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that's fine, let's throw Sewell out of the mix. you're still left with Tony Gwynn at 87 and Pierre at 188 as the only two players in remotely modern time to show up on the list; granted, i just eyeballed the list and i'm not even going to bother with felix fermin. #2 is a non-factor. Pierre's remarkable K avoidance is essentially the only thing separating him from the hundreds of other unemployed track stars like Eric Reed & Nook Logan. there's really no shortage of players who put primary emphasis on contact in practice. look at just about every team's crappy utility player.
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what the h 114 K in 7132 AB; thats what, 2 months worth of K for Mark Reynolds spead out for 14 seasons. but impressive as that is, i think that really speaks a lot to the kind of stuff pitchers had in those days. yadier molina - 163 k in 1720 ab (9.4%), 98 iso bengie molina - 365 in 3865 ab (9.4%), 135 iso juan pierre - 308 k in 5117 ab (6%), 70 iso joe sewell - 1.6 K%, 101 iso there's just nothing comparable to that right now. juan pierre registers as the 188th best K rate in history, and nellie fox is the only guy within the top 20 who played in games past the early-1950s, retiring in '65. this is one of many reasons i'm convinced pitchers didnt have nearly the movement on breaking balls we're seeing today. really the only other explanation would be umpires having far stricter strike zones on pitchers, uniformly. i also like sewell's 3 for 19 in steals for 1927
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9/5 Other Games
sneakypower replied to Little Slide Rooter's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
its about as bad as fans singing a kinda dumb song after each home win -
is it possible to decline a playoff invitation?
sneakypower replied to imb's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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and because his glove is stellar
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SF building for the future
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maybe he was only comparing just Colletti, Bowden and Sabean and Colletti came out on top
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Re: Harden has shoulder discomfort now too
sneakypower replied to third eye's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
first Z then Koyie Hill and now Harden?? get everyone to a safe place Lou! do we have a hidden bunker somewhere????? -
if nothing else, i'd sneak into the visitors clubhouse and give him a code red
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thats elijah dukes you dumb bastard Ronnie Belliard and Manny Acta have even been quoted that the team was playing with a sense of complacency in his absence; not having their kids lives threatened if they suck
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warner lynch and engrams hurt, so obviously other 2
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your math is forgetting better pitchers who didn't qualify. there were only 80 pitchers in baseball who pitched enough innings to qualify for ERA title. where does that leave him, 43/80? or are we just assuming every pitcher left is awful and wouldn't possibly post higher FIPs to bump him further down the rankings? so if you loosen the innings constraints to 130 he becomes the owner of the 52nd best FIP in the league, out of 112. that may be a bit unfair, but my entire stance was i don't know that there's any way you can slice it where he was "among the top pitchers in the league". unless of course you're looking into his numbers with obvious tunnel vision.
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43rd best FIP in baseball *amongst qualified starters* doesn't really scream 'elite pitcher' to me that's what, ok #2, good #3? sounds about right
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Sherrill's awful, but Chris Tillman isn't. i know the Orioles are going to profit more in that trade than the Indians in the Choo trade, but Bedard had ace potential and that was the market for him. oh, it was misguided, but there was never any legitimate reason to give up a really solid prospect for a 1B with upside as simply an average hitter playing 1B if you platoon him right. and it obviously went south really, really quick.
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last 65 games fwiw .391 avg .609 slg, 25 doubles 67 runs and 10 sb to boot that's a torrid 2/5 season stretch that will probably color some writers opinions, given its timing
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morgan check stoney check
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Shin-Soo Choo for Ben Broussard- the worst Bavasi acquisition? consult post-ASB numbers before scoffing at the premise
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i'm glad you're willing to repeatedly reiterate when you're right about something some of us have bad memories
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obviously we all know how useless R, RBI are as stats but it's still hard to understand how a guy with a line of .364/.468/.643 is languishing at 14th & 12th in the NL for runs and RBI, respectively the easy answer would be bad lineup, but he's got Ludwick, Glaus, Ankiel and Schumaker surrounding him in the lineup; hardly a motley crew of talent
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he's been really GD good this year
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and since then have looked like utter poop, sans a decent screen to McGuffie
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Dustin Pedroia has higher VORP than Josh Hamilton Harden has more K than Johan Santana, in 60 fewer innings
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Where did you pick? Brady, Barber and Fitz are all top 15 players. 4th. ESPN might have had Fitzgerald ranked lowly allowing him to slip to me at 28 or so. it also helps there's at least 5 other high end WRs who were taken before that point.
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jacoby ellsbury OPS - 674 556 since the ASB ROY award is probably going elsewhere
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i like that you drafted Rice; McGahee's definitely not going to be starting for 16 games. but personally i'd prefer to have a better backup than Schaub for a starter with concussion concerns. like the Johnson & Lewis picks, dislike Ward & Galloway picks. i think i fared decently in a 12 team league: qb - brady rb - barber III rb - e. graham wr - fitzgerald wr - r white/b marshall wr/rb - bowe te - witten lbs - barnett, beason de - vandenbosch, hali dbs - j phillips, landry k - nedney with aaron rodgers, kevin smith, meachem, o'sullivan and some others on the bench
