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  1. sneakypower
    today i learned that a .914 OPS isn't particularly good
  2. sneakypower
    I don't see a point of this. He's a nice platoon option. You can find a use for a cheap guy like that, or another team might. Now, there's no more dreaming of a big trade, but maybe some team offers you a low A gamble this offseason, when teams can sit back and take a deeper breath to assess their needs and assess how guys can fit. If you can get some sort of gamble for LaHair, why not? And maybe they decide, hey, let's keep him around as a cheap bench bat, rather than wasting money on a FA bench bat (if they felt a need to add one). Since April he's been almost completely useless at the plate, and while I can't find month by month L/R splits, he's faced so few of them total that I don't really think they're dragging his numbers down. He's just not a major league hitter unless he can play a capable SS or something. so, just arbitrarily throwing out his month of 1250 OPS, he's been a (La)hair below MLB average as a hitter and he's put up a .310 OPS vs. lefties, so yes, they're undoubtedly dragging his numbers down it's fine to say he has no role as a starter on the team because of defensive limitations, but there's still no legitimate reason to believe that he's not a capable MLB hitter vs. righties
  3. sneakypower
    well, Cabrera seems to have a decent slider
  4. sneakypower
    Brett Jackson or Angel Pagan and Joe Blanton, or Liriano, or Santana, or Saunders it shouldn't be terribly difficult
  5. sneakypower
    well that was a little embarrassing
  6. sneakypower
    isoD is sometimes distorted by HBP rates, like Baez for one; BB% usually makes more sense and yeah, Vitters is having a fine season, if you completely just pretend defense isn't a thing
  7. sneakypower
    ISO 2012: .150 2011: .125 2010: .108
  8. sneakypower
    Castro's so damn exciting
  9. sneakypower
    Liriano was 3-10 with a 5.31 ERA and is FA-to-be Maholm was 9-6 with a 3.74 ERA and has a cheap option so while i'm probably the biggest Liriano fan there is, i'm not surprised at all that Liriano was a much tougher sell at the deadline
  10. sneakypower
    Sickels' update:
  11. sneakypower
    Rosenthal: "Upton is getting traded by #Diamondbacks"
  12. sneakypower
    Torreyes (per milb.com) first half (199 AB): .221/.284/.302 - 7% K, .235 BABIP, .081 ISO second half (133 AB): .331/.392/.519 - 5.6% K, .331 BABIP, .188 ISO and remember, he started the season as the youngest player in the league, by about 6 months http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/prospects/2012/04/the-youngest-players-in-each-full-season-league/
  13. sneakypower
    http://roadto90.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/keithlaw.jpg though admittedly i did lift the nickname from some blogger who had some hilarious vendetta against him
  14. sneakypower
    You call it turning up their nose, I call it realistic descriptions of what we got. Sure we can use such things. But they aren't exactly tough to find. And there's no cause for celebration once you get them. our bullpen FIP is 4.65 and has been below-replacement; good relievers are hard enough to find
  15. sneakypower
    i'm gonna go with a-rod-deez and since everybody hates Keith Dumb Bunny, Piliere had him #21, Sickels had him #32, BA had him #40 it's also really odd how everybody's turning up their nose at likely bullpen prospects, as if we have no use for those
  16. sneakypower
    i may have just fainted
  17. sneakypower
    JR Graham and Zeke Spruill
  18. sneakypower
    it's never too early to look at per-162 game splits! right now, he's playing at a 42 HR, 72 K pace (last year it was a 3 HR, 152 K pace) can we all send a fruit basket or something to whoever it was that lowered his hands?
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    http://i.imgur.com/hwHNc.gif
  20. sneakypower
    Matt Lolliday
  21. sneakypower
    Jay Jackson's numbers in relief are legitimately encouraging: 33-2/3 IP, 27 H, 14 BB, 37 K 2.14 ERA, 1.22 WHIP
  22. sneakypower
    yeah, they'll probably be too insulted by his indecision to want him anymore, and knowingly just torpedo their season by throwing Jair Jurjjens and his 7+ ERA out there every five days or give up 2-3x the return in prospects for another SP, i guess
  23. sneakypower
    best rookie seasons by fWAR
  24. sneakypower
    at the point of that discussion, his career line was .260/.323/.455 and since then, he's produced a .435 babip-fueled .389/.442/.658 line, so it's safe to say that's a harder argument to make these days with the benefit of full hindsight, you're remarkably insightful it seems
  25. sneakypower
    just 77 games in, and he's already reached 6 WAR he's slugging .606 he leads all of baseball in wOBA he leads all of baseball in runs he leads all of baseball in steals (he's also missed 22 games of the season) he made this catch: oh, and he hasn't reached drinking age yet
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