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Post by bookiemetts on Aug 1, 2016 23:04:30 GMT -5
If he doesn't hit he will at least give better defense than Holt/Brentz Does this mean Swihart is going to be out quite a bit longer?
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Post by bookiemetts on Aug 1, 2016 23:01:44 GMT -5
Dang that's a shame. Real nice outing by Eddie against a decent offense with no run support
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 31, 2016 18:09:06 GMT -5
Wow!!! On a different note, I didn't realize but Mookie is basically Mike Trout - 30 walks: Mookie | .305/.347/.534 | 21 HR | 17 SB | Trout | .313/.425/.543 | 19 HR | 17 SB |
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 29, 2016 23:54:48 GMT -5
That's 18 GIDPs for Pedey this year - second most in the AL (19 for Escobar). Brutal Yeah it's really bad. I looked at this earlier and it seems like everyone on the at the top of the list is a good hitter. Then I took like a 30 minute dive into the stats cause I'm weird. I don't want to say much about the results cause I'm afraid of using the wrong words (correlation...etc.) but here are some interesting plots. But it seems like there's a decrease in GDP% with K%, which makes sense, but GB% doesn't seem to matter which is curious. Anyone want to guess who has the highest GDP/PA in these plots? Extra bonus points if you guess the guy circled in red lol. These are for all qualified players since 2010.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 28, 2016 23:50:16 GMT -5
Trout is scary
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 27, 2016 21:39:43 GMT -5
Another outfield assist for Benintendi If he plays the wall well he could gun down some guys stretching for doubles at Fenway
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 26, 2016 23:12:34 GMT -5
Benintendi also made a catch and threw someone out at 1st for a double play from LF. Anyone know if it was a nice play or dumb baserunning?
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 23, 2016 22:28:13 GMT -5
Yikes. Well these are the kinds of games where I normally stay away from the GDTs and I won't read all of these comments, so sorry if this has already been said.
It doesn't matter whether you think this loss was Farrell's fault or not, these past 2 games are the ones that get managers fired. Tough losses against a bad opponent when expectations are high with some questionable game management. If I'm Farrell I might not sleep tonight.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 23, 2016 14:54:02 GMT -5
Using 2016-2017 as baseline, this Rotation (Price, Wright, Porcello, Pomeranz, Rodriguez) is rounding into one of the best. An OF of Benny, JBJ, Mookie may quickly become THE best. Pens are so volatile but Kimbrel, Smith, Taz, Zeigler or similar, Barnes, Kelly, Hembree, Ross, Light promises KC-style success. Some catching combination of CV, BS, Leon, Hanigan is well above average. Some combination of Pedey, XB, Shaw, Hanley, Holt, Travis, Moncada, Hernandez, Papi, Encarnacion is well above average.
IMO DDO has finished the heavy lifting to fix this team while trading all the top prospects we need to trade (Kimbrel, Smith, Poem). All that is needed now are minor improvements, as he has already done with Hill, Zeigler, Young, Martinez, I agree with basically everything you said except the bold part. The catching situation going forward is probably the shakiest part of the team. I'm not sure I trust Leon or Vazquez offensively, nor do I really trust Swihart defensively especially considering his LF experiment. I wouldn't be totally surprised if DDo went after Lucroy, although I think he's a FA in 2017. That being said, this team should be good for the next few years without requiring significant changes, besides maybe a Papi replacement in EE.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 22, 2016 18:40:07 GMT -5
Yeah I think if you limited the pickoff throws the pitchers would just hold the ball forever and it might not help. I personally am a fan of the pitch clock. That seems to be a fairly simple thing.
I also saw another idea somewhere to help with the balls/strikes calls for home plate umps. It might take a little bit of work but I think they have the technology to make some sort of "virtual reality" strike zone which could be displayed on the ump's mask for example. This way the umpires can call more accurately and not feel as if they are being replaced by robots, while still allowing for some decision-making authority.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 22, 2016 16:20:46 GMT -5
Without looking at what other people answered, I came up with the same one: JBJ, Mookie, Xander. Based on PECOTA pre-season projections of TAv, Sox players are at the following percentiles: 99+% Bradley (that's what happens when you count 2014 and shouldn't have) 99% Ortiz 83% Bogaerts71% Holt 64% Shaw 50% Betts50% Pedroia 49% Ramirez Wow Betts is only at 50%? That's amazing.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 22, 2016 11:05:55 GMT -5
If we went back in time a few years and posted these 3 lines for JBJ/Xander/Mookie to this point in the season:
.297/.376/.548 15 hr .324/.380/.470 11 hr .306/.345/.527 19 hr
1) How many people would believe it? 2) If people had to guess which line belongs to who, what would be the consensus guess?
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 21, 2016 10:12:38 GMT -5
Wow those Minnesota starters are just terrible. How is Jose Berrios still in the minors?
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 19, 2016 21:05:04 GMT -5
I missed it. What happened at the end here? Koji came in for the top of the 9th and got one out. The next batter he threw a pitch and kind of stretched his arm back (like he was scratching his back). Then he shook off pitches and threw a slider for the next pitch and grabbed at his shoulder/upper bicep/peck area and called for help from the dugout.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 18, 2016 23:55:22 GMT -5
Man, I was looking at the Yankees rotation and it's truly a no man's land. Tanaka is fantastic, but after him? Pineda is fat, Sabathia is fat and old, Eovaldi and Nova are frankly relievers, Severino is so bad he managed to get demoted and then continued to suck, and to top it off they gave 3 starts to something called Chad Green this year. Wow. And their lineup is pretty pathetic and somehow they're sitting at .500 with a -36 run differential. That probably has to do with their good bullpen and manager. I wonder how long before they pull the plug...
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 12, 2016 22:38:59 GMT -5
Pardon my ignorance, but why is the American League team the home team if the game is at Petco Park? I guess the All-Star game is going to be in NL ballparks (Miami and Washington) the next couple years and they don't want to give the NL home field advantage 4 years in a row if it's actually going to mean something in the playoffs Looks like I was a few seconds too slow lol
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 11, 2016 9:27:15 GMT -5
Even world-class sprinters have only reached about 95% of peak velocity at 27 meters (30 yards/90 feet). 21.2 mph is 9.5 meters/second. World-class at 27 meters is 11 m/s. While that difference may seem like a good amount, those guys reach max velocity *very* quickly. Moncada's top speed is probably an 11 second 100m, which is pretty quick. This is all very helpful, but isn't it also relevant that world class sprinters these days do not run on dirt wearing long pants and a helmet? It's probably more relevant that sprinters start from blocks which feels like it gives an advantage in the first few steps of the race and acceleration. But maybe telson was giving numbers without the blocks, or maybe they don't actually help much I'm not sure.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jul 8, 2016 21:33:54 GMT -5
Wow Longoria is just frightening. There are so man scary hitters in the AL East. I get a little worried every time Longoria, Machado, Davis, Donaldson, Bautista and Encarnacion step in. Luckily, there aren't any Yankees on that list
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 28, 2016 20:13:09 GMT -5
It was worth the shot haha
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 27, 2016 20:12:26 GMT -5
I haven't been able to watch this one (maybe for the best), and I've said this before but it's very frustrating that with this offense the pitching literally just needs to not suck. Going down 5-0 in the first inning is just demoralizing for any team.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 23, 2016 13:24:09 GMT -5
Anyone else think Jackie has looked better in the field recently?
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 21, 2016 16:01:19 GMT -5
"I'm going to get a tattoo over my whole body of me, but holding the Cy young award" - Steven Wright Is this a real Stephen Wright joke? (obviously not the CY Young part) Because if you made this up, you absolutely nailed it. Yeah the real joke is that he's going to get a tattoo of himself over his whole body but taller lol
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 20, 2016 20:49:30 GMT -5
"I'm going to get a tattoo over my whole body of me, but holding the Cy young award" - Steven Wright
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 19, 2016 13:53:32 GMT -5
So now that Vazquez maybe isn't the pitch framing prodigy we might have thought, can we keep on towards the push for robo umps? The calls this entire season, not just there, have been pretty consistently inconsistent. I think this will eventually happen, but it will require a huge controversy to cause the switch. Think like, bottom of the ninth, game 7 in the WS and the ump blows a call and the wrong team wins kind of controversy. It's kind of absurd cause the technology is already there. I just wish baseball replays and reviews could be like tennis somehow. I know the replays are much easier to do in tennis, but they have the best replay/review system in pro sports.
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 17, 2016 20:00:01 GMT -5
So as a disclaimer this is basically a joke, but: can Hembree start?
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