Random Baseball Musings

[Guest]

Like, imagine the 08 Cubs if we could've had a DH in that lineup.

 

Actually, just sticking Edmonds at DH and actually letting Pie play would've been sort of interesting.

[jersey cubs fan]

Like, imagine the 08 Cubs if we could've had a DH in that lineup.

 

Cubs pitchers out OPS the next best team by 88 points and were 47.7% better than the rest of the NL pitchers. The DH probably would not have helped the 2008 Cubs at all.

[Guest]

Like, imagine the 08 Cubs if we could've had a DH in that lineup.

 

Cubs pitchers out OPS the next best team by 88 points and were 47.7% better than the rest of the NL pitchers. The DH probably would not have helped the 2008 Cubs at all.

 

what i mean is we might have actually had the best OPS in baseball instead of the second best despite being an NL team

 

 

because awesome

Edited October 29, 2013 by David

[jersey cubs fan]

Like, imagine the 08 Cubs if we could've had a DH in that lineup.

 

Cubs pitchers out OPS the next best team by 88 points and were 47.7% better than the rest of the NL pitchers. The DH probably would not have helped the 2008 Cubs at all.

 

what i mean is we might have actually might have had the best OPS in baseball instead of the second best despite being an NL team

 

 

because awesome

 

I take much greater pleasure in the team's record being good than statistical rankings, and given the Cubs huge advantage over NL teams in OPS from the pitcher's spot I do not think a DH would have helped them achieve a better record.

 

So, not awesome.

[Guest]

wait, i can't remember now..we might've actually had the best OPS and been 2nd in runs scored.

 

either way, that team = awesome

[jersey cubs fan]

1 Texas .816

2 Boston .805

3 CHCubs .797

4 Detroit .784

5 St. Louis .783

[Guest]

1 Texas .816

2 Boston .805

3 CHCubs .797

4 Detroit .784

5 St. Louis .783

 

Almost .800 as a team. Good God.

[Sammy Sofa]

seriously how much more fun would it be to watch baseball with a guy whose only value is his bat in the game instead of watching what it's like for a person off the street to face major league pitching

 

Pitchers currently take 5% of NL plate appearances, and basically zero in high leverage/late inning situations, so, not much?

 

5% is plenty...and the DH would still be taking more than that assuming he's not the worst hitter in the lineup.

 

Plus it's not simply a matter of the pitcher not hitting; it's also taking way PA's from the humps that take up space on the bench.

[bcl412]

I vote for pitcher batting for the other team and for allowing the Cubs to have a DH.

[imb]

add the dh but they have to do 10 spins around the bat before every pitch

[imb]

*hits laser ball*

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/BaseballSimulatorNESBoxart.jpg

[Clem Fandango]

add the dh but they have to do 10 spins around the bat before every pitch

 

That's some Rock n' Jock [expletive] right there.

[Banedon]

@CarrieMuskat:

 

Brandon Phillips wins Gold Glove over #Cubs Darwin Barney

[Guest]

@CarrieMuskat:

 

Brandon Phillips wins Gold Glove over #Cubs Darwin Barney

 

More disappointed in Goldschmidt winning it over Rizzo tbh

[jersey cubs fan]

@CarrieMuskat:

 

Brandon Phillips wins Gold Glove over #Cubs Darwin Barney

 

More disappointed in Goldschmidt winning it over Rizzo tbh

 

Gold Gloves don't affect who wins games, so I'm Jay Cutler on this.

[bukie]

@CarrieMuskat:

 

Brandon Phillips wins Gold Glove over #Cubs Darwin Barney

 

More disappointed in Goldschmidt winning it over Rizzo tbh

Goldschmidt actually deserved it, so I can't be too disappointed about that.

[Guest]

@CarrieMuskat:

 

Brandon Phillips wins Gold Glove over #Cubs Darwin Barney

 

More disappointed in Goldschmidt winning it over Rizzo tbh

Goldschmidt actually deserved it, so I can't be too disappointed about that.

 

How did he deserve it any more than Phillips (both of whom didn't)?

 

http://i.imgur.com/9PxuZYE.png

http://i.imgur.com/TDvJIgz.png

[bukie]

http://www.fieldingbible.com/the-winners.asp

[Guest]

http://www.fieldingbible.com/the-winners.asp

 

Even that says Rizzo was better.

[Guest]

Crap, just realized that I sorted those incorrectly. Oh well, still has the info.

[SouthSideRyan]

Interesting piece written by Adrian Cardenas for the New Yorker on why he retired.

[Clem Fandango]

Interesting piece written by Adrian Cardenas for the New Yorker on why he retired.

 

That was, indeed, an interesting read. But...

 

I didn’t even know that the Dodgers had originally played in Brooklyn

 

How can you grow up with a love of the game, surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport, and not know this?

[Guest]

Interesting piece written by Adrian Cardenas for the New Yorker on why he retired.

 

That was, indeed, an interesting read. But...

 

I didn’t even know that the Dodgers had originally played in Brooklyn

 

How can you grow up with a love of the game, surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport, and not know this?

 

That is kind of crazy.

 

Sort of reminds me of when Ryan Tannehill said he didn't know "all the conferences and divisions and stuff" in the NFL on Hard Knocks in the film room.

[jersey cubs fan]

Interesting piece written by Adrian Cardenas for the New Yorker on why he retired.

 

That was, indeed, an interesting read. But...

 

I didn’t even know that the Dodgers had originally played in Brooklyn

 

How can you grow up with a love of the game, surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport, and not know this?

 

I think it makes a lot of sense that somebody would love playing a sport but not know where one team played during the Eisenhower Administration. He wasn't "surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport", considering he said his parents knew nothing about baseball.

[Gmoney08]

Interesting piece written by Adrian Cardenas for the New Yorker on why he retired.

 

That was, indeed, an interesting read. But...

 

I didn’t even know that the Dodgers had originally played in Brooklyn

 

How can you grow up with a love of the game, surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport, and not know this?

 

I think it makes a lot of sense that somebody would love playing a sport but not know where one team played during the Eisenhower Administration. He wasn't "surrounded by nothing but people who live the sport", considering he said his parents knew nothing about baseball.

 

He knew who Wally Pipp was though?