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  1. User Name
    You bring up a valid point. A lot of fans have spent every minute of every day since the Sox weere eliminated complaining about the way this FO has thrown money around on worthless players without doing "due dilligence" or just flat out not making a good investment on them. So now that the FO seems to be thinking twice about throwing money around on a contract that, by all indications could be an enormous bust given the typical variability in reliever performance, those same fans are throwing a hissy-fit over the Red Sox letting Papelbon go. You can't have it both ways. And the FO really does need to improve the way they evaluate FA's. Maybe this is the start of that.
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    Red Sox fans have a new scapegoat: His name is Ben Cherington.
  3. User Name
    Hahaha that's so awesome and true.
  4. User Name
    You're the resident Yankee fan downer aren't you?
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    I understand, but one of them could pan out, specially Nathan, who looked good at the end of last year.
  6. User Name
    What i meant was, sign those three and pray for rain haha.
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    Lidge, Broxton, Nathan. /offseason.
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    That didn't turn out so well either, so i can see Palodios' point.
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    RC+ also has its detractors, just like OPS+. Detractors say it's not as good for the adjustment of park and league factors . Should i go ahead and bring up the ideas of one group of detractors and present them as gospel? Because that's the point. Every stat has its limitations, but the more noise a stat eliminates the better.
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    By the way, Tango's main two disagreement with OPS+ stem from two issues: 1) The difficulty of calculation. 2) Scaling issues which don't allow the stat to present the results on a "direct" basis. For instance, if a player is 50% better than league average, his OPS+ would not be 150%, but rather 200%. You may want to practice what you preach.
  11. User Name
    You forgot something.
  12. User Name
    Not like them. With them.
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    Then you didn't read what i said. I didn't say they weren't sabers. I said they weren't the only sabers. Which they are not. I know who Tango is. I respect his opinion on the flaws of sabermetric analysis, and they have value. Sometimes i (and other sabers and people who have also written books on the subject, like Gabriel Costa and several authors from baseball Prospectus) disagree with that opinion. Succes of Playing the percentages aside, Tango is not the definitive authority on sabermetrics. There isn't one. I could waste my time posting other people's "resume" in regards to sabermetrics research, but their resume doesn't influence my opinion on statistics. My personal research does.
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    So they're the only group of sabermetricians out there? And their "opinion" is gospel? I stand corrected.
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    The Sox have officially contacted the agent for Grady Sizemore. Why?
  16. User Name
    Tango is not "the sabermetricians". Stop that.
  17. User Name
    wOBA. In context, in about 90% of the situations, it's better to not make an out than to trade an out for a run.
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    For the record, i came over from TalkPats, since i am exclusively a Red Sox and Patriots fan.
  19. User Name
    2004 Red Sox, 2007 Red Sox, most Yankee teams of this decade. You want your higher OPS guys in the spots where they will get the most AB's, AKA 1-5.
  20. User Name
    I've also been a Red Sox fan all my life. :harhar:
  21. User Name
    Everything has its limitations. In this case, we're looking for the "best available", and by the best available we mean the one that eliminates the most noise (outside factors) from the evaluation.
  22. User Name
    Both the "pure scouting" and "pure sabermetric" approach to baseball have their flaws. You need a combination of both for competent player evaluation. Since we're on the subject, what do you believe to be the best tool for player evaluation and/or direct player-to-player comparison?
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    Everywhere in the lineup, but that's just the way i see it.
  24. User Name
    What he says is that it's not a better option because of the "level of complexity required to get there". I'm assuming he's definitely half-assing it then.
  25. User Name
    Close to 12 million.
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