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  1. sk7326
    Montreal makes sense - what the league did to them was criminal. Mexico City sounds good - but the economics and the security are an issue - it would be hard for FAs to go there. But a natural to me is Austin, which could capture San Antonio as a secondary market. A team somewhere in North Carolina would also make some sense. If they do that, going to four 8 team divisions and balancing the schedules would be good.
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    Hard to say - the Phillies did end up paying him more AAV
  3. sk7326
    I don't deny it - but it's a place to put a guy who can rake ... I am not trying to rain on Ramirez' parade, but if he weren't so transcendentally awful in LF last season, I suspect the discussion this season would not feel so amazing.
  4. sk7326
    Strikeout rate is a career high 31% - so the first approximation says this will get better ...
  5. sk7326
    It's because 1B is the position where you move bats without positions (when the DH is not an option).
  6. sk7326
    No. People are just amazed Hanley can walk onto the baseball field without tripping over his shoelaces.
  7. sk7326
    The pitch framing is amazing
  8. sk7326
    Sox are in a serious zone ... enjoy it while it lasts. Sox are on a 920 run pace
  9. sk7326
    It's a lefty - this is Young's one special baseball talent
  10. sk7326
    The baseball spaghetti monster put Chris Young on this earth to hit lefthanded pitching ... fortunately we are now starting to see more of it
  11. sk7326
    There are no absolutes. The system player of the year is always weird to me - it's a nice way to recognize guys who play well, but the correlation with how the org views its prospects does not seem that high. The Lars Anderson, Andy Marte's of the world make the whole scouting thing a particular bear.
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    The Cubs

    sk7326 replied to iortiz's topic in Other Baseball

    Cubs are the league's best team right now - but we also know it's baseball - and being the best team is worth less in the postseason than it is in any other sport. It will be a fun ride.
  13. sk7326
    Probably - although wOBA is not very difficult to explain at all. It's really just correcting slugging percentage.
  14. sk7326
    oh it's Vasquez or Bradley. Bogaerts' range is never going to be amazing, but he has done a very good job. Errors are for the most part useless for conveying this sort of information. Ramirez has been good - but I wonder how much credit we are giving him because he has not been the toxic sewage dump he was last year.. Being valedictorian is nice - but if you're the valedictorian of summer school, it's a bit less impressive Our up the middle is really good - the corners are adequate but definitely the weaker part of the defense. Fortunately that is better than the reverse. I don't think we are adding value to our run prevention the way that Kansas City has - but it is a breath of fresh air compared to 2015.
  15. sk7326
    I can see it - but I am not sure how much Owens was getting out of not throwing strikes and making old Dice-K starts look like Greg Maddux ones.
  16. sk7326
    "@jonahkeri Chili Davis once told reporters "If you don't get laid in Montreal,you're really in a slump""
  17. sk7326
    Yes. The sample is too small to say anything about a guy's quality - but it is enough to say whether things have gone well or not. It's like how a .300 hitter than go 0 for 10. It doesn't mean the guy is .000 but it is still a rough 10 at-bats.
  18. sk7326
    What is fun is that the attack has found a sort of happy hybrid of the Royals sort of high contact, gap hitting and old school take and rake Red Sox. Shaw and Bogaerts have both gotten off to MVP-flavoured starts. Striking difference in the left side of the infield.
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    The data is very noisy so far - he is not off to a great start clearly. But you really need 2 seasons of data to make any conclusions about the player. Bradley is more likely to bounce back.
  20. sk7326
    Cards are 17-16 with the NL's 2nd best run differential. They are not sellers. Now they could move Holliday for value reasons but they have no reason to give up on 2016.
  21. sk7326
    Yeah, but it's early - early enough that buyers and sellers have not separated too much. More than that, I was spitballing. A Hector Santiago sort from the Angels is another ... again, nothing special, but just somebody who has some fairly low variability. That said, when Rodriguez returns that final slot will most likely rise up to "acceptable". Owens disappointed me - I liked the idea of at least putting in the guy who had some actual swing and miss in him. But you gotta throw strikes. When your starts make Dice-K's look like Greg Maddux, you got a problem.
  22. sk7326
    .340 BABIP is the highest in the majors in years - so you expect some regression here. The good thing is the Red Sox are beating up on poor pitching. We focus on beating good teams, but really good seasons are built on feasting on #4 starters and not messing around with lesser opponents. So all of this is good. Bogaerts has quietly had an MVP-caliber start to the season.
  23. sk7326
    Maybe one more starter - heck, re-acquiring Wade Miley would fit the bill.
  24. sk7326
    How many innings of each?
  25. sk7326
    Also there is the question of statistical significance since there are vastly more "lead situations" than ties - it's a bit of a chicken and egg thing. You keep the pitcher in a glass container - then there won't be many alternate uses to draw from. Now could protecting a tie not be as amping as protecting a lead? Maybe - but it is hard to see. Often when the announcers talk of the closer letting down it is coming in to a blowout. A tie is still pretty high leverage.
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