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  1. devildavid
    Don't worry about me, I'm old school. Meh has never entered into my vocabulary.
  2. devildavid
    Barnes is my man. I've always liked him, especially when he gets ripped by some fans.
  3. devildavid
    Pretty boy James Dean would give McQueen a good run for his money in a car race.
  4. devildavid
    Good post. Baseball is the only sport that is really perfect for an All-Star game. If there have been any flaws, it is more how the voting has been conducted than the game itself.
  5. devildavid
    Cora said in an interview that his team "sucks" at sliding and they would need to work on it.
  6. devildavid
    SLG is very flawed. It assigns over simplified values to hits. BA is a fine indicator of hitting safely and that's all I want from it. Its simplicity makes it reliable. SLG is wrong in assigning its values to hits. ISO is a much better measure of power.
  7. devildavid
    So it doesn't really help me in evaluating the specific skills of a player, which is all I am concerned with. I don't care about their worth, whatever that means.
  8. devildavid
    OPS sucks. I try very hard to ignore it. It is now fashionable to use it but it is a lousy measure. I don't look at BA to correlate with runs scored, I look at it to evaluate one specific aspect of hitting ability. OPS is a statistical nightmare. SLG sucks too and contributes heavily to the suckiness of OPS.
  9. devildavid
    We can't really use any numbers to rank players across different time eras. We also can't use it across leagues because the NL doesn't have the DH.
  10. devildavid
    We may disagree on lots of things but I am totally on board with your appropriate view on the value of great defense. And JBJ is a great defender. If he were not great, perhaps the best in MLB, I would be less willing to accept his offensive deficiencies.
  11. devildavid
    OPS is not an improvement on anything. It uses SLG which is a very flawed old school stat. The improvement was to start calculating and looking at OBP. But even OBP does not account for all the times a batter reaches safely, but at least it comes very close. And the much maligned BA actually does a good job of measuring how well a hitter puts a ball in play with the bat to successfully reach base.
  12. devildavid
    I find the attempt at a single number misguided. It tells me absolutely nothing about the abilities of that player. Give me all the numbers and let me figure it out myself. And dump OPS too. It is overused and measures nothing.
  13. devildavid
    Pedro is helping individual players without concern for who they play for. It fits who Pedro is. He played the game for himself and to prove himself to others.
  14. devildavid
    Too many variables. My main issue is that it is attempting to calculate how much a single player contributes to a win in a team sport. And it bases this on a made up number that represents a theoretical replacement level player.
  15. devildavid
    It depends on the terms of his contract.
  16. devildavid
    I am not a big fan of advanced fielding metrics, or any fielding metrics for that matter. OPS is a crappy stat because it adds together totally unrelated averages. The best stats are more stats, not less, and not attempts at all inclusive numbers. I will admit that I was old school until my eyes were opened to the importance of OBP. It is a single stat that is very useful in determining a hitters ability to avoid making outs, so its a good basic starting point in evaluating offensive contribution. The problem remains that it is very difficult to measure the value of fielding vs. the value of hitting. I always hark back to the great Orioles teams who had a strong defense up the middle with relatively weak hitters at those positions. Once the slugging shortstops arrived on the scene it changed everything. Add the steroid era and offense took center stage. But baseball is still about a 50/50 mix of offense and pitching/defense.
  17. devildavid
    You are right on as usual. What separates talented individuals is composure. So it isn't necessarily the most talented who rise to the top. It takes talent and composure which translates into confidence and consistency. Price has consistently been a top starter in MLB. He just may not be at the Tiant/Schilling/Pedro/Sale level that some may expect of him due to his huge contract. And even those I listed had their moments of failure. My main worry with Price is physical health, age, and the mileage he has already put on his arm. In the pitch count era, he has been a consistent workhorse.
  18. devildavid
    Let's hope it doesn't come down to free agency. Sox have to find a way keep him before that day comes.
  19. devildavid
    But as Moon points out, better to have a fresh ace. Sale's track record suggests he needs more rest to still be an ace come playoff time. Sale's historical performance records backs up this theory. In the playoffs we better hope that the bullpen is on top of their game, as their importance may surpass that of who is starting.
  20. devildavid
    I think his defense is so great that it more than makes up for his offensive deficiencies.
  21. devildavid
    I am sold on your position. Wild Card is the way to go.
  22. devildavid
    Beni ranks third on the team in OBP. He is a positive on offense, even when the hits aren't coming.
  23. devildavid
    We are in agreement here. As great as Mookie has been this season, it would be better if the Sox could extend him similar to Pedroia, but of course for much bigger dollars.Probably won't happen, as that train is speeding away from the station, if not already long gone. One way at another, Mookie is bound to cash in big.
  24. devildavid
    I get you are joking and that Betts has been ordained a superstar, but some reasonable caution may be warranted. Will a huge 10 year deal be needed to keep Mookie and if so, is it a no brainer no matter the price tag?
  25. devildavid
    I have been a big supporter of Pedroia but I am skeptical that he will ever return to form. I had the same skepticism when Hanley was signed. This is our biggest area of disagreement. But my reasoning is not that either player was not talented or did not try. Once a player gets an injury that severely impairs their performance, it is a long shot for them to ever be consistently productive again. I know there are exceptions to this (see Ortiz), but in general, physical decline leads to performance decline. It happened to another favorite of mine, Youk. I admire your loyalty and positive outlook, but I think you are underestimating the toll that injuries take as a player ages.
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