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6 righties (Betts, Bogaerts, Pedroia, Ramirez, Young, Vasquez) and three lefties (Ortiz, Shaw, Bradley)

Or he could be given the tools to improve his strike zone, while MLB uses the same tools to measure his effectiveness.

Check out gameday yourself. It shows the "gray area" given to leeway for the umpires.

This too.

In 2016? And with a system that has been in place for 10+ years and has never malfunctioned? Yeah, find another excuse.

Actually, I met Moises Alou when I was in 7th grade and got a glove autographed by him, which I lost.

I answered that just above this question. It's a 3d model with included pitch trajectory. It not only shows where the pitch "ended up" but how it traveled to/through the zone (if it's a strike in this case).

You can actually rotate the gameday strike zone just like that, and with even more in-depth pitch trajectory/velocity data if you have the premium At-Bat package.

It's a fully scaled 3d model adjusted to batter height on an ab to ab basis. I am on my phone but I will post the link to the specs and description later.

I am saying that argument is incorrect. It is not a strawman. He is as fragile as people say. I'm doubling down on that statement by proving that on the rare occasions when he isn't, he sucks so bad that scrambling to replace him in a non-lost season might be a need either way.

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Ortiz, Hanley, Pedro, all here in the Dominican. I even took a photo with Ortiz which I display proudly in my Facebook!

It's illogical if you're bending logic to prove a point. That is the definition of illogical

I mean, I still think Buchholz' option had to be picked up, but let's stick to actual facts here: Fact A) Buchholz has not combined the ability to prevent runs at an above-average clip while providing enough innings to qualify for the ERA title as stated by rule 10.22 ( since 2010. In fact, he has pitched enough innings to qualify for the ERA title only two times in the last five seasons. 2011: 82.2 IP, 124 ERA+ 2012: 189.1 IP, 92 ERA+ 2013: 108.1 IP, 237 ERA+ 2014: 170.1 IP, 75 ERA+ 2015: 113.1 IP, 131 ERA+ Fact B ) Innings pitched in a minor league setting are unimportant to the Major league club, are usually a direct result of injury and/or ineffectiveness, and trying to prove Buchholz' lack of fragility by using said statistics is, at best, misguided, and at worst, as I mentioned before, dishonest. Fact C) Buchholz is neither durable nor effective with any sort of consistency, and even worse, has managed to combine durability with effectiveness in very few occasions throughout his career, and none of those occasions have come in the last five years, as he has gotten older and his stuff has diminished. Those are facts.

If it's not dishonest, it's the most unsound argument I have seen during my time here. That's just terrible logic.

Well he couldn't right now, what with the bum shoulder and all.

There's not an ounce of lackadaisical on this team right now.

Without the use of hindsight, the negative trend, platoon issues, and problematic body type were clearly visible.

Because it directly collides with the objective rules of the game of baseball. If my preference was to have every inside-the-park homer be worth two runs, it's my preference, but it's against the rules.

That is incorrect. The analysis uses pitchFX/Gameday's strike zone system which, as presented before on this very thread, gives umpires a significant leeway (about the size of the baseball) to all quadrants of the strike zone. The actual reason for most of the missed calls is a bunch of umpires having strike zones that are different than the one presented by the official rulebook.

Including the minors in any analysis of Buchholz' value to the MLB club is intellectually dishonest.

Pretty much.

I did not single you out specifically for that reason. But iortiz, among others, have whined that contract into oblivion. Besides, they could have extended him, then used the money that went into the fat piece of s*** on another pitcher. Now there's a contract that's impossible to defend or salvage.

Because some people will never let facts get in the way of a good argument.