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  1. Dirt Dog Sparly
    It is a huge step up professionally. Like going from an assistant plant manager to Asst. VP in charge of overseas operations and having the pedigree to handle it. If he has the same success in the Cubs system that he has had at Vandy he will be able to pick and choose where he wants to be head coach if he goes back to D1. IF being the operative word. I see this as an opportunity for him to have success here and then move onto the field as a pitching coach somewhere on someones major league staff. If Theoyer are smart and things break right, hopefully that happens here. Thats counting me with being a Bosio supporter.
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    I got to listen to him at an ABCA convention a few years ago. You guys would love him. He is backing up what he is saying with good bio mechanical studies and common sense. A very basic way of presenting it is when you are working on a drill that is all there is in the world. You have been provided the information to make you better. Now that that framework is done you must execute it correctly, then do it again a little bit better every time. One would think that it is a basic "well duh" what he is teaching but he raises it several levels. Then he outworks everyone else.
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    This isnt showing up as being on WGN on U verse. Is this a typo or is U verse wrong?
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    Why cant Vitters and Jackson play in the same lineup? :-k
  5. Dirt Dog Sparly
    If he's consistently 91-93 rather than 87-89, I may get pretty intrigued by Hendricks with his terrific control. If he works 87-89 and can reach back for 91-93 through an entire start you have to like that.
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    CCP just posted he's been sitting 87-89. Holding that velocity through the entire game or starting or end?
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    I'd be content dealing him in August. Question, because I'm dumb: If the Cubs put him on waivers and a team claims him and the two teams fail to make a deal, he can't be put on waivers again, right? Correct
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    The Reds clog the bases too much, obviously. :good: :clapping:
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    Meh. Upton is an athlete but question the mental side.
  10. Dirt Dog Sparly
    He mentioned Camp and minor leaguers, pulled McNutt out of his ass. After saying, "I shouldnt be saying this."
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    Los Angeles?
  12. Dirt Dog Sparly
    Traded to the Pirates for Brad Lincoln Then never mind. :hello:
  13. Dirt Dog Sparly
    Might be nothing but Travis Snyder pulled from Tor game in 7th.
  14. Dirt Dog Sparly
    Zimmers dad looks like Billy Ripken but his mom is a bit of a hottie. Ya know, just saying.
  15. Dirt Dog Sparly
    https://twitter.com/#!/kevin_goldstein Thinks it means that someone is injured.
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    For those that care, the link to the press release for the trade. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120421&content_id=29325488&vkey=pr_chc&c_id=chc
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    Since we are rebuilding from the foundation up, and not putting a team out there to contend this year, I am happy with letting Barney play for league minimum. A 2.2 WAR isnt to be sniffed at for that money. Considering he was a Shortstop who had to learn the blind pivot on the job last year I am not dead set against lettign him play full time one more year. The 13 Free Agent class is a bit thin at second from what I have found. If that means that because of scarcity that you would have to over pay for a marginal upgrade then I can see us taking a pass. As far as trades the Giants have two youngsters that are in the top 10 list. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120120&content_id=26403738&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb Of the two Joe Panick sounds to me like the one I would prefer to have. I dont know exactly how we would match up with the Giants in a trade at this point but with Lincecum and Cain both going to be FA very soon, (not to mention Arby), I can see them pushing very hard for low cost guys since thats all they can afford if they hold on to both pitchers. That would also complicate most trades and definitely rules out Soriano in any deal to them with us even picking up a large chunk of the remaining money.
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    Burke has a nice arm but since his High School days I have questioned his makeup/mental. I was rather surprised to see the Pods take him as early as they did, but knew he wanted to play, so it may have been a sign/monetary thing. Personally I wouldnt be upset if he was left off and someone else took him. The year spent in the majors and not playing would end his development IMO.
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    I didn't design the xBABIP formula so I can't give you an exact answer as to how many season in 100 the line will be within 'x' (my contribution is mostly basic algebra ;)). But let me see if I can't help explain a bit better... The simple fact of the matter (and the point of the exercise, really) is that even given a full season of 650 plate appearances, BABIP does not stabilize sufficiently. You can look at the back of a baseball card for your favorite player and probably pick out 2-3 seasons where he performed way over or way under what he normally did in the rest of his career. The purpose of this exercise is mostly to smooth out those sorts of years from a players career. If you put a gun to my head and made me answer, I'd probably say not to read too much into anything within 10, maybe 15 points of batting average for most players. Rob, thank you for taking the time to answer. So if I understand you right, anything within 10 to 15 points of a players average means his luck was pretty "normal". Anything beyond that means he needs a slumpbuster diet or needs to play the lottery more. Could you do this with a players career to see how lucky/unlucky they are or is that stretching it?
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    Rob, What should we view as the "margin of error" when looking at these lines? Given 100 seasons how close to the X line should a players 100 year average be? I am discalculic, which is dyslexia with numbers, so much beyond 7th or 8th grade math is very much a turkey shoot for me. My biggest problem with stat based evaluation lies there. I see and understand the methodology. Think that they are very good predictors and metrics of measurement. Just cant get the math to come out on a consistent basis so that I can do them myself.
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    Be careful they will come for you with torches and pitchforks next. please point me to the posts where people on nsbb are saying that things like defense and baserunning don't matter. That will be a long list. Let me get started on it.
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    Be careful they will come for you with torches and pitchforks next.
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    After that start they had Boston has been pretty darn good.
  24. Dirt Dog Sparly
    1) So does Quade kill a player or reporter tonight after the game? 2) Is Sandberg now praying nightly in thanks that he didnt get the job? Edited: Pain medicine is good :)
  25. Dirt Dog Sparly
    Well I was wrong, game is starting on time after all. :blush:
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