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  1. User Name
    How much did Wade Davis make last year again?
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    The front four of the Royals posted the following ERA's: Ventura (who was injured during much of the first half): 3.56 Young: (Who basically became a full time starter during the second half): 3.00 Volquez: 3.90 Cueto: 4.76 Other than Cueto, the Royals had a dependable front three entering the playoffs. The narrative around the Royals' rotation sucking is hyerbole. Also, you're moving the goalposts. I said myself a team can be carried by a deep, reliable BP, but that only lessens the importance of the closer, it does not magnify it. Again, closers are overrated.
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    I play softball. I can hit the ball over the wall with ease with someone grooving it over the middle of the plate. With someone changing speeds and hitting the corners, not so much.
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    The Mets's D did him no favors though.
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    Bullpen. Not just closer. The point stands. Teams have won the WS in the last decade with on-the-fly closers, rookies, middle-tier closers, you name it.
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    Hanley's swing rates, O-zone rates, in the one and outside the zone contact%, K rates and general peripherals were all around career averages except for BB%, fastball values, and BABIP. It's simple, Hanley was fouling off or making weak contact on fastballs he should have driven. All consistent with the inability to drive pitches that come with (you guessed it) a bum shoulder.
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    Ooooh right, I forgot. Worry not, for I shall be gentle.
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    A relief ace is much more valuable than a closer IMO.
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    But a closer will never have the same impact in the season or postseason as an ace starter, and that translates to the position being overrated. You can win with a mid-tier closer and a couple good setup arms, you can't without a trio of truly dependable starters. The people who created the WAR formula know and understood this, and that's why relief pitchers are, overall, not as valued as starters. and they should not be.
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    I see what you did there with that quote by the way. Not a fan.
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    Also, Hanley provided positive value against sliders from both righties and lefties last year, regardless of location. Seriously, let's stop making stuff up.
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    How the f*** would you know any of this? Why do you keep making s*** up? Why do you keep talking like you know what guys are thinking? Why why why why why?
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    I think jung is going the way of SoxSport with all his rambling.
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    Bingo. This is the point. Are we the same person? Except I'm probably younger and more handsome, but with 1/4 of the money (pesos and all that)
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    No adoration, he's just proving a convenient point: The closer positon is overrated. Koji was the 3rd option on the depth chart, and he ended up having a season for the ages, at a fraction of Papelbon's cost, and he's been better for years. Wade Davis, a throw in in a trade a couple years ago, is now the best reliever in baseball. The C position is overrated.
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    My problem isn't Papelbon specifically. It's about the closer position in general.
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    DD is going to have to get a starter mid-season either way it seems. Why that was not addressed during the offseason is beyond me.
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    Hopefully Wirght can be competent for a couple of starts.
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    You need to have a team competent enough to put a guy in the position to blow a big game in the first place. That's what I'm getting at. Also, too many teams are winning it all with SP converts making the league minimum for me to be so big on the closer position. As SK said, the separation in closer quality has been reduced drastically, because of the abundance of quality BP arms and the return to prominence of pitching.
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    That honestly depends on the amount of competence Shaw displays at third base.
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    And I still don't get the adoration for Papelbon. I honestly don't even get the adoration for Mo. Closers are overrated IMO.
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    Koji's last three years without 2013 have also been better than Papelbon's last three years. I can't find the composite numbers easily, but Koji has the edge in ERA, WHIP, ERA+, K/9, BB/9, K/BB. Papelbon only has the edge in IP. Over the last two, Papelbon has the edge in HR/9, ERA and ERA+, but Koji holds the edge in every other possible peripheral. Over the last five years Koji has been better too. And if you include 2013 in any calculation, well, you know the result. So iortiz is dead wrong because he did not check the numbers before posting. We get it, you like Papelbon, but be objective. Also, half te teams in the league find competent closers consistently without paying big bucks. Saying otherwise is dishonest.
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    Well Trump is not a politician though, he's just a jackass, so it doesn't qualify as a politics discussion.
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    He doesn't understand how WAR works fundamentally, in the least.
  25. User Name
    Touche.
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