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  1. Bellhorn04
    So is OPS a statistic?
  2. Bellhorn04
    Here's a scary thought - what would Natick's posts look like if they did what he suggested and Swihart couldn't get above the Mendoza line either?
  3. Bellhorn04
    Now try to explain why WAR ISN'T a statistic.
  4. Bellhorn04
    I see it referred to as a statistic in some places, a calculation in others. It's kind of splitting hairs to say it isn't a stat, really.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Leon is 7 for his last 17. You'll be waving the pom-poms for him before you know it.
  6. Bellhorn04
    That was a good crop, you're right.
  7. Bellhorn04
    ERod vs. Hess Let's win 75% of the games in this series please.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Vaztard, nice.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Just referring to the 2 most popular places to get the WAR numbers from - FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Porcello vs. Bundy Beat up on Bundy and win going away please.
  11. Bellhorn04
    You're being silly. Vazquez threw out 21 out of 50 who tried to steal on him last year.
  12. Bellhorn04
    We could go on and on about Ben, and we probably will. He did some very good things but the team also made some terrible blunders in his tenure. Whether they were all his blunders or not we'll never know. Until Larry Lucchino's deathbed confessions, perhaps.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I got you except for the last sentence. How many players graduate from the minors to the majors each year on average, would you say?
  14. Bellhorn04
    Late starts to the season can be killers for pitchers. Alex Cobb was absolutely horrific his first few starts. Pomeranz might not be 100% physically, though. One more start like last night and he'll be sent to the DL, I expect.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I don't think the state of catching is any worse than it's ever been. Good hitting, good defense catchers have always been a rare species.
  16. Bellhorn04
    'Quality start' is just a made-up stat, of course.
  17. Bellhorn04
    OK, let's say they should have given Vaz a couple more weeks in AAA in 2016. What should they have done with Swihart after those couple more weeks?
  18. Bellhorn04
    Sale's last start wasn't a bad one. 2 runs in 5 innings. But 102 pitches, so Cora wisely elected to get him out of there.
  19. Bellhorn04
    It might be argued that having 2 young catching prospects like Vazquez and Swihart was bound to become a problem at some point. I think we felt it was one of those 'good problems to have'. But I think it turned out to be a problem for Swihart, and perhaps for the team as well.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Your position is reasonable. Larry's is not.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I think Vazquez will be fine. We're much more likely to be in the market for bullpen help.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Metrics were good to Blair. Also good to Mark Belanger, who ended his career with a .580 OPS but a bWAR of 40.9.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Somewhere John Farrell is smiling. Oh well, I guess Sale threw a lot less in the spring, before the games that count started. But it's pretty hard to minimize the number of pitches thrown by your stud horse when you're in what shapes up as a season-long division battle with the Yanks and you have a short window to try to win it all...isn't it?
  24. Bellhorn04
    Under the Mendoza line in mid-May, though. If anything, the numbers suggest a guy like Vazquez will go on a bit of a hot streak and end the season hitting .240 or so. That's the way I'm sure team management is looking at it. Fans tend to just look at the current BA and freak out about it.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I guess JH didn't think much of the last place finishes under Ben. Say what you want but under DD we have 2 first place finishes and a great start this year. I get all the cliff talk, but saying he hasn't done well in the short term is kind of stupid, Larry.
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