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Everything posted by notin
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Considering the largest payrolls are 150-200% larger than the smallest, but the best team only wins about 20-25% more often than the worst team, I’d say trying to win by outspending is not as easy as people think...
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Well, you said “most would be outraged if he signed with the Yankees.” But to my post you said, and I quote. “********. It’s only ‘perspective’ since he signed with the Sox.” You used my word “perspective” and called ******** in response to my post. But somehow you’re saying that just because you responded to me and quoted me, your response was directed at others? Now I’m calling ********...
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Batting average treats a home run and an infield single the same, but plenty of people use it. ERA also gives the same credit for the runners the pitcher allows to score and the inherited runners that score on the following reliever. ERA is also more influenced by ballpark than WHIP. ERA has the advantage of being more popular and more recognizable, but for relievers it gets easily blown up by one bad inning. If an RP throws 60 IP per year, every earned run is worth 0.15 on his ERA. So one 4 ER inning can make a substantial difference, and your season long 2.40 is now 3.00. Also what about all those unearned runs? Why do they get completely ignored? If the team behind a reliever plays great defense, the pitcher benefits. But if they play poor defense, no impact at all? It just gets ignored? Like it never happened? Even if the reliever pitches like complete s*** after the error?
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I wasn’t. Plenty of others were. But I’m the one you called out...
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If there is, it’s probably not nearly as great as you think. We all saw the Red Sox come in last place 3 out of 4 years despite spending heavily. Every years, teams near the top in spending finish at the bottom in wins. In fact, if you look at the ranges of payroll and the advantage in winning spending more gives, many would come to te conclusion it just isn’t worth it...
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That’s really on the Hall, who made the decision not to induct banished players. A decision they made after Mays and Mantle were both briefly and unjustly banished by an extremely judgmental Bowie Kuhn...
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And that has nothing to do deciding what stat is the best one to evaluate a relief pitcher, unless you like hypothetical one inning sample sizes...
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Says the man making David Ortiz milkshake cracks and somehow ignoring equal time jokes about, oh I don’t know, let’s say Andy Pettitte. You probably don’t remember specifically, but even back on BDC, my stance has always been more lenient on substance abusers...
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The Red Sox used 18 different relief pitchers last year. Sure they had a comfort level with some, but let’s not pretend it was equal for all of them...
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So? His post is already in the past. One year ago on this date, the biggest addition the Sox had made to their team was to bring back Mitch Moreland...
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Giving up a run and not giving up a run isn’t always the responsibility of the pitcher alone...
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Still January...
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Right. And now he’s saying there will be no more surgeries in the bullpen. So go find an operating room!!
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You can’t just answer?
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Logan Morrison used to be really good, too.
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Hint: Take “Starters” next time. Bigger Hint: His name rhymes with Cyst Kale Really Big Hint: It’s Chris Freakin’ Sale!!! Now guess again...
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Gamblers like Rose threatened the very integrity of the game. (I think Rose does belong in Cooperstown, just nowhere else near a dugout.) The PED users actually might think they’re using legal supplements. The gamblers know the rule; it’s been posted in every clubhouse for over a century...
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Obviously the WHIP of 2.00. But which pitcher would you use the next day?
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Also ERA+ and ERA- are better than ERA. A 2.50 ERA in Coors isn’t the same as a 2.50 ERA in Petco. But a 115 ERA+ is the same everywhere...
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I actually don’t like ERA for relievers, especially closers. If they come in with men on base and those men score, the relievers ERA for that game might still be 0.00. That’s not really representative of the poor job he did. Of course, fWAR isn’t great, either, since nearly all relievers have 2.0 or below with the majority being below 1.0. So I tend to just like WHIP and K/BB...
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Right. Let’s go back to complaining about the bullpen. Did you hear DD says he’s done now?
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Maybe that’s because catchers are too fat!!
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He’s playing baseball, not performing surgery on babies. Let’s have some perspective here...
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I don’t follow Moylan on Twitter, but some of his tweets I have seen in the past do make me think he’s kind of a tool. Maybe I just catch him on bad days...
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Velasquez shouldn’t make the team if every is healthy; he should go to Pawtucket as a sixth starter option.
