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  1. 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.
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    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.
  3. Rob
    Eli Whiteside HR. Man, this kid is gonna be something special.
  4. Rob
    Soler strikes out looking, but it was a 9 pitch AB.
  5. Rob
    Glad to have ya around.
  6. 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?
  7. Rob
    Daytona is under a rain delay. Shocker.
  8. 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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  11. Rob
    Deadline is over. Let's see what news finally trickles in.
  12. Rob
    Rumor has it the Cubs may have traded Bonifacio and Russell to the Braves. Edit: Ninja'd
  13. 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.
  14. Rob
    Oh, and nice job on the article Kyle.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Rob
    I saw your test article tweets a bit ago Tim. Up to something?
  18. Rob
    Kinky http://img.pandawhale.com/67795-Brittany-Big-Brother-cringe-gi-Sa6f.gif
  19. Rob
    It cracks me up how much O's fans value the guy. The Red Sox are giving us a better pitcher in Doubront for a PTBNL. I doubt they turn right around and trade Lester for Gonzalez.
  20. Rob
    WAR uses xFIP? I thought it was based on actual, not prediction... fangraphs uses fielding independent numbers...but i think it's the FIP, not xFIP, which DUH that explains it BR uses ERA Confirmed. Fangraphs - FIP Baseball-Reference - ERA
  21. Rob
    He's certainly got his work cut out for him on this one.
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  24. Rob
    You're not wrong. I don't know what the solution is. Maybe if we unbanned Da Bum then the board would be more focused on him. Then the lurkers wouldn't get swarmed when they pop up with an uninformed opinion, and we might see a few people start to get more active.
  25. Rob
    I would think that being less wrong would be a better solution. Everybody starts somewhere. I was pretty meatballish still around the time I started posting. Good arguments with smart posters finally brought me around. I think part of the problem for lurkers now is that there's this expectation that they have to already understand all the SABR stuff before they can start posting. And that's just silly. It's a moving target. As the game changes so do all the old SABR rules. It wasn't that long ago that being SABR-savvy meant loving guys like Adam Dunn, which certainly isn't the case anymore. Fielding and baserunning are emphasized more now. With the lower run environment, the sacrifice bunts we used to hate are strategically viable in a much larger number of scenarios. Looking forward, I think we're going to start to see more focus on things like power hitting, positional flexibility, and bullpen usage. I don't know what my point is. Lurkers should post more often though.
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