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  1. sneakypower
    i'd love to hear the Ken Cal call on that
  2. sneakypower
    and looking at that table, it appears he's leading the league with the worst TO%, an ungodly 7.7 TO/g equivalent Carmelo really jumps out at you, i didn't realize he was so efficient in that spot
  3. sneakypower
    i actually greatly prefer Bill James to the rest. Zips, Marcel, Chone are much more regressed to the mean, and you'll have a smaller error if you're trying to do something like Meph's spreadsheet comparing your team to the rest of the league or something like that, but some of the exaggerated projections from James gives a better idea of which players have a higher upside, leading you to consider reaching on them in the draft. ie the huge projection he had for Josh Hamilton last year. it was way off the mark from what Pecota and Zips had for him, iirc, and obviously reaching on Hamilton paid huge dividends. i'm also still pissed at Pecota for Chris Young
  4. sneakypower
    yeah and that turned out so dismally. i for one hated the 1.77 ERA he gave us last year.
  5. sneakypower
    wow, SSR is the only one who makes sense in this entire thread. the rest is a terrible conglomeration of revisionist history. i would have loved it if we had included Fontenot in a Peavy trade so i could proclaim for all eternity that Sosa's rotting corpse netted us el Peavo. and meph, really? really?? Marte's minor league numbers surley portend he has significant talent with which to succeed in the majors, but it's a damn unforseeable mystery why Quentin, with like a .562 career OBP in the minors turned into a successful MLB producer? are you doing more of your rile-the-crowd devils advocate nonsense?
  6. sneakypower
    Amare's out 8 weeks after eye surgery for detached retina funny how that worked out
  7. sneakypower
    Ovie should have gotten an assist on that goal too, he made Hamrlik look really bad.
  8. sneakypower
    that's a really good deal for the Bulls Salmons is a viable 3rd scoring option and Miller still affords them the ability to part with Noah if the Amar'e talks resurface
  9. sneakypower
    i'd wager a guess Rivas would just get called up if an IF got hurt.
  10. sneakypower
    lol Gordon shot 50% scored 24 and was still a -45
  11. sneakypower
    March through June 340 PA, 15.5 BB%, 19.5 K%, 20.1 LD%, 50.9 GB%, .133 ISO, .349 BABIP July through October 250 PA, 11.8 BB%, 22.5 K%, 17.8 LD%, 50.1 GB%, .105 ISO, .251 BABIP
  12. sneakypower
    then next time say from the start that you believe fielding is a meaningless facet of a player's game and save us all some time
  13. sneakypower
    you give money for expected performance, not past. Harris, due to circumstances outside of his control, will very likely not repeat his contributions in fielding from last year. and he had a career year with the bat too, so you'd be making a bad gamble that he'd repeat it. but i don't think it's ridiculous to say his contributions on the field were of significant value last year. you can use this information to make a good projection, using regression and three years of data. but if players had arbitration which paid them after the season in relation to their on-field performance (on a FA payscale), fangraphs' salary value would provide the most accuracy of widely available statistics.
  14. sneakypower
    i know you're being sarcastic, but there's still like eight simple concepts here you're clearly not grasping
  15. sneakypower
    sure, in a full season he can be. but i didn't even say that at all. everybody's completely ignoring the marketing side, but that's a different story altogether. you're railing on the fangraphs way of player valuation and the open market way of player evaluation. got any better ideas? gut feel, hunches? it's hard keeping up with your fanaticism.
  16. sneakypower
    umm, thanks for your quote snapshot of the article, saving me from having to take the time to read it there
  17. sneakypower
    good move on Miami's end in getting Moon along with O'Neal
  18. sneakypower
    the key flaw in their system is it judges worth based only on FA salary. many teams can pull up guys like Kubel or Scott to be competent enough with 800+ OPS where you don't need to waste $10m on Free Agents for slightly improved production. but the FA market had been (until this year) obviously tremendously flawed, where guys like Jose Guillen can make 8 figures annually, and a team that doesn't feel they have an player in-house who can adequately play the position gets desperate enough to give out stupid contract like Jose received. that's what Bradley is being compared to. i think it's fair to say that compared to other recent FA signings we got a pretty reasonable deal. it's really the only aspect of the offseason i'm happy about. http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/v/mlb/players_l/20080402/6154.jpg?x=65&y=85&xc=1&yc=1&wc=164&hc=215&q=100&sig=LCwAE1TFB2scz.nmPVAI3w--
  19. sneakypower
    well, then your problem is having him in any clubhouse. in what way?
  20. sneakypower
    yes, plz, let's get Elijah Dukes, Lastings Milledge and Milton Bradley in the same clubhouse. Dukes & Milledge were in the same clubhouse last year and they didn't go on any gang banging rampages. Dukes has HOF talent. its worth the gamble.
  21. sneakypower
    Dukes and Milledge plz
  22. sneakypower
    Holy crap. Nice numbers.. i noticed he's the #1 ranked player for the last month in yahoo fantasy basketball, #2 of all people is Troy Murphy (Lebron #3).
  23. sneakypower
    wait, what?
  24. sneakypower
    yeah, good going. he's costing them Griffin.
  25. sneakypower
    a little off-topic, but i'm more perturbed that Bonds was permitted to wear massive body armor and hang over the plate with impunity, than i am about him roiding up
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