which by definition is not very good.
  13. When ERA and run prevention estimators are in the same highway, ERA is a realistic stat to evaluate any pitcher. In Barnes' case his ERA and run prevention estimators are in the same highway specially in 2020, which are not very good.
  14. Moon will tell you that clutch is not a pitching skill and that ERA is not a good a stat to evaluate a RP though lol
  15. lol well, I give him that.
  16. Another I wanted to see in the team. Love how this team is looking. Maybe we won't need to trade anybody, and Sale is still pending.
  17. Arroyo and Renfroe were huge question marks who turned out into pleasant surprises. OTOH Santana, Chavis and Marwin brought vey little to the table. You can't evaluate them if you don't let them play a fair chunk of time. I don't discard that possibility at all, in fact I think that was the main reason Duran wasn't called up earlier, plus the team was winning.
  18. yup, it can go the other way too.
  19. You said that ERA+ ERA- are not even good as OPS, and in the very next paragraph you use ERA+ to say he was very good. Kind of the point. Said that, Barnes never was a very good RP before 2021. Numbers speak for itself.
  20. are you really this dense? when I say everybody went to Nick's neck I mean most people were against his opinion. It's just an expression man. Chill. You are taking this so serious moon. Relax lol
  21. if he isn't called up it doesn't necessary mean he isn't ready. As I said, maybe he was ready but maybe Bloom wanted to finish his evaluations first to open him a spot. Yo do not know. We don't know. Rusney Castillo was ready but they didn't wanted to call him up because of an administrative issue. Not always the timing is synced when a player is ready and when he is called up... again it doesn't necessary mean a player isn't ready. Those are different things.
  22. Not really. I just asked the situation of Duran here and there but that was it. The Duran calling up discussion actually intensified few weeks ago when everybody went to Nick's neck.
  23. Now who is making assumptions lol You don't know that. Maybe he was finishing his evaluations of our question marks first in order to open a spot for him. Maybe he was ready a month ago or earlier when he was crushing the ball. We don't know but is very likely.
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