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  1. I don't think he'll be traded. I think we'll see Leon or Vazquez traded.
  2. Jeter's postseason OPS was 102.57% of his regular season OPS. Therefore, clutch. A-Rod's postseason OPS was 88.39% of his regular season OPS. Therefore, choke. (I'm not being entirely serious with that.)
  3. LOL well played.
  4. Would the Players Union let him do this?
  5. I wonder what the statshounds would say if you asked them if they agree or disagree with this?
  6. That was my comment. Just a dumb joke about Periscope sounding like porn...
  7. They are paying him 11 million this year, correct? Let's say they trade him and have to eat 5 million of the 11 million, just for example. They have saved 6 million. So then the question is, how much will be the tax cost of paying the 5 million of his salary? I can't see it being 6 million or more. But there are non-monetary considerations of going over the tax threshold as well... Now you've got me doing this...
  8. That might be a good point too...this stuff is getting complicated. Even our esteemed WEEI writers are getting all confused.
  9. If Craig shows some signs of rebounding we might be able to trade him, as you say we'd have to eat some of it.
  10. I think the plan was for Hanley to play first against lefty starters. Young would probably DH those games.
  11. As Thunder says he was on the DL in July last year. We're not expected to score as many runs this year without Papi. I'd put the over/under at 60.
  12. Cot's Contracts has us under by about $15 million. That piece by Bradford/Tomase is inexcusable gibberish.
  13. I believe you're right. The MLBTR statement seems to be counting Castillo's full salary for 2017 for tax purposes.
  14. Yes, I think we've actually reached a consensus that clutch is absence of choking rather than going to a higher level.
  15. Being totally dismissive and bringing the Tooth Fairy into it doesn't really get us anywhere. Anecdotal evidence from current and former players is a legitimate source of information to be considered, although it has to be supported by some verifiable specifics.
  16. I find it hard to believe we can't call Ortiz or Schilling clutch players. That's what seems a little ridiculous about this.
  17. Okay, choking and non-choking, then.
  18. I love the quote I came across in one of the columns about this. Apparently it comes from the great Donald Rumsfeld. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
  19. Not this one, it'll never be closed.
  20. But choking does. We've agreed on that much, haven't we?
  21. You're right in the sense that there are a pile of variables in the data, and the 'strength of opposition' has to be factored in. Analyzing this much data is a massive undertaking, that's for sure.
  22. I think your giant red beard may be altering your personality.
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