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  1. sneakypower
    maybe it'd be a good idea to platoon our entire team on the road
  2. sneakypower
    11 baserunners in 5 innings is not a good start. only 2 runs in 5 innings is you're really a hard person to please if you expect better from a 21 year old rookie pitcher than a 3.60 ERA facing the Yankees
  3. sneakypower
    uh oh youre going to be really pissed off when you start noticing hes really good out there in CF
  4. sneakypower
    somebody needs to create a least favorite batting stance thread quick because watching the Red Sox game reminded me how much i HATE watching Youkilis hit
  5. sneakypower
    conveniently glossed over is the immense defensive upgrade he's been from Floyd and Murton
  6. sneakypower
    he reminds me as a cross between Ichiro and Godzilla
  7. sneakypower
    i could watch this video 1000000000000 times
  8. sneakypower
    off topic maybe but OMG HIS PLAY IN THE FIELD TONIGHT best moment in baseball history
  9. sneakypower
    Ask Me Anything About Iowa
  10. sneakypower
    wwwait a second...
  11. sneakypower
    2007: fastball - 52.5% slider 37.3% 2008: fastball - 62.5% slider 32.4% he's throwing his fastball more often than last year for sure. he's lost a minor amount of velo on both but gained movement, which might contribute to lessened control. he's starting out hitters with FB 59% slider 31% was 73/27 last year
  12. sneakypower
    i too watch the games and think to myself what it would be like if he were playing CF hard to conceptualize, it's just such a maverick idea i wonder if any manager would ever try playing him there
  13. sneakypower
    the Joe Morgan obsession is even weirder than the cards & whitesox obsessions
  14. sneakypower
    battleyourtailoff looks like an ok one
  15. sneakypower
    he'll cure what ails them i bet you dollars to donuts they go on a decent run post ASB and his leadership is attributed for this
  16. sneakypower
    i'd wager pitchers would approach him differently if he had a park where he showed the propensity for hitting balls into the seats. if you're pitching in the Polo Grounds (with a decent CF), you'll probably try to induce guys into hitting flyballs into CF and won't care much if they go 400+ feet. i guess i'm saying i don't completely buy that you can just pick him up and move him into Wrigley and he'll be pitched to the same way. It'd be interesting to see if the SD pitchers induced more flyballs at home than they do on the road, but I don't know of anywhere where you can find splits on batted ball data. My guess is that there might be a slight slight variation, but its not like a pitcher has the ability to go from a GB pitcher to a FB pitcher or visa versa. If they DID have that ability, most likely it would come along with amazing control and a great repetoire of pitches and he'd be a ridiculously amazing pitcher regardless of what stadium hes in. oh no i agree with that, but my argument was not that you can change your batted ball type, but in this example you're not leery of pitching him inside because he'll just flyout deep to LF anyways, whereas you'd be less liberal about pitching him there in a park with a shorter fence in left.
  17. sneakypower
    this is kind of a weird argument. is the prevalent assumption that there should be no other factors considered when determining HOF status other than interpreted production? even looking squarely at his production, he makes a compelling argument for the HOF without factoring the rest of what he's brought to the game. he gets overrated compared to his production because no player in the game attracts more fans, and it's not even close. this is reminiscent of when Clemente gets called overrated, because his numbers don't quite match up with his legacy. it's not hard to understand how he transcends the game and also paved the way for other Japanese stars to make their way to the MLB and improve the quality of the game. and not to be overlooked is his dominance in Japan. the Baseball hall of fame enshrined Josh Gibson, who never played a game in the MLB. he'll be judged on the entirety of his professional career, and will be a sure-fire first ballot HOF.
  18. sneakypower
    i'd wager pitchers would approach him differently if he had a park where he showed the propensity for hitting balls into the seats. if you're pitching in the Polo Grounds (with a decent CF), you'll probably try to induce guys into hitting flyballs into CF and won't care much if they go 400+ feet. i guess i'm saying i don't completely buy that you can just pick him up and move him into Wrigley and he'll be pitched to the same way.
  19. sneakypower
    well if jocks in a locker room say it, it must be okay i dont know how you read my quote and interpreted my message as such. purposefully acting dense?
  20. sneakypower
    wait, all this outrage and offense over "What's the lucky groom's name?" i shudder to think of your guys reactions if you were ever on any HS sports teams, listening to the typical banter
  21. sneakypower
    i actually like Marquis' in that he stops in the middle of his motion Zito's is a bit bizarre, and I used to like Carlos Perez the most when he was in the league
  22. sneakypower
    he's got 95 rbis and #2 in the AL is 70 i think the media would be talking about him quite a bit if he wasnt a recovering crack addict
  23. sneakypower
    5 or 6 starts from now and he should have a 20 K game
  24. sneakypower
    Won't Hamilton be something like 32 when he first hits free agency? I don't know, I don't have the numbers in front of me. But I'll be interested to see what happens with Ryan Howard. He's got a lot of upsides, a ton of downsides, and he'll be sort of old when he hits free agency. Boras and Hamilton is an odd pairing Hamilton isn't even allowed by Narron to carry over 20 bucks in his wallet
  25. sneakypower
    i hate to beat a dead horse, but i really don't know why people persist with this fallacious nonsense. find me any statistician/sabermetrician who is willing to reconcile just simply throwing half of your sample in the trash. and if we're just not concerned with sample sizes, well then hell he's showing to have a 528 ops true talent level at this point in his career.
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