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  1. User Name
    Fair enough.
  2. User Name
    This is a fair point. What Uehara has always lacked is durability, not the ability to dominate.
  3. User Name
    Damn it, the spat is the party harmony. Don't you try to force your username on us.
  4. User Name
    By the way: Papelbon 2006-2009: 1.74 ERA, 271 ERA+, 2.41 FIP, 0.917 WHIP, 10.6 K/9, 5.20 K/BB, 151 savees. Rivera 2006-2009: 2.03 ERA, 223 ERA+, 2.60 FIP, 0.914 WHIP, 8,8 K/9, 6.78 K/BB, 147 saves. If you understand the meaning of the word "arguable", then I fail to see how you can flat out state that Rivera (or anyone else) was conclusively superior to Papelbon during his four-year peak.
  5. User Name
    Disagree on point 1, absolutely agree on point 2.
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    Reliable, not elite. And it's not such a "stupid" argument when the stats bear out Koji being the more dominant (but not more durable) reliever. Stupid is refuting the entire statistical element of the discussion on a "because I say so" basis. And for the record, Gagne was the best reliever in baseball for the short time of his peak, that's indisputable.
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    Price better not f*** this up.
  8. User Name
    You countered a relative statement with an absolute statement (which you did not back up in any way). That's not how arguments work. Are you sure you're not a troll? Because you have a lot of troll-ish qualities.
  9. User Name
    How would I talk about all time if Uehara made the jump to the US just a couple years ago? I also clearly stated the comparison is right now. You're just moving the goalposts to defend a lost argument. Stop.
  10. User Name
    Suspicious indeed. Slant-eye phobia?
  11. User Name
    What part of "arguably" don't you understand?
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    Last 4 years Uehara: 199 ERA+, 11.4 K/9, 0.79 (!) WHIP, 2.09 ERA, 7.84 K/BB, 2.41 FIP Last 4 years Papelbon: 161 ERA+, 8.1 K/9, 1.043 WHIP, 2.40 ERA, 4.40 K/BB, 3.10 FIP. Uehara has been a better reliever by any conceivable measure other than sv% (which can be influenced by a number of factors, by the way). Please Talksox, remove Papelbon's balls from your collective face. He's good, he's durable, but he's not the elite reliever he used to be.
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    So the fact that Uehara is worlds better than Papelbon at preventing baserunners and runs over a four-year period does not mean he was better? And let's just ignore the enormous WHIP/K% advantage because it doesn't suit your argument. Also, if you want to discount Uehara's best year as an outlier, you have to discount Papelbon's best year as well. Solid use of logic there, Plato. Also, over his prime, Papelbon was arguably the best closer in baseball. But we're not comparing prime Papelbon to Uehara, we are comparing their present-day versions, a point which I clearly outlined above. Stick to the point.
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    How dare you! Farrell is perfect and his moves are not to be questioned by us fans and our lack of insider knowledge! Just you wait so you can feel the wrath of Max!
  15. User Name
    But the umpires don't have control over fines. They can, however, eject managers and players at their discretion.
  16. User Name
    Oy vey.
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    Also, if there's a weakness to Kimbrel's game, it's his inability to start pitching in the middle of an inning with men on base. Most of his blow-ups have come in precisely those situations.
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    Are you serious? Over the last several seasons Uehara has bested Papelbon in essentially every statistical category. Can you please at least check the statistics and not come up with the "oh, he's the greatest in Sox history"? ********. That Papelbon is long gone. The current model is good, but nowhere near as dominant or consistent as he was in his heyday. Please inform yourself before jumping onto the conversation, or go back to your typical pattern of only posting to whine about the Red Sox.
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    In a nutshell, yes. With Erod coming back, if he's effective, they may need the reliever even more than the starter.
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    Did Koji steal your lunch money when you were a kid? You're consistently hanging on Papelbon's balls and how awesome he is, yet he has to be treated with pretty much the same care Uehara is. The main difference is that, as a closer, he can be deployed much more carefully than Koji is right now as a set up man, so he's being exposed. And make no mistake, handled with the same care, Koji is better than Papelbon. No ifs or buts about it.
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    That's because theyre given a gray area "leeway" in what's called a "borderline strike". Check out a gameday game one of these days, and you'll see this gray area in all its majesty. It's pretty significant.
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    It's not that "there would be ways". There already are ways, and MLB is using them right now with their Gameday and umpire grading systems.
  23. User Name
    And he had not allowed a run in while.
  24. User Name
    "Chubby knuckleballer" lolwtf?
  25. User Name
    Of course you could. There is technology that handles that measurement for gameday, and it's been available for years. What are you even talking about?
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