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Everything posted by notin
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Really? Their top OPS guy was third in BA. Not top two. Also Washington
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Now do San Francisco!! And Atlanta! Or Oakland!!
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Probably more often than you find .000 BA on any player with significant playing time. If you’re going to use examples that only exist in small sample sizes, don’t discount counter examples that do as well…
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Batting average tells you how often a player gets a hit in plate appearances when he doesn’t walk, get hit, voluntarily give himself up, or happen to hit a deep flyball with a runner on third and less than two out. Unless that runner isn’t very fast, in which case the hitter gets penalized. Also all hits, be it a slow roller down the third bad line that the defense hopes goes foul, or 460-foot blasts that clear the entire ballpark, count the same. OBP measures how often you get to 1b by offensive means. It does treat walks like home runs SLG is BA but credits doubles, triples and home runs. OPS credits the batter for reaching base, treats hits based on TB, and either mitigates or eliminates the flaws in BA. Of the 4, BA just tells you the least about a hitter…
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No it doesn’t. A flyball hitter can put the ball in play more frequently than a groundball hitter or a line drive hitter, but he is very likely to wind up with fewer hits…
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Ok. If a player draws 3 walks and hits 2 sac flies but goes 0 for 5, is there value in that?
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It’s a good thing, but you went beyond BA to get there. Joey Meneses is batting .307. Ryan Noda is batting .249. Who is having the better season? (I avoided using Juan Soto here on purpose.)
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You made the sweeping generalization. I can apply realistic numbers if you like…
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Because I’m comparing the current rotation to last year’s rotation. Not theoretically possible rotations that could have happened this year to last year’s rotation…
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So there’s no value in a player who goes 0 for 1 with 9 walks in 10 PA?
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I’ve already mentioned it survives on its popularity. It’s not going anywhere, but what does it tell you?
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And yet you only cite BA…
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No it wasn’t. The point was “batting average is the least informative offensive stat.” Let’s start simple - what does batting average tell you about a hitter?
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Red Sox trade Hunter Renfroe in trade involving Jackie Bradley Jr
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It was also a big story when Judge set the AL home run record. Not sure what your point is. If you want to know something about a hitter, which stat tells you the least? BA? OBP? SLG? OPS?
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Right. And it was created because BA wasn’t very telling…
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The performances of Wacha and Eovaldi this year are irrelevant in questioning whether or not the current rotation is an upgrade over last year…
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The rotation I named from last year was worth 5.8 fWAR. The current 5 have 2.5 fWAR. Catching last year is certainly doable…
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We didn’t? Last year the Sox most frequently used SP were Pivetta, Hill, Wacha, Eovaldi and Winckowski Right now the rotation is Paxton, Whitlock, Houck, Bello and Crawford. Is it upgraded over last year?
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Because most mock drafts had him gone by then, likely including their own? The mock drafts all went awry when Davis went at #1
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No one needs them all. But each one is more informative. BA has the advantage of being familiar to even the most casual baseball fan, and so it will never go away. But popularity doesn’t equate to informative…
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They may have been focusing on Leiter because they assumed Mayer would be taken…
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The game threads also strongly suggest the Sox are 0-66…
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The Sox could roll the dice and deal Verdugo. But I suspect one of Duran or Rafaela is more likely. Although probably not to Miami…
