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  1. CubinNY
    They hae to change their names from the Athletics to the Aces
  2. CubinNY
    I like how you use true talent like it's an entity that exists. In life, at the end of the day you are the collection of behaviors you have emitted for that day, your potential to emit other behaviors is irrelevant. What you are talking about is what is expected vs what occurred. The statistical stuff is correct, but the rest is nonsense. There is no such a thing as "true talent". If the model doesn't map on to reality, it's the model that's off, not reality. You can't just chalk it up to variance and wash your hands. Baseball is not like flipping a coin. As an aside, these supposedly intelligent people should include confidence intervals on their predictions to account for variance instead of pretending they have a level of precision they do not have.
  3. CubinNY
    PCA not in the lineup today. Why isn’t he playing every day?
  4. CubinNY
    Good to see the Cubs beating up on the alsorans.
  5. CubinNY
    P-Wiss!
  6. CubinNY
    Torrens is wasting a spot.
  7. CubinNY
    Gotta get Steele out.
  8. CubinNY
    I read it wrong, my bad. where is the embarrassed emoji?
  9. CubinNY
    Hayden and Stroman walk out to music by Richard Wagner.
  10. CubinNY
    Please explain.
  11. CubinNY
    UMFan83 posted elsewhere that they have to run a gauntlet of really good teams in May. I'm going to reserve judgment on my expectations until then. They are clearly a top 6 team in NL if the pitching holds up. Better if Taillon and Hayden can improve. If they bring up Mervis soon who knows? They literally cannot be any worse at 1st base/DH.
  12. CubinNY
    His throws to 2nd have not been good. But he’s not alone in that respect. The Biscuits had over 20 stolen bases in the six games.
  13. CubinNY
    PCA is a really aggressive runner. He took home on a ball that got about 3 feet away from the catcher on a passed ball.
  14. CubinNY
    Nwogu. With his 3rd HR of the year. He is buff.
  15. CubinNY
    It's important to not get too high or too low in a short stretch of games, but the Cubs historically have not done well on west coast road trips, regardless of the level of the competition. It's really nice to see them playing good baseball. This A's team is an embarrassment to major league baseball.
  16. CubinNY
    Wisdom isn't really blocking Morel. I agree with Bertz, somewhat, but Morel is a poor man's Ben Zobrist and can play anywhere. If anyone is blocking Morel it's Madrigal, and that makes less sense to me.
  17. CubinNY
    Brett out there beating the Mervis drum. I agree.
  18. CubinNY
    I'm not much of a hockey fan, but as a sports fan, anything they can do to disincentivize tanking would be a good thing. I think a random lottery system would help in baseball. In a sport with a true salary cap, owners should be fined according to some formula based on their record and payroll by the league but it doesn't go against cap space. The fines should go to playoff teams. There is no reason for a team not to try and put their best product forward. In baseball, if it's impossible for teams like Miami, Cinnciatti, Pittsburgh, and Oakland to compete, the owners should be made to sell.
  19. CubinNY
    I'm loving the MLB.tv package. I've never watched so much minor-league baseball in my life. One thing that has struck me, and maybe it's a bias, but the Cubs minor league pitchers give a lot of walks, a lot. It seems like it's much more than they are taking. Why is that command is so bad? Is this something they don't concentrate on in "the pitch lab" or early development? To me, it seems like a good idea to work on command because it matters most. Alternatively, maybe it's typical, but it seems like strike throwing would be a necessary requirement to make to the draft.
  20. CubinNY
    Yikes!
  21. CubinNY
    Good series! Have to get 2 of 3 in Oakland
  22. CubinNY
    Over Mancini and Hosmer. Bring up Morel and Mervis.
  23. CubinNY
    Do not like.
  24. CubinNY
    I’ve said it before but I love Wisdom’s game. Bellinger!
  25. CubinNY
    The umpire behind the plate is not long for the job. He rang a Smokies hitter up on strike 2. Later he said a Smokies hitter a HBP but got overruled by the rest of the crew. Ended up being a passed ball.
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