TruffleShuffle
-
Posts
50,942 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Joomla Posts 1
Chicago Cubs Videos
Chicago Cubs Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
2026 Chicago Cubs Top Prospects Ranking
News
2023 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
Guides & Resources
2024 Chicago Cubs Draft Picks
The Chicago Cubs Players Project
2025 Chicago Cubs Draft Pick Tracker
Blogs
Events
Forums
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by TruffleShuffle
-
i love the posts about rich's mental health... is he insane, depressed, schizo, what?
-
I agree with most of your points, but for the price Theriot has provided good value at SS. He adds an above-average OBP at SS, and actually RF has provided a top-10 OBP in the league. The most needed upgrades on the team are at CF and C, both of which have had little power and a complete inability to get on base. In the future I want a better SS for the Cubs, but for this year I am okay with Theriot. The bigger problems lie elsewhere.
-
no, i'm saying how often he gets a hit doesn't tell me much about how much someone contributes offensively. No but it tells quite a bit For instance if someone can get a hit 35% of the time then he is a good player even if he is a below average power hitter. so far this year, one player has gotten a hit 35% of the time. that's a very limited way to look at things. and seriously, if all of those hits are singles and he's a slow/bad base runner, he doesn't contribute much offensively. average is virtually worthless on it's own, much moreso than OBP or SLG. and he doesn't walk. A .350 hitter who never walks, never gets hits other than singles, and runs the bases poorly is not a particularly good baseball player. But this is completely unrealistic, because a guy is at least going to walk sometimes (no hitter who is clueless about the strike zone is going to hit .350) and at least lace some doubles and the occasional home run. VORP, from BP:
-
It's not, though. Hanley Ramirez and David Eckstein play the same position for their respective National League teams. They both had a .292 BA last year. Hanley had a 54.9 VORP, Eckstein was at 8.5. Batting averages the same, but one guy is massively better than the other.
-
contract the mets plz
-
I agree. I get tired of reading posts with these Moneyball stats being the only way to evaluate a player. Sure OPS is a useful stat, but I refuse to believe that any one stat can truly reflect someone's value. they're not the only way, but on a message board, they're usually the best. nah let's get back to the good ol' days of using batting average to determine a player's worth
-
solid offensive game for lastings
-
i'm surprised moises didn't try to take third there
-
not sure if he was safe there, but i'll take it
-
haha lots of confidence in manny parra, huh ned?
-
I agree. I get tired of reading posts with these Moneyball stats being the only way to evaluate a player. Sure OPS is a useful stat, but I refuse to believe that any one stat can truly reflect someone's value. ](*,) ](*,) ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)
-
he was on the Cubs tonight too (except he didn't hold onto the ball)
-
I agree. I get tired of reading posts with these Moneyball stats being the only way to evaluate a player. Sure OPS is a useful stat, but I refuse to believe that any one stat can truly reflect someone's value. okay but OBP will always be the best "basic" stat in my book. I could give you EqA or VORP, but how many people really get those? In any case, his EqA and VORP are middle of the pack, but he's just miles behind the truly good SS in baseball.
-
bull. that was a game saving catch... yeah because mench is a bad fielder
-
holy hell that was far
-
your criteria for "spectacular" must be a lot more loose than mine hey great job mets you bunch of a-holes. go back to that toilet of a stadium.
-
mench made that a lot tougher than it should've been
-
The Mets announcing crew is the best in the game though, so don't call them stupid. That was pointless analysis though, your right. Best in the game? I think Gary Cohen is pretty good, but this color man seems full of useless euphemisms.
-
there weren't many upgrades at SS available at the trade deadline, so i am fine with what theriot gives you there for the rest of this year. In the future I'd like somebody better, but I'd also like outfielders who can hit too, and I think that's a position that would've been easier to upgrade.
-
easy out, right?
-
stupid mets announcer ripping sele for not getting the ball away far enough... he got hart to make terrible contact and the ball dropped in
-
yay more lucky hits
-
corey hart is so ugly i wanna punch him in the face
-
maybe nobody... he threw only 31 pitches, he may start and just be limited to 5 or 6 innings
-
yeah better go out to the mound and talk about how to attack the dangerous david newhan