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  1. Rob
    I think that's because if a catcher sucks at hitting, people automatically assume he's good defensively. Jason Kendall is my favorite example. He was always considered a great hitter with an awful glove when he was in Pittsburgh. Now all the talking heads wont shut up about what a great defender he is. To be fair, he was one of the worst at throwing out baserunners before Ned Yost got to him. Jason Kendall's rSB from 2003 through 2010. -4, +2, -4, +4, -8, +8, -2, -1 Yeah, he had one very good year after going to the Brewers... but he's coasting on the reputation of a fluke year.
  2. Rob
    http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/search?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=shoulder&t=52078&sf=msgonly&ch=-1&start=0&p=2080638&view=show#p2080638 208 page thread. 14 results when searching for "shoulder"... most of which are referring to other people entirely. Strangely enough, Kyle was the only one harping on his shoulder back then.
  3. Rob
    I think that's because if a catcher sucks at hitting, people automatically assume he's good defensively. Jason Kendall is my favorite example. He was always considered a great hitter with an awful glove when he was in Pittsburgh. Now all the talking heads wont shut up about what a great defender he is.
  4. Rob
    SS is a wasteland too. Hanley/Tulo > Reyes >>> Jeter/Rollins > Drew/Alexei >>> junk
  5. Rob
    I don't have a problem with Samardzija getting a shot in the bullpen. I do have a slight problem with Reed Johnson over Perez and Ramirez. If we wanted a platoon hitter we should have gone with Ramirez. If we wanted a good defensive OF, Perez.
  6. Rob
    Koyie himself was surprised when people started referring to him as a good defensive catcher. When he was an actual prospect, everybody always said his bat (which actually profiled well at the time) would have to carry his defense.
  7. Rob
    And he has a better than 50/50 shot of living to the age of 60. Getting your hair caught in a car door and being dragged to your death can strike at any time.
  8. Rob
    Yeah, that snuck up on me a bit even though I'm in an auction league. There just aren't as many top tier OF as there were 5 years ago. The good news is that there's plenty of guys who aren't bad.
  9. Rob
    Quade referred to Castillo as a nice catching prospect in the pregame. I think if he were getting the backup catcher gig, Quade mightve said player instead of prospect. And Mojo, stop pretending Hill is a typical backup catcher. He's bad even by that admittedly low standard.
  10. Rob
    Don't go forgetting we get Garza for an extra year over what the Brewers get from Greinke.
  11. Rob
    His line wasn't that bad before today. Today I'm sure sealed his fate to not make the rotation. It looks like it will come down to whether they want to take Silva or Cashner. Hmm, the young flamethrower with ace potential or the fat guy with a heart condition who gives out runs like McDonalds does cheeseburgers. Why must life saddle us with such hard decisions? You had better hope Hendry doesn't read this forum because if he does, you've just inextricably linked Carlos Silva with cheeseburgers.
  12. Rob
    Yeah. He can ride the bus to and from Iowa all season long, but it's pretty likely he gets to spend the vast majority of the year with the big league club just because he's the only viable backup.
  13. Rob
    Quick copy-paste job from The Cub Reporter Obviously not all of those matter anymore... Anyway, what I get from that is that DeWitt has an option left but if we try to use it during the season we'd have to expose him to waivers.
  14. Rob
    Ahhh, gotcha.
  15. Rob
    I'd bet we've had scouts keeping an eye on him the last couple weeks. If we really are that down on DeWitt, he's almost certainly a better option than just handing the job to Baker.
  16. Rob
    I thought we only owed him 6 mil this season, after the Mariners picked up 5.5 of his 11.5 salary? If I had to guess how this plays out, Hendry is probably trying to trade him right now but wont find a taker. He'll probably push Cashner into the pen and let Silva start a few times. Those starts wont go well, we'll cut Silva, and try to move Cashner back into the rotation but probably give him a minor arm injury in the process of stretching him back out. We'll watch Coleman get pounded for a few weeks until Cashner is ready to start pitching again. Cashner will be ineffective and an MRI will show a tear in his elbow. He'll miss the next year after Tommy John surgery, and be stuck in the pen permanently after that, as he "couldn't handle a starter's workload." On the fringes of playoff contention at about 6 games back, we'll trade for Paul Maholm for the stretch run. We wont give up too much to acquire him, but Hendry will resign him to an overly expensive contract in the offseason. Probably about 3 years, 18 mil.
  17. Rob
    I don't know if Max Ramirez has options left. He may be getting taken off the 40 man if he doesn't make the team. And Jeff Baker isn't really an option if it means facing righties. We may be able to carry Davis as a 1B/3B backup and big bat off the bench.
  18. Rob
    Ron is really smiting our enemies from up there. Go get em.
  19. Rob
    You buying?
  20. Rob
    A good beekeeper would make the bees act nice.
  21. Rob
    I'd be forced to murder Jim Hendry if he gave up Cashner for Young.
  22. Rob
    I wont deny people misunderstand and misuse numbers all the time, but what about the synopsis makes you think the book is trying to educate people about statistics? Barring some craziness like the authors mother writing the synopsis, it's pretty clear they're just pointing at singular incidents and indignantly saying "your numbers didn't say that was going to happen, did they?"
  23. Rob
    Things would have to play out just about perfectly for me to be okay with picking him up. We'd have to give up almost nothing, the Rangers would have to pay the vast majority of his salary, and he'd have to be okay with playing in a capacity as the short side of the 2B platoon and as backup at 1B and 3B. Otherwise, I just don't see it as being worth it.
  24. Rob
    Rob I respect your opinion and we can usually have a civilized discussion even when we disagree. If you haven't picked up on it already, I'm mostly just pushing back against the mindset (clearly prevalent in this thread) that anything that is at all anti-sabermetric must automatically be a worthless pile of trash. I'm explicitly not trying to defend the book or its premise, primarily since I haven't even read it. I just think some of the pro-saber folks in here are coming off like pompous arrogant fools with their reflexive rush to judgement. Hey, I respect you enough to assume you knew the premise was indefensible. I wont deny for a moment that there may be a few tasty morsels of corn in the dung heap that is this book. It'd be quite impressive if they managed to write up an entire book and not make a couple good points. But ultimately, the rush to judgement in this case has to be considered warranted. If they cannot even write a synopsis that isn't riddled with illogical conclusions like sabermetrics not working for the Red Sox, the odds this book is anything but a trainwreck are nearly insignificant... tasty corn morsels or no.
  25. Rob
    davearm, stop being so damned predictable. The premise of the book is clearly laid out in the press release, and you know as well as anybody that there's no way to defend it.
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