Kimmi
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MLB introduces rules to speed up the pace of games.
Kimmi replied to Northern Star's topic in Other Baseball
I just read this about players not being penalized for their rituals, as long as one foot stays in the box: -
I wouldn't at all mind Hamels in the rotation. I just think his price tag is too high. The $110 mil I could live with. The prospects on top of that, especially since we've been hearing that Swihart is the starting point, I cannot live with.
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I love Napoli. I never knew that he was struggling so badly with the sleep apnea thing. He said he feels like a new man. It will be interesting to see if his new found health can translate into more on field productivity.
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Pedroia is one guy I would never bet against. But even if he doesn't have a "big year" offensively, his defense and intangibles make him very valuable to the team.
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Who becomes our next 2nd baseman depends on how Pedroia holds up. If he plays at a productive level for the length of his contract, then both Betts and Moncada will have found different positions by then. I read something where Moncada's arm did not look that great at 3B, but that he looked very good playing 2B.
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I would be sad to see Victorino go, but that deal could make sense, depending on the specific terms of the deal. Lee would be a risk, but he would only be a one year risk.
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When I first heard about the Hanley signing, his attitude was a concern to me. However, everything that I have read and heard since then has changed my mind about that. He really does seem to have matured, and he seems to have a great attitude about being back in Boston. The rapport/chemistry among these guys seems to be strong.
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LOL Spud. You told me logic wasn't allowed, so I went with this.
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Whenever possible, getting players for "just money" is preferable to having to pay both money and players. And good post. You should post more often.
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Well, he is kind of cute.
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My head somewhat agrees with you, but the emotional side of me wouldn't be at all happy about sending Pedroia packing. Emotions aside, however, even with some declining offense, Pedroia has great value to this team.
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LOL It's not that important, so don't go all Fred on me about it.
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Yes, I am all too familiar with that type of thing. It's almost like that is a requirement of being a Yankees fan. LOL I don't know how Jacko was back then, but he doesn't seem that bad now, outside of rooting for the wrong team. At least he acknowledged a good signing for the Sox. The whole chart thing is too funny though. Thanks for the explanation.
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I like charts.
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I don't claim to know or understand it all. Far from it. But I find the whole area of analytics absolutely fascinating. I remember my first post ever on a forum was about BABIP. LOL FOs have much more data at their disposal than we have. I am sure that the FO signs their players partly due to reasons about which we have no clue.
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I've seen a couple of references to "the chart". What chart might that be?
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Thank you for having the integrity to post that. Believe me, I know it's not easy to watch a player that you want sign with the 'enemy'. For a Yankees fan, you're ok.
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I was not at all expecting the Sox to sign him, but the more I read about him, the more I like the signing. This signing gives the Sox so much flexibility, both in terms of the positions that he can play and in terms of making trades more possible.
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Fine, but even if we're talking FOs, sabermetrics are not what I would consider conventional wisdom, certainly not in the way that "we need a speedy runner to bat lead off" is conventional (and false) wisdom. Saber guys are always questioning and challenging their previous findings, along with developing new analytics and technology. The field is never stagnant enough to become 'conventional'.
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I don't think sabermetrics can be considered conventional wisdom yet, at least as far as the general fan population. Among FOs? Yes, in some ways. However, the stat geeks are not resting on their laurels. As the game changes and technology becomes more advanced, they are continually refining and re-analyzing their data. They realize that what they found to be true in 2005 just might not be valid any longer. They are willing to question and re-investigate their own findings.
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To a certain degree, I agree that the FO has to own the record no matter what the reasons. There is always something they could have done differently or better. However, there is a difference between a team coming in last place due to complete incompetence of the FO and a team coming in last place due to factors that could not have been realistically expected. In other words, for me, the two last place finishes do not signify an inept FO, but rather things just breaking terribly bad.
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In baseball, anecdotal evidence is usually cherry-picked and full of bias. People are going to tend to remember the incidents that support their claim. It sounds good, but there is not much substance behind it.
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Well, this is exactly what the sabermetric community has done. They've challenged, and disproved, many of the conventional beliefs about baseball that have been accepted as true without any proof whatsoever. No one is saying that the new wisdom invalidates everything that went before, but it does invalidate a lot of the previously held beliefs.
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Another solid post SK.
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MLB introduces rules to speed up the pace of games.
Kimmi replied to Northern Star's topic in Other Baseball
As much as I advocate for the use of analytics and technology for the scouting and assessment side of baseball, I am against the use of technology during a game as a means of affecting or altering the outcome of the game. I am against instant replay, and automating balls and strikes would be an atrocity to the game, IMO.
