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Everything posted by notin
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The rules don’t make him a better player, but they might make him more useful. Really, todays Duran might be more valuable than yesterdays Duran. The question is - is he valuable enough yet?
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Trying to reset while being competitive will remain difficult for as long as Sale is on the roster and injured. A healthy Sale helps competitiveness with immense potential. But an injured Sale sucks up roughly 15% of the reset limit and contributes nothing else…
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I don’t think you save all of the top prospects, but you can certainly mitigate how many go. Certainly that’s what happens if Miami valets their players similar to BTV…
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So… among the rule changes for next year are the limiting of pickoff throws and larger bases (from 15 to 18 inches). To me, this means speed is back. Stolen bases. Good baserunning needed. Bloom has been hoarding speed prooescts. Hamilton, Ferguson, Rosier and Abreu are all base runners, among other things. He may have done so in anticipation of this rule change. (He didn’t hoard speed in Tampa.) Does all of this mean Duran is in the plans for 2023? Or does it at least make him better trade bait?
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That would certainly limit spending. Although I think the Sox could spend $110mill in AAV and still be under the limit. (Assuming Bogaerts opts out.)
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dgalehouse likes to run his little skits to tell us all he and only he knows how to enjoy baseball, and how stupid anyone is for doing it any other way. And in between those skits he likes to tell us how he never picks on anybody. So be on the lookout for that next…
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To be fair, his 128 OPS+ is brought down considerably by his age 20 to age 23 seasons. From age 24 on, his OPS+ was 135, which is higher than the previously unmentioned Rafael Palmeiro…
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Idaho Vandals. Best name in college sports…
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I heard the Android roboumps are suing over preferential treatment given to the iOS 16 umps…
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That little rectangle on the screen during games has nothing to do with automated balls and strikes. That’s just a reference…
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I want a big fan of the Kimbrel trade, loved the Sale trade, but the two moves I loathed the most were the Price signing and Sale extension. Well, the Panda contract deserves mention, but that was a guy were not talking about right now…
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For some who claims to be indifferent you certainly put them down alot…
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Yes. What was their opinion on Juan Soto? That the Sox could and should get him, he wouldn’t cost any prospects, and that the only reason abloom didn’t was sheer incompetence? Something like that is 100% devoid of facts. And is easily refuted by seeing what Soto eventually did go for. And these are your sources?
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Angel Hernandez has dropped so many racist allegations against MLB that they probably think firing him would result in a horribly public discrimination lawsuit…
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Maybe he did but since all the pitchers he’s brought into the organization are still in A ball, you’re not seeing immediate results. Or maybe he did and that’s why Crawford, Winckowski and Bello were better than expected…
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The good ol’ fashioned Goose Egg stat developed by Nate Silver, which was just a scoreless inning from the 7th or later in a game where the reliever’s team is tied it up by two runs or less. That is the best measure. It’s named for Advanced Stats Loudest and Most Prifane Critic Rich Gossage. Of course, Gossage is equally critical of the modern day use of closers, which he considers a pathetic joke, but with more swears. He’s also the all time MLB leader in Goose Eggs…
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Not to mention how every new-dangled metric eventually just becomes a boring stat. Who even looked at OBP thirty years ago? Now we look at it as something we need to get back to. Or do people think Abner Doubleday put the formula for calculating WHIP into the original rules, right after adding when a relief pitcher is eligible for a save vs a hold? It is funny that many who decry analytics also cling to the Save stat as if that didn’t derive from analytical data…
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A lot of folks in the sports media adopted the stance that complaining about everything makes them look smarter…
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It’s funny how you still think media is clearly based on facts. Apparently you’re the guy who still does…
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Ooh radio opinions!! Always so informative! Obviously the 4 players you named were great, but you can’t credit them for two decades of success when most of them have been gone for over 10 years. The radio guys like to criticize because they miss the point that while great players certainly are help, the gaps get filled with analytics. And sometimes those gaps get filled by a player who actually becomes great, like David Ortiz…
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Actually it’s because you repeatedly emphasize everything negative and attempt to bully anyone who says anything positive and because you denigrate “nerds” and blame analytics and refuse to acknowledge the role of analytics in the recent success of the last 2 decades. And even when asked if you would emphasize the negatives, you blatantly and overtly said yes and scoffed at anything even mildly positive. I stand by what I said. I don’t get why you’re afraid to admit it. Not like it’s a crime. Not even on a Sox board…
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It was ok. That his 103 IP is third on the team says more about the health of the rest of the staff than it does about Hill…
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The Rays trail by 4.5 games. On July 3, the Yankees lead Tampa by 15.5 games. If Tampa catches them, this will be the largest lead lost in a season, breaking the old record from 1914 when the New York Giants lost a 15 game lead to the Boston Braves…
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It’s so funny that you actually don’t think you do the same thing…
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On board. Although I’m willing to accept any of a range of Marlins’ pitchers…
