Bellhorn04
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We had a poll here on how Bloom is doing. 2 people voted great, 7 voted OK and 4 voted terrible. Yet you persist with this delusion that the board is overrun with blind Bloom followers. Frankly I think it just makes things more fun for you here to keep talking about these blind followers that don't actually exist.
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I've seen and heard enough over the years to think that a large number of baseball fans know a fair amount about their team's top prospects.
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The struggles of Duran are more evidence of the Red Sox horrendous record of producing players through the draft post-2011. -
And you read very selectively here.
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I think that's nonsense, frankly.
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That figures. You think they're all full of blind, irrational devotion.
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The point is that even old-timers never relied totally on the eye test. They looked at box scores, leaders in batting average, home runs and RBI's etc. They sure as heck didn't watch every game. It wasn't even possible to watch most of the games back then.
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Saying he's done nothing to warrant optimism seems like a form of denial. 2021 ALCS appearance. Big improvement in farm ranking.
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I think there's something about the word 'metrics' that bugs a lot of people.
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That's the pessimistic take, sure. I'm hoping it goes the other way.
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Story's career fWAR per game is just a little lower than Bogey's. And fWAR does take into account the Coors Park Factor.
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We've been over this so many times. I don't have to know how everything in my car works in order to drive it. I accept that it's been designed and built by people who have all the expertise in that area. That's the way the world works.
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I wasn't really on board until after 1967. 1972 was my first heartache season. Then came 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1978. For me 1978 will always be the worst. With 1986 a solid second.
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At the end of the day, all Red Sox fans like the same thing-Red Sox wins. And hate the same thing-Red Sox losses. The rest is just stuff to jabber about for entertainment purposes.
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Some people find the "all I need is the eye-test" people a real pain in the ass too. I think we all just need to accept each others' different views.
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You have to use your eyes to read every stat there is. Ergo, advanced stats are part of the eye-test. Done.
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Us old-time Sox fans waited till next year right up until 2004.
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I honestly think a lot of the so-called "Bloom supporters" will withdraw their support if he lets them down in 2023.
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I loved the Old Sporting News. I also loved Baseball Digest. Now here's a question: is reading a box score part of the eye-test?
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I'll just tackle the base-running one. The principle is that over the course of a season, good/fast base-running is going to result in more runs than bad/slow base-running. Mookie Betts is going to produce more runs with his feet than J. D. Martinez, for example. That's easy enough to understand. The WAR calculations attempt to determine exactly how many runs a good base-runner has added, compared to a baseline player-the infamous "replacement player". The replacement player is sort of the same thing we hear called an AAAA player.
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It means watching some games the Red Sox lost and Bradley stunk, and in the middle of that, someone mentions that Renfroe just hit another homer.
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Maybe the fairest comparison would be Red Sox WAR for RF vs. Brewers WAR for RF.
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And don't forget they traded JP Sears to Oakland in the Montas trade. Sears had a 2.05 ERA in 22 innings with the Yankees. He has a 1.74 ERA in 10.1 innings with the A's.
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One thing I would love to know about the Betts trade is how seriously the Sox brass considered whether the Dodgers might sign him to an extension, or how much that possibility concerned them. Maybe they preferred he stay with an NL team so we wouldn't have to play against him in another uniform much, who knows.
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"Might" - not a very strong belief, then.
