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  1. sneakypower
    this is still too mystical for my liking- we've finally stopped given tons of playing time to bad players and naturally the outcomes are better it's not luck or variance reversing course that we're doing much better with our best player back in the lineup, or showing Mancini/Hosmer/Mervis, Mastrobuoni, Boxberger the door having a nice run differential in the past doesn't promise a nice RD in the future and ROS projections still have us plainly mediocre so mostly we're just saying "we probably should've won more games than we did given how the team played on whole"
  2. sneakypower
    i agree with the sentiment our record isn't perfectly representative but it would be nice at the very least for run differential stats (to serve their intended purpose) to somehow be able to filter out hr derbys off backup catchers and a manager cruelly letting his pitcher wear a 13-spot
  3. sneakypower
    i don't think i know what mechanism you're suggesting here how would this be a possibility?
  4. sneakypower
    i hate to be that guy but if you're expecting "Nolan Arenado but CF" you might wind up a little bit disappointed
  5. sneakypower
    only real ones know
  6. sneakypower
    Nick Madigral as a Cub is 22% below league average OPS+; he's part of the problem not the solution hitting an empty .280 still makes you a very bad offensive player
  7. sneakypower
    "i'm feeling very good, let me tell you some more about a few good pitchers and like 20 non-prospects"
  8. sneakypower
    i'm a simple man, if i see that your expected wOBA is sandwiched between Mookie Betts and Freedie Freeman, i am going to insist that you keep playing regularly until you prove that's entirely fluky but those much smarter than me insist that where you place your catcher's mitt more than makes up for a .500 OPS, all told
  9. sneakypower
    something kinda funny i noticed
  10. sneakypower
    scouting services love to hand wave away stuff like that, "uh he can probably play RF if needed" as if positional familiarity & first steps are very easy to add a fantastic hitter like Nick Castellanos averages 1.6 WAR/150G for lack of other value to his game; maybe Cards think he's Ryan Braun in time which would make up for his deficiencies, but that's still a super high bar to clear
  11. sneakypower
    this rarity score blows my previous high out of the water, having a Cubs column is child's play i was surprised my Mets .300 pick wasn't way more chalk-y, and quickly realized the list of BAL-CHC is endless and so chock full of ignominy grid:
  12. sneakypower
    huh, so the NL adopting the DH was all just a dream i had
  13. sneakypower
    likely final line
  14. sneakypower
    Brown continues his dominance! with a 1-2-3 top half of the 5th! with a K, and 2 GOs!
  15. sneakypower
    hey i'm not being negative, that literally happened, i would've noted the 4 ip 0 bb 9 k but that was already stated
  16. sneakypower
    was lucky to not be donged by Andujar (3B off CF wall)
  17. sneakypower
    always funny to consider we have a 300/400/500 hitter in AAA that can deadlift a school bus who never gets a single mention as an actual prospect even in a painfully mediocre farm system
  18. sneakypower
    all hail the pitching lab
  19. sneakypower
    "hey there's some guys in Iowa putting up pretty nice offensive numbers.." *Aaron Miles gets sent down and goes 1500 OPS for a month*
  20. sneakypower
    this is ultimately his one identifiable skill, impressing people with MBA buzzwords
  21. sneakypower
    there's so much pure, uncut mediocrity throughout the entire organization, top to bottom that it's very hard to dream up scenarios where something inspiring can happen in the foreseeable future has been this way for a while though tbh
  22. sneakypower
    let's go live to wolf:
  23. sneakypower
    "good underlying data" re Caissie *cites the most atrocious contact rate imaginable*
  24. sneakypower
    well this lets me know to discount any encouraging offensive stats for Iowa players
  25. sneakypower
    right, realistically he's probably somewhere between Nick Castellanos & JD Martinez and apparently some would take that over Elly de la Tatis Jr. or whatever behemoth Holliday is looking likely to be
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