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  1. Rob
    yeah, but I couldn't talk the National Speakers Bureau out of nsb.com. :) Maybe try again after Javy renders them speechless.
  2. Rob
    Yeah, that's not a bad comp. The one I was keeping to myself was Bill Hall with a bit more power.
  3. Rob
    There's really no comping Baez easily. His primary defining attribute is his power, and that is really rare in the middle infield. Here's the entire list of 2B and SS with a career ISO over .200: Alex Rodriguez Alfonso Soriano Ernie Banks Troy Tulowitzki Rogers Hornsby Jeff Kent Nomar Garciaparra Dan Uggla Chase Utley Jose Valentin Hanley Ramirez Only Soriano, Uggla, and Valentin posted K% over 20%. So maybe Soriano or Uggla with plus defense at 2B? Or Valentin without any reason to expect a career .272 BABIP?
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  6. Rob
    I am resolved to not get worked up about callups this time. If it were me, they'd all stay down until late next April. But if the front office wants to bring them up earlier, I'll just take that as a sign that they're confident in their ability to get these guys to agree to favorable contracts.
  7. Rob
    Just because using rankings instead of actual values was killing me inside... I went ahead and compared wRC+ along with both FIP+ and xFIP+ (I went with the + versions of each to make them easier to compare). Everything is park and league adjusted, with a baseline of 100 for the uninitiated. A 105 would be 5% above league average, etc... http://i.imgur.com/151eLkH.png It's not surprising to see that their FIP+ figures fare better than their xFIP+. It just seems to indicate that playoff teams probably had good luck with their HR/FB rates. At any rate, the WS winners had better hitting than pitching, on the average.
  8. Rob
    You should have changed your font to comic sans then. As to point 1, I wont fight you. I was just speaking with regards to rankings of WS winners, which is an admittedly ridiculous criteria. (But one B2B will have trouble fighting against) With regards to point 2, I never meant to imply they're equal. Building around pitching is viable, but a whole hell of a lot tougher to pull off.
  9. Rob
    Not bad, but it really doesn't do much to isolate park and league adjustments. I really don't like using ERA as an indicator either. Team ranks for wRC+, FIP-, and UZR/150: http://i.imgur.com/5nKNdoL.png In what should be a surprise to absolutely nobody, hitting and pitching matter just about equally. You can build your ballclub around either. Edit: Oh, and for anybody wondering I went back to 2002 simply because that's as far back as we have UZR data for.
  10. Rob
    Eli Whiteside HR. Man, this kid is gonna be something special.
  11. Rob
    Soler strikes out looking, but it was a 9 pitch AB.
  12. Rob
    Glad to have ya around.
  13. Rob
    Let's not resort to the argument from authority. It can go both ways. Some pretty smart teams acquired pitching at the deadline this year. Some pretty smart GMs sold pitching. It's a fallacious argument at best. The "smart teams" that acquired pitching at the deadline were the teams that are the teams now now favored to go deep into the playoffs or to win the WS. The "smart GMs" that sold pitching realized that they had no chance of winning, so it was best to cash in the most valuable asset they had (pitching). Are you airquoting Friedman and Cherington as "smart GMs"? Quick, what's your take on Ruben Amaro Jr?
  14. Rob
    Daytona is under a rain delay. Shocker.
  15. Rob
    Let's not resort to the argument from authority. It can go both ways. Some pretty smart teams acquired pitching at the deadline this year. Some pretty smart GMs sold pitching. It's a fallacious argument at best.
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  18. Rob
    Deadline is over. Let's see what news finally trickles in.
  19. Rob
    Rumor has it the Cubs may have traded Bonifacio and Russell to the Braves. Edit: Ninja'd
  20. Rob
    Something that I heard today was that Lackey wouldn't play under the $500k option. He'd retire/sit out, rather than play. Seems like a good decision for a 36 year old if he wants to make any money after next year. This seems sarcastic but is in fact a realistic rationalization. There is very little incentive for him to go out and pitch for $500k next year. Yeah, Lackey has made over $100,000,000 in his career to date. He doesn't need to work if he's not getting paid reasonably. I wouldn't be surprised to see a renegotiated 2-3 year agreement that looks team-friendly.
  21. Rob
    Oh, and nice job on the article Kyle.
  22. Rob
    FUN STORY in early 2012, tim asked me and a couple other people if we'd be interested in writing entertaining articles for the front page. i said yes and sent tim an example of what i'd do. HE NEVER REPLIED (probably because he was too blown away by how awesome it was). now, for the first time ever, i will open the treymon vault and reveal what might have been. (spoiler it is a bunch of cheap shots at bosio and only mildly funny) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iXcGSfy7RfR9xJ_IIYwh2gHinEZYBcyMsj8-KwMBn1s/pub I was wondering if Tim ever actually asked anybody else. He implied a few unnamed other guys would start posting right after me and nobody ever did. It kinda sucked out the desire to participate.
  23. Rob
    Love Russell. C - Schwarber (yeah, right) 1B - Rizzo 2B - Castro SS - Russell 3B - Baez LF - Bryant CF - Almora RF - Soler Alcantara as super sub extraordinaire. Plenty of room for everybody.
  24. Rob
    I saw your test article tweets a bit ago Tim. Up to something?
  25. Rob
    Kinky http://img.pandawhale.com/67795-Brittany-Big-Brother-cringe-gi-Sa6f.gif
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