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  1. sneakypower
    17 walks this season after a career best, 22 last year in 170 more PAs. same BB rate* as he had in AA, and about a quarter of his isoD is HBP's his patience is still dreadful *this is the same BB rate that (notorious-hacker-with-a-pretty-swing) Gordon Beckham's posting right now, too
  2. sneakypower
    he's posted just 1.7 fWAR in his last 39 starts; he's probably not any good anymore
  3. sneakypower
    Scott Moore at 2B made me laugh
  4. sneakypower
    6 no-hit innings so far, 9 K we've made a huge mistake
  5. sneakypower
    just? he's been trying to get fired for a pretty long while now
  6. sneakypower
    You could've made almost this exact same case you're trying to make for Micah Hoffpauir. Hoffpauir through 302 PA: .787 OPS, small platoon split LaHair through 301 PA: .890 OPS, huge platoon split sure, i guess he could still wash out, but the argument that you can definitively make sweeping judgments of a player based on only a month's worth of at-bats is just so patently absurd
  7. sneakypower
    i guess i should have more painstakingly vetted the specific verbiage i had put for that, so as to (hopefully) avoid your tiresome semantical-quibbling fixation
  8. sneakypower
    2009 - completely destroys RHP in the PCL: not representative 2010 - completely destroys RHP in the PCL: not representative 2011 - completely destroys RHP in the PCL/MLB: not representative April - Mid-May 2012 - completely destroys RHP in the MLB: not representative Mid-May - June 2012 - doesn't completely destroy RHP in the MLB: YUP THIS IS WHO HE IS edited for gooney-proofing
  9. sneakypower
    point conceded. it really is unfortunate that the Cubs just signed this guy out of the local Benihana and that we don't have any record of his performance in any type of professional baseball the past several years with which we could have some idea about his abilities
  10. sneakypower
    you're arbitrarily shrinking the sample size and making specious inferences other frauds/flash-in-the-pans Paul Konerko: thru May 27 - 1.157 OPS since - .572 Rafael Furcal: thru May 13 - .965 OPS since - .533 OPS Chris Young: thru May 22 - 1.055 OPS since - .516 OPS Kelly Johnson: thru May 8 - .855 OPS since - .579 OPS JJ Hardy: thru May 16 - .807 OPS since - .546 OPS there's actually many more examples i can cite if you'd like, and LaHair's OPS is actually considerably better during the 'crashing-to-earth' phase he's apparently going through
  11. sneakypower
    the Dodgers are getting a .649 OPS out of their 1B this year Lahair's posted an .890 OPS with the Cubs, including a .980 OPS vs. RHP (.475 vs. LHP) he's unquestionably a significant upgrade for them, provided they do their best to never let him face a single lefty
  12. sneakypower
    it's called ".374 babip", and he had a 4.4 fWAR two years ago in 3/4 of a season he "figured it out" at age 30, just like JR Towles is going to do
  13. sneakypower
    oh good, now we can trade Dempster with a clear conscience
  14. sneakypower
    Brett Jackson and the 1.400 OPS Game You Can't Even Be Happy About
  15. sneakypower
    this is mostly baseless speculation, right?
  16. sneakypower
    so during his worst stretch, he's still performing like a borderline #2? oh, the humanity i guess this is just this week's installment of "kyle arbitrarily shrinks the sample size to make stupid inferences"
  17. sneakypower
    his FIP is 3.86 for the past month (3.58 xFIP, 3.66 siera), so unless you have any reason to believe his .405 babip or his 60% LOB are likely to persist, this isn't really much of a concern also, on the year he has a FIP within 5 pts of Hamels, Kershaw, Dempster, Peavy, Halladay, Johan Santana, CJ Wilson...he's fine
  18. sneakypower
    Jackson, Castillo, and to a much, much lesser extent Vitters are only exciting because they might allow us the flexibility to sign a star like David Wright or BJ Upton, but neither should by any means be considered a building block (barring significant development) think of them like you would Barney, basically
  19. sneakypower
    can't wait to see how early we sub out half the lineup
  20. sneakypower
    oh hey, Juwan Howard will get a ring...i'm on board with that
  21. sneakypower
    UZR's been really unimpressed with DeJesus's defense so far, rating him -5.6 after a +10.1 (for RF) season last year; i'd expect him and Campana to post better defensive scores than what they've done so far, presuming they stay at RF and CF also, his wOBA has been hurt a bit by his 2-for-7 SB rate
  22. sneakypower
    Tigers fans still trace every problem back to letting "the perfect #2 hitter" Placido Polanco walk, and LOOOOOOOVE(D) Brandon Inge
  23. sneakypower
    oh man, so much love for those Rays unis
  24. sneakypower
    i think the balls are made of rubber or something, in that video it keeps bouncing like they're playing on the moon
  25. sneakypower
    thumb injury, shoulder injury, shoulder injury, nothing, velocity drop
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