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  1. Rob
    He wrote this at 1:15 am, well after the Iowa game was over. That might be my bad. I sent him an email around 11 pm central telling him what was going on, and that there had been no indications of an injury to that point. congratulations on being the source of a bogus story! Pish posh. I clearly outlined that it was only something to keep an eye on or to kick the tires around on... nothing to go to print with.
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    Sunday when I saw him in Iowa, he looked much more relaxed in RF. He was getting good jumps, covering quite a bit of ground and made some tough plays that looked like extra bases of the bat. He should be an upgrade over Floyd defensively. A wooden cutout of Murton wouldnt be that far behind Floyd defensively. With or without the wheelchair? He gets the wheelchair, but one wheel doesn't spin... so all he can do is spin around in circles.
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    It's quite alright. We all had to start somewhere learning about this stuff. I still don't want anybody asking me about the difference between SuperVORP and WARP. can i ask...not trying to be a jerk...but i was curious about those things too... Just don't ask Rob to tell you when to use WARP vs WARP3. I still maintain that comparing Ichiro to other players in the AL this year is more important than comparing him to guys who played during WWII. :D I was just pushing your buttons. Oh yeah? Well, I'll push... your mom. Yeah, I guess that one kinda works. :lol:
  4. Rob
    If his contract for next year is voided if he's traded during this year, how do they trade him in the offseason? It's not that his contract is voided, it's that the club option for 08 is voided. All the Reds have to do in the offseason is exercise the club option during the window its open, and then trade him off... but they can't exercise that option yet.
  5. Rob
    It's quite alright. We all had to start somewhere learning about this stuff. I still don't want anybody asking me about the difference between SuperVORP and WARP. can i ask...not trying to be a jerk...but i was curious about those things too... Just don't ask Rob to tell you when to use WARP vs WARP3. I still maintain that comparing Ichiro to other players in the AL this year is more important than comparing him to guys who played during WWII.
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    OPS+ by age. Pudge: 19 - 75 20 - 88 21 - 98 22 - 117 23 - 102 24 - 104 25 - 114 26 - 120 27 - 125 28 - 152 29 - 130 30 - 123 31 - 124 32 - 135 33 - 94 34 - 98 35 - 93 Posada: 25 - 102 26 - 114 27 - 97 28 - 134 29 - 119 30 - 123 31 - 146 32 - 133 33 - 105 34 - 127 35 - 149 Varitek: 26 - 85 27 - 100 28 - 84 29 - 124 30 - 94 31 - 120 32 - 121 33 - 125 34 - 85 35 - 104 LoDuca: 27 - 68 28 - 75 29 - 144 30 - 100 31 - 92 32 - 99 33 - 92 34 - 105 35 - 82 Kendall: 22 - 102 23 - 115 24 - 131 25 - 137 26 - 125 27 - 80 28 - 83 29 - 115 30 - 110 31 - 77 32 - 89 33 - 45 Posada is the only one of the five who is still hitting much anymore.
  7. Rob
    It's quite alright. We all had to start somewhere learning about this stuff. I still don't want anybody asking me about the difference between SuperVORP and WARP.
  8. Rob
    No on the infield dribblers part. You don't get credited for a sacrifice unless you're attempting to lay down a bunt to move the runner over.
  9. Rob
    Yeah, TB is total bases. SH is sacrifice hits, a.k.a. sac bunts.
  10. Rob
    BABIP is batting average on balls in play. ISO is Isolated Power. I'm not a huge saber guy, so I'm not really familiar with ISO or RC/27 I explained ISO below, but RC/27 probably needs some explanation as well. RC stands for Runs Created. There are much simpler formulas, but the best one commonly used is RC = [(H+BB-CS+HBP-GIDP) x (TB+(.26 x (BB-IBB+HBP)) + (.52 (SH+SF+SB)))] / (AB+BB+SH+SF+HBP). That's pretty complicated though, so just for fun, the basic formula is. RC = [(H+BB)xTB] / (AB+BB) Essentially, RC/27 is runs created per 27 outs. In other words, if you had an offense entirely comprised of that one player, how many runs would that team score per 9 innings on average?
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    BABIP is Batting Average on Balls In Play. Basically, it's when you put the ball in play (i.e. not a home run or a strikeout), whether that ball falls in for a hit or not. Generally speaking, it runs around LD% + .110 or .120, depending on who you ask. ISO is isolated power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. It's a basic measure of how much power somebody hits for, since slugging percentage is fairly dependant on how many singles somebody hits.
  12. Rob
    I'd been saying for quite a while that the best moves we could make at the deadline would be simply to fill in our holes from our system. If we start Cedeno, Murton, and Soto from here on out, it'd be about the same as trading for three new starters. This is a step in the right direction, with Cedeno coming up and now Murton. Now we just need to bring Soto up and make all three of them the regulars.
  13. Rob
    I wouldn't be willing to give up Pie for Hunter, but I'd be willing to give up EPatt and a decent reliever or something.
  14. Rob
    He wrote this at 1:15 am, well after the Iowa game was over. I take it we should probably just assume Will is mistaken here...? :) Why? Well, I was half-joking. If we take Carroll's word as truth, the thread explodes another 10 pages, whether he actually knows more than we do or not. It's a pretty bold contradiction to what the Iowa manager said, so it's probably not true... until Will updates and mentions Bailey's comment, and still claims injuries weren't behind it. Or another source picks it up. Again, I know I'm at least part of the source saying they weren't injured. I'm not sure if he looked further into it after that or not, but given his prior work on the rumor mill, I wouldn't be surprised at all if my comment alone is what he was working off of.
  15. Rob
    He wrote this at 1:15 am, well after the Iowa game was over. That might be my bad. I sent him an email around 11 pm central telling him what was going on, and that there had been no indications of an injury to that point.
  16. Rob
    If memory serves, I want to say Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker were caught throwing games. Ban Johnson just gave them a slap on the wrist and sent them on their way, though... and both are now in the Hall. Just throwing that out there.
  17. Rob
    Yeah, but their 3rd order winning percentage places them behind the Mets, Braves, and Dodgers. What's the difference between the two? Essentially, you substitute predicted runs based on how everybody is hitting, ballpark, pitching staffs faced, etc... instead of actual runs and runs allowed. It pretty much takes Aramis's .325/.438/.600/1.038 line with 2 outs and RISP and adjusts it down to his normal line and sees what we would have hit against a neutral staff in a neutral park... and then does the same for pitchers that have been unlucky or lucky based on their numbers with 2 outs.
  18. Rob
    I'm not even gonna watch it, cause I know you're making a bad joke of some sort. Grow up.
  19. Rob
    Two injuries?
  20. Rob
    Nothing yet.
  21. Rob
    Also perhaps worth noting is that Matt Craig and Joseph Simonkaitis had not had ABs at AAA this year. Maybe the manager just thought a 7-1 game was a good time to start getting these guys some PT?
  22. Rob
    Well, Jacque wasn't pulled tonight... so I have a hard time believing they traded him. As if they were close, they would have pulled him.
  23. Rob
    Could be a trade, too.
  24. Rob
    We're looking into a modbot for you, since it's a 24-hour job. Are you making fun of my insomnia? It's a medical condition, and I think it's extremely inappropriate to single me out because of it. What's next, ripping into me for my gimp leg? You should be ashamed of yourself. :lol:
  25. Rob
    Or Edward K. from Indianapolis. :D Does anybody still have those Edward K ones? I can't even remember what was so funny about it at this point.
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