moonslav59

I've been done "waiting" on Thornburg for quite a while. He's never going to "come around," IMO.

Agreed, but they have not caught on, so not many would understand, if we used them.

If they created a new metric whereby they counted OBP as 60% of "OPS" and SLG% as 40% of "OPS", it would be more accurate, but hard for many to understand, so we don't do it. 3 x OBP + 2 x SLG = Adjusted OPS 5

On defense, all flash and little substance. On offense, he was a god.

What I listed were not my opinions. They were what I expect might happen based on what I know at this point in the season. Pedey will be called up, if he gets healthy enough. I'd probably rather have Nunez or Pearce on the 25 man roster than Pedey, especially if it means we have to DFA one of them to make room for the "fragile" Pedey. I'd rather keep Holt over Pedey, too, but we are not going to DFA Pedey or keep him down against his will.

Whenever we try to compare players without using "metrics" there are a ton of "moving parts" anyways. Yes, TGeddy hit more HRs than Runnels. We include fielding, base running, OBP, and other stats that may be easier to understand, but hard to weigh in order of importance. We have to more or less wing it by looking at numerous stats to decide who we think is a bigger plus overall. WAR tries to do all that and put it all into one number. Of course, it's flawed, but so are we, when we try to juggle all the stats to compare players. The people who created WAR used a lot of science and data to determine how much each aspect of the game contributes to runs created (offense) or saved (defense). Personally, I don't need to have to understand every algorithm and computation to trust that they probably do a better job than I do at pulling everything together into one determination. To me, the defensive input is probably the hardest for casual fans to factor into overall value. If you don't use defensive metrics, what do you use? Eye test on players you barely see play? Fielding percentage? Then, how much more valuable is it to be the best fielding SS in MLB vs the best fielding 1Bman? What weight do we assign to positional value? WAR is not perfect. OPS is not perfect, but no singular stat or metric tells the whole story. WAR probably comes the closest. To me, OPS does a pretty good job at showing all around batting value- it's better than BA alone, OBP alone or SLG% alone.

I'm not implying Johnson is any kind of "answer" to our issues, but he'll probably be better than Brewer, Thornburg and Weber. My guess is we trade for some pitching at the deadline, and one or two of these guys end up off the 25 man roster - one way or another.

True.

They even lost their minor league hockey team.

Roster moves to ponder.... Leon returns: O Hernandez goes down. Price returns: Josh A Smith goes down DFA Thornburg: Call up Pedey or Holt Eovaldi returns: DFA Brewer The toughest call is when the last one healthy out of Pedey & Holt are healthy. We'll need to choose from these options (assuming everyone is healthy): 1) Create a phantom IL stint to prolong the choice (Pearce, Nunez, JBJ). 2) Trade or DFA Nunez or Pearce. When Johnson is healthy, we may have to demote Weber or ______?

Lakins or Poyner can't be any worse, either.

So, solo HR, right?

...or James.

Yes, last 48 hours. Let's DFA everybody.

Too many guts are tuned into just the previous 24 to 48 hours.

I said the same thing over a week ago. He's never going to regain what he had long ago. Cut the ties today.

Before tonight: OPS .765 RISP .846 RISP w 2 outs .865 Late & Close .769 Bases loaded .982

We are beating ourselves. It's not some great Astro performance.

...and SLG% > BA OPS> OBP> SLG> BA

I'd rather have a guy who gets 2 hits and 2 walks every 10 PAs (.250 BA) than someone who gets 3 hits and no walks every 10 PAs (.300 BA), unless he hits for much more power, but then again, BA does not "capture" HRs and XBHs either.

Do you really expect Vaz to continue hitting .880+? Do you really want to play JD in the OF more? Do you really want to add a catcher, when we already are facing a roster crunch when Holt and Pedey return? (I'm fine with DFA'ing Nunez, if Pedey proves his health, but to keep Holt, Pedey and Chavis around, we'd have to DFA or trade Pearce to make room for a 3rd catcher.) I seriously doubt we dump Pearce and bench JBJ, so Vaz can DH more. If we want to DH Vaz, we can do it without a 3rd catcher. The only risk is losing the DH, if Leon gets hurt or PH for.

OPS is flawed, but to me, OPS tells me way more than BA. The biggest flaw of OPS is that OBP should be weighted more highly than SLG. Although SLG% is flawed as well, it does help distinguish between a .300 hitter with 15 XBHs and a .300 hitter with 65 XBHs. One is clearly much better than the other, and BA, flawed as well, doesn't tell you about. BA also counts walks as zero. That's a major flaw. Since OPS actually counts BA twice, I'd think you like it.

My pleasure. It's no secret that CF, 2B and 1B are our low points at this snapshot of the season. RF & DH seem lower than I expected, but it's nice to see 3B in the top 5 and not the bottom 5. Our pitching staff is blowing the competition away the last 30 days. Our defense looks worse than last year, despite Devers looking improved.

No Sale in those three days, right? We shouldn't miss Sandy that much. I'm looking for JBJ to wake up the echoes this series.

Nor should it knock him out of the line-up by even 1 day other than his normal days of rest, at least until he is slumping. There's room for Pedey and Chavis to play as much as they deserve.