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Clutch vs. choke - do these numbers mean anything?
moonslav59 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Baseball
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If everyone ever gets healthy, here is my prediction for the 28 man September roster: SP: Sale, Eovaldi, ERod, Pivetta, Houck RP: Barnes, Ottavino, Whitlock, Taylor, Richards, Perez, DHern, Sawamura, Brasier C: Vazquez, Plawecki 1B: Schwarber, Dalbec, Shaw 2B: Arroyo, Munoz 3B: Devers SS: Bogaerts LF: Verdugo CF: Hernandez, Duran RF: Renfroe DH: Martinez maybe Arauz or Wong over Munoz.
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Clutch vs. choke - do these numbers mean anything?
moonslav59 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Baseball
It’s speculation as to why the numbers are worse not about them being worse. We all know they are worse, but you never address any points made. To you the fact that he was worse prove the reason he was worse. That’s not how logic works. -
I loved Manny’s nonchalance approach at the plate, although he really worked super hard on hitting behind the scenes. The nonchalance on defense never endeared me.
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Manny was the best RH’d hitter I have ever seen. Rice was awesome, too.
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Agreed. I’m not sure the options thing matters more than who is better. They both might be gone if DHern returns.
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We are running low on players to activate. There goes some of the best discussion posts. We have Brasier in rehab. We have Arroyo on the IL with no clear timetable for his return. We have DHern still on the IL with a return estimate listed as September. We have Santana on the IL, but who the F cares? ________________________ So, here's my 2 cents: Brasier activated from 60 day IL, Santana DFA'd and Davis demoted to AAA (Robles has no options remaining.) Arroyo promoted: Arauz demoted D Hern promoted: Robles DFA'd or kept on the Sept expanded roster. (Or, add Munoz to 40 and call him up for Sept.)
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Papi never bugged me, even when he smashed the phone off the wall. I guess it does all just come down to whether I like the guy or not. You caught me.
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First of all, the "end of last season" was almost the whole season, so using that against Ottavino is a bit much. Plus, the guy had 18 IP, last year. Do we want to say he sucks late year based on one bad game in 2020? 2019: .624 Season OPS Against .637 OPS Aug to SEP (2.79 ERA) 2018: .509 Season OPS Against .592 OPS Against but a 4.44 ERA AUG>SEP Over his career, his worst months are: June .867 July .743 SEP .704 (Not bad at all) Barnes' worst OPS Against months-career: .881 Aug .724 June .704 Sep (not bad at all) Recent years? 2019: .608 in SEP (.891 Aug) 2018: .772 in SEP (1.044 Aug) Looks like Barnes has not liked August, too much, but 2020... 1.012 July .744 Aug .566 Sep
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That's weird, because the guys who bust up the dugout after a K kinda bugged me. Like Trot Nixon. (Cue: Nixon love stories.)
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Only if you look very closely.
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Not a repeatable skill.
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I guess I didn't, then.
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I resemble that remark!
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I take everything back: he's the greatest!
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I guess another thing that bugged me about MG was that he looked so promising after 1987-88. He was just 24, and had a 155 OPS+ in those two years combined.(41 HRs in 1000 ABs) He finished his Sox & MLB career at age 32 with a 111 OPS+ from ages 25-32. He never hit more than 15 HRs in a season after 1988. Dwight Evans he was not.
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The guy could hit. I won't take that away from him.
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That does cut into come from behind wins, for sure.
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Sarcasm translates poorly online.
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But he failed the "Moon likes him" test.
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My ex-brother in law called his defense, "I'll pick the ball up when it stops rolling." What annoyed the hell out of my about his crashing into the wall was that he never learned. He'd never run fast to the wall, stop and then jump vertical. He would slowly run back towards the wall, then at the last minute dive into the wall, so the ball would hit is glove at the exact moment his body crashed into the wall- ball dropped.
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This is certainly not fun to watch. It looks like a full meltdown. When is the last time we had a come from behind win? (It was our strength not long ago, but of course, it's not a "repeatable skill," so there's that.) I still think this team is much better than we have sown in the last 2-3 weeks. (9-15 over the last 24 games/ 15-21 in the last 36) We are just 33-30 since our Yankee sweep back in early June. Just getting back to that winning % may be too much to ask, at this point, easy schedule and all. I still have high hopes, though. Maybe one come from behind win is the spark we need.
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LOL. I will say that Leon was far from my favorite player, as was Wake, someone I defended way more than I wanted to or should have had to do. I actually like Vaz. One guy I never liked: Mike Greenwell.
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Agreed, and since all stats are flawed, even the value they assign are not fully representative of the very things they are trying to capture.
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How about Downs hitting 2 HRs while Munoz goes hitless after 35 games? Wong also HR'd.
