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  1. notin
    Not as long as Rafaela is healthy. But if that situation changes, he does very likely move there…
  2. notin
    Do a lowercase “r”. No need to shout it. Unless you’re Eric Burdon…
  3. notin
    It was essentially outs vs bases…
  4. notin
    Well, it’s kind of a huge part of slugging percentage, which is half of OPS. The other star you’re thinking of combing all of that (and more) didn exist. It was called Total Average, created by Washington sportswriter Thomas Boswell in 1978. It never caught on because Boswell created his stat before the invention of Microsoft Excel (or even before forerunner Lotus 1-2-3) and it was very difficult t calculate by hand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_average Maybe Boswell was just ahead of his time…
  5. notin
    Doesn’t matter. Even thinking about bacon can cause weight gain. I gained a pound just mentioning it in 2 posts…
  6. notin
    Getting hurt doesn’t count. By that logic, no one is guaranteed a roster spot if they’re hurt. The 2b pool got even more shallow with Romy now missing time. If not Mayer, they have plenty of options, but none of them are particularly intimidating, unless the Sox see a resurgent Kristian Campbell and forget he is now an outfielder. Or unless early camp talk about Mikey Romero is more prophetic this year than it is over every season’s past Spring Training rookie pipe dream. Even if Mayer “forgets how to hit,” most of his competition (Sogard, Chung, Kiner-Falefa, Monasterio) never really knew in the first place…
  7. notin
    What if his body wants to gorge itself on bacon triple cheeseburgers and milkshakes?
  8. notin
    Who is he going to lose it to? Sogard? Monasterio? Romero? I think Mayer is a lock if healthy…
  9. notin
    Only injury keeps him off…
  10. notin
    McAdam stated the Sox have no plans to put Tolle or Early in the bullpen…
  11. notin
    Sits for who?
  12. notin
    Either way it leaves one bullpen spot open for the rather unexciting Zack Kelly…
  13. notin
    I see two, with one bullpen slot likely slated for Zack Kelly and one bench slot going to ? I am assuming everyone is healthy, Sandoval starts , and Crawford goes to the bullpen, and Oviedo chose to Worcester until needed…
  14. notin
    Most likely. But with Romy out, IKF can handle any needed 2b platooning. But what about keeping Mickey Gasper (career MiLB .814 vs LHP, .490 vs MLB LHP but only in 40 PAs) to platoon with Duran at DH in Cincinnati where they should face LHPs Nick Lodolo and Andrew Abbott in games 2 and 3? Or keeping Gasper allows Wong to DH those games with no risk of losing the DH…
  15. notin
    The Sox open with Cincinnati, where they should face lefties Lodolo and Abbott. But Houston and SD, the next two opponents, will only have RHP in the rotation. So against Lodolo and Abbott, do they keep Duran in the third spot? Drop him down? Or use a RHH DH? And who is that? Eaton? Wong? I think they’re better off with Duran at DH than Eaton. I could see Wong, but that’s a little risky. (Although with Contreras, IKF, and possibly Siegler, they are not short in emergency catchers.). Romy doesn’t solve this as he is likely to platoon with a Mayer anyway….
  16. notin
    But he signed a deal in time to miss the entire contract with an injury…
  17. notin
    Is Giolito asking for the world plus the next one or something? There’s no reason for him to be still unsigned…
  18. notin
    I thought more like a gap power guy. And he came right out of the gate with a .874 OPS that first year…
  19. notin
    I was one of the original “How exactly does that work?” guys. Any team acquiring Duran is trying to win; teams trying to win don’t trade #2 starters…
  20. notin
    It’s been status quo, but they did win 94 games last year…
  21. notin
    Actually WAPM proved more accurate than time travel for short term predictions, all within one season. But wasn’t so good at spanning the years. If it was, I’d have published those tactics or sold my services around MLB by now…
  22. notin
    I think the Jays are more likely to miss the playoffs than the Yankees, but for some reason both Fangraphs and Baseball Digest predict the Yankees don’t get in. My first thought was “maybe Baseball Digest’s primary source was Fangraphs. But no way. Fangraphs tries to be cutting edge statistical analysis, and Baseball Digest is probably the most Old School of all mainstream baseball sources. They only recently embraced OPS. So that these two sources both independently came to that same conclusion both baffles and excites me…
  23. notin
    Or maybe their being geniuses - thinking if we hide the game from people, then they’ll work even harder to seek it out and see why. Next season the plan is to move all these games and the postseason from Peacock straight to an undetermined location on the Dark Web…
  24. notin
    So maybe he only becomes the Mayoral Assistant of Ding Ding City…
  25. notin
    … and MLB doesn’t want anyone to watch games, as they are moving the Sunday national broadcast from ESPN and the postseason from FOX both over to Peacock. ESPN also did some midweek games that will also be heading to Peacock. I assume Apple gets more games this year as well…
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