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  1. Bellhorn04
    Wild Card Game, after Red Sox/Yankees/Jays tiebreaker madness.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Pivetta, Whitlock, Kike, Renfroe...
  3. Bellhorn04
    Sure he did. Right now it feels like his acquisitions are quite a mixed bag, made up of tasty nuggets and nasty junk.
  4. Bellhorn04
    When you're the Red Sox, house money doesn't last long. If the team ends up 85-77 and out of even a play-in game, the final verdict is 3 consecutive s***** seasons.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Hmmm, sounds a little like the clutch/choke thing to me. Purely intangible, anecdotal and unprovable, but accepted as real.
  6. Bellhorn04
    OK but when you're Chaim Bloom, your forte is supposed to be finding the undervalued players.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Exactly. Big picture.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Baseball is a game that produces a lot of erratic variations. There are great players who had terrible seasons. I'm not arguing that clutch or choke is something pure and undiluted by any means. But maybe, just maybe Schilling and Ortiz had a little bit more of that quality of mental fortitude or whatever it is that made them very comfortable in big situations. Obviously that doesn't mean you're going to come through every time, because it's impossible.
  9. Bellhorn04
    No. The argument is that postseason is higher leverage.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Not a relevant argument.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Of course. But other great or very good hitters have not had good postseason numbers.
  12. Bellhorn04
    And that's where I throw up my hands. Pretty hard to argue against that kind of logic, I guess.
  13. Bellhorn04
    That argument irks me too. To me the fact that David Ortiz was great in the World Series in 2004, and again in 2007, and again in 2013, should be a point in favor of the clutch premise...
  14. Bellhorn04
    Except his WAR is going backwards now LOL
  15. Bellhorn04
    No, Beckett did not become a choke. He had a fine postseason career. In the 2008 postseason he was pretty obviously pitching hurt, but came through with a gutty performance in Game 6 of the ALCS.
  16. Bellhorn04
    ??? This was about the outfield plan. I think you misread something.
  17. Bellhorn04
    What if Houck is a lights-out 5 inning starter? Haven't we agreed that's a valuable commodity?
  18. Bellhorn04
    Of course there's variance from season to season. Like there is with everything in baseball. I don't see how that's an argument. So now you're saying that even if you have a big enough sample to show a 'clutch career', it means zilch.
  19. Bellhorn04
    According to Manfred he was issuing warnings left and right about spin rates and sticky stuff and a crackdown. So I don't think Bloom could have been entirely oblivious of the issue.
  20. Bellhorn04
    What plan was that?
  21. Bellhorn04
    Only one disagreement - Perez was good pre-Stickygate. Like Richards he's lost his grip since then.
  22. Bellhorn04
    In the clutch-choke debate, postseason numbers get rejected because they are not large enough sample sizes. At least with the leverage numbers you get some higher sample sizes.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I didn't know data could be anecdotal. And I didn't draw any conclusions about the significance. You seem to just want to shut down the whole discussion.
  24. Bellhorn04
    COVID-19 rules that were agreed on by owners and players. Don't understand the gripes, myself.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Delino is kicking ass so far.
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