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Everything posted by notin
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So should the Sox have retained Jon Lester and foregone the acquisition of Rick Porcello, who was a big part of the 2016-18 run?
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I never said anything about whether or not the evaluators were including Whitlock. I just said he was never part of the Red Sox farm. And to date, he hasn’t been…
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I was exciting that as you typed, but the idea is Arauz and Whitlock were never part of the Sox state that scouts were ranking and evaluating…
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MLB Properties appears to be run similar to many other private corporate giants. For example, Cargill has a board of directors largely comprised of the Cargill and MacMillan families, who appoint a CEO (in this case, David MacLennon) to run the company. The MLB owners largely act like the BOD family members, and Manfred is the MLB doppelgänger for MacLennon…
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Yes, if you keep trading your MLB starters to bulk it up. Maybe there’s a reason Baltimore, Detroit and Miami are among the league’s best farm on just about every ranking…
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Nor was Whitlock ever in the Sox farm system. (Ditto Arauz prio to his MLB debut.)
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Also because Vern Stephens played shortstop for Boston more often than Pesky…
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Exactly, and just like in MLB, Dairy Queen franchise owners can’t sell the company property for private gain i.e. owning a DQ franchise doesn’t give someone the legal right to make Dairy Queen tee shirts and sell them on Etsy. (Dairy Queen probably wouldn’t waste their time pursuing legal action in this case, but they would certainly be able to.)
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I don’t think it’s the anti trust exemption that denies the owners the ability to market their brands. It’s because the teams and their logos are property of MLB, not Henry, Steinbrenner and company
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I was just trying to de-Italian him (and with a French spin for Mr. Monbouquette). Now you’ve gone and put him in the mafia!!
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It’s also not true to call the owners “individual business owners.” MLB is a singular business, not a group of businesses. The “owners” are really just majority shareholders in different divisions of the same company. They don’t really own anything, and are not free to license their brand individually…
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Agreed. We don’t call it collusion when the players get together to set their demands…
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No. No one did. Not even Tony Conigliere…
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They either guess or do something really boring like 3 year averages…
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You turned Bill Monbouquette into an Italian!!
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Or that Manny was that low..
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I’m ok with that assessment. But if you were ranking the best players in MLB, would Ortiz be only two places behind Yaz?
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Before 1969, the mound was higher…
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Does Rico Petrocelli and his 31.9 fWAR by age 28 factor into this?
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Ok but I was putting clutch hits into context. Ortiz certainly had his, but Yaz did, too. If Ortiz’ walk off hits are a big factor, so should be Yaz going 16 for 28 with 5 HRs in the last week of 1967 to push the Sox to the AL pennant. Ortiz was a great player, but Yaz was a better one…
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That is a tough call, admittedly. But that ALCS in 2013 was one where the Sox desperately needed to turn things around. They hit shut out in game one at home and scored 1 run in 16 innings, andwere just a few outs away from going 0-2 at Fenway. At least the 2004 team wasn’t dead offensively in the ALCS. But the game 4 one in 2004 was huge, especially followed by the walkoff single some 20 hours later…
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The WAPM never projected PAs. All I did was assume 600 PAs. Or 450PAs for RHH and 150 for LHH if there was a platoon…
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No. There’s math behind any projection system that helps the projector determine performance. But how often anyone plays? That’s just guessing. Just because it isn’t always accurate doesn’t make it guessing…
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Papi’s best walkoffs we’re in games 4 and 5 of the 2004 ALCS. But his biggest home run was in game 2 of the 2013 ALCS…
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Projecting PAs is just guesswork. I like how Steamer600 handles things. “Give a player 600 PAs and this is how he should do.”
