Sammy Sofa

Excellent.

If it comes down to an issue of what they need then what they want becomes irrelevant, especially if it's a guy who initially exercised his 10/5 rights.

Patience, my succulent little chunk of blubber.

Oh, Youtube. First comment: Which, of course, 22 people gave a thumbs up to.

False. You keep moving the goalposts as to what you're even arguing and making up what others are saying, and I really just don't give a [expletive] about it anymore. We're done.

I mean, if your goal is to look at player evaluation as simply being a matter of good or bad, then there's nothing further to discuss. That's primo meatballery.

I cut them down to show you the painfully obvious; it's your problem, not mine, that you don't understand BAbip and LD% and the like to see that he was actually performing (and how his numbers in April were skewed) along the lines of what was hoped until the wrist sidelined him. Of course players are going to go hot and cold, and we only have a little sample size with which to judge Stewart this year, but you're acting like his good numbers are flukishly good as opposed to being what should be expected. Based on the numbers, yes, it appeared that he had a decent shot of getting back to his 2009-2010 production until he had to be shut down. You're trying to present any success he had as an anomaly when those numbers are actually more in line with his career numbers than being representative of some kind of anomalous hot streak. Unless you're saying you think the 182 PA from 2011 and 2007 are more indicative of his line than the 1236 PA between 2008 and 2010.

Also from that blog post... Ugh.

I honestly have no idea how to argue with this. You're convinced that what you managed to watch is somehow more accurate than the stats. You're talking like Ian Stewart and Ian Stewart's wrist are two separate things. I'm pretty confident you're pretty confident in a lot of weird things. I have no idea what you're talking about; Ian Stewart has not played at all in the 2nd half of this season.

Yeah, as a teacher myself the whole "I don't give a [expletive] about grammar and spelling because it's the internet" that guys like this and hccf all but brag about drives me up the wall. How is spelling things correctly and trying to use proper grammar something you just switch off? I can understand abbreviations/acronyms or not capitalizing, but these guys seemingly have everything just break down on them when they're trying to put together a thought. It honestly reads like someone who is drunk or having a stroke.

Maybe. Look, in all seriousness, you're giving your eyes way too much credit.

Sounds about right.

And now I posted the whole thing. I don't care what you "felt;" the numbers show he WAS tremendously unlucky to start the season. You adjust his numbers based on that and, shocker, his pre-May numbers look like his May numbers which, double-shocker are in the area of what we'd be hoping he'd be able to put up. He was bouncing back from 2011 and was trending in the right direction until he could no longer play through the wrist issues. That's why they traded for him, and that's why it's still an interesting question of what he'll be able to do after the surgery.

That's how you guarantee you are .500. Might as well claim it all!

You can't be .500 when at some point you've agreed with everyone.

Hi, I'm Wellington! Hi, I'm Welinton! OH MY GOD, IT MUST BE THE SAME PERSON!!!

When Ian Stewart puts up a 2.0 WAR, feel free to ask me how I feel about him. Hasn't happened yet. Well, BR says he has; Fangraphs says 1.5. Let's meet in the middle. Though still, it's fun to watch you flail in your trolling.

Rameriz is a completely different name than Ramirez.

Your "favor" is unrealistic standards and shoddy stat jockeying. Let's break this down (hopefully) for the last time: Why was I pointing out that line? Because here's what Stewart put up in 2009: .228 .322 .464 .785 Here's what he put up in 2010: .256 .338 .443 .781 Here's the line you keep harping on: .246 .338 .456 .795 Here's what he ended up doing in May: .225 .329 .437 .766 Once again, what were people realistically hoping for out of Stewart? A serviceable 3B. The hope was that he'd be able to bounce back from his injury-saddled/shortened 2011 and put up numbers along the lines of 2009-2010 coupled with his improved defense. Until he was sidelined with the wrist that's what he appeared to be capable of doing again, especially once you adjust for his extreme bad luck in April. That was the goal of trading for Stewart, and it's unfortunate that it turned out like it did for 2012, but it was a chance worth taking.

Because I find you contemptible. This isn't complicated.

So is this guy some kind of bitter savant that remembers every post that disagreed with him or does he actually bookmark them?

you have this way backwards, you are almost talking about yourself here! I didn't start with stats until I was hit with the line"you state your opinion but have shown no statistics to back it up" so I used them. you used a stat line for less than 3 weeks to stewart was coming out of bad luck. I only showed sinilar stat lines in an attempt to show you haw ridiculous it is to show a slice of stats to prove a point...not to prove mine. I showed you inge's 3 weeks that were better..even though he was done, I showed a 3 week slice from adam dunn's terrible last year to show that even in the absolute worst possible season, you could find a good couple weeks THAT MEAN NOTHING. My showing those stats were to presuade you away from your original taunt of me that read: sounds like a partial line disregrading PA... it's probably more to do the fact that I dared disagree with the hierachy, and was also right. While you keep trying to change the direction to shield the fact that your wrong, and you can't stand it. and for: Colvin had 220 plate appearances in 2011 and was bad. He started 47 games, over half of those after august 1st when he was already deep in a slump. if you have ever played the hardest thing to do is hit when you are not playing regularly, the next hardest is to dig yourself out of a slump, especially when you are mentally struggling..."see adam dunn". I am not saying this was the problem but it was definitely not the best position to put him in or to find out what he could do. 2010 was very solid, and 2012 has been a little better than 2010. Too much gibberish. Again, the attempts to breakdown Stewart's performance were out of the hope that he was turning things around couple with the horrendous luck he had in April. This was also before we found out his wrist issues were more serious and so there was also the hope that his 2011 was something he could bounce back from. People weren't expecting him to suddenly become amazing; most would be satisfied if he had been offensively similar to 2099-10210 coupled with the improved defense because, again, placeholder.

Meh, I wanted them to keep him all along, so yay!

Lord only knows why Kyle thinks a relatively affordable 1.5-2.0 WAR player at 3B for a season or two would be a bad thing.

Oh yes, I remember this. Ridiculousness at its finest. If you were to ask some peope on this board about a month ago if they'd rather have Castro or Tris Speaker in his prime, they'd pick Castro. Some probably still would. Slow down with those stones, Mr. Glass House.