Sammy Sofa

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.

Colvin got plenty of playing time in 2011; he was horrible. And yes, you were ridiculed because you harp on and on about player history regardless of how many PA it is or whether it was the minors or the majors or which league in the minors it was or what health issues were being dealt with. You're determined to find concrete patterns in select stat lines like some kind of annoying baseball Beautiful Mind and then act like they're a lock that a player will succeed or fail...until it's case like Trumbo, and then it's all out the window. That is why you are ridiculed, coupled with how torturous it is to read your posts. And yes, you want to make time for promising young players. The Cubs have a shortage of such in the OF (and had a lack of players willing to take a pitch), and like it or not you need to at least try to field a team, so signing a guy like Dejesus on the cheap makes perfect sense. He's not blocking anyone. Then Stewart is picked up because they also have a dearth of players at 3B and he's an intriguing reclamation project. That's it. That's as far as it goes. Any positive things said about Stewart have been out of the hope that he'd be able to bounce back and be a serviceable 3B option until a long term option was found. Colvin, as you've said yourself, had no future with the team, so it was a break even trade at worst.

According to Fangraphs, yes (offensively). According to BR, no.

The weird thing is that Neely has been concluding his posts with this thought...after getting worked up during the previous paragraph about Stewart. Yeah, it's strange that most of his posts seem to be agreeing with the general sentiment about this now. He's just still inexplicably hung up on the idea of the mythical Ian Stewart superfan or Colvin not getting patted on the head.

Yes, we're all very well aware of the simplistic way you look at career stats. Shall we go over DeJesus again? Nobody has any problem pointing out Colvin is technically having a better year than Stewart; it just doesn't matter. It's ridiculous to get worked up in any way over the 0.7 WAR player vs. the 0.0 WAR player.

Pretty much my thinking, too; until the deadline passes or Atlanta makes another pitching trade, I'm expecting this to get done.

That was as magnificently stupid as I had hoped for...and more. Bless you, kind sir.

billy would have beat those [expletive] to death with the [expletive] face bat like the bear jew Yes.

I still say this'll turn out OK. Heed my words.

from what i can tell, fredi gonzalez was his manager for 12 starts in 1997-98 and then dempster played on the marlins when gonzalez was the third base coach. that hardly seems like a situation that would lead to them being BFFs. FRIENDSHIP DECLARED INELIGIBLE.

people just don't understand how james loney changed the very essence of who he is He literally shrank a few inches.

I wish the Ted Lilly Fan Club was still up and running.

The [expletive] is that.

Was Fredi with the Marlins when Dempster was?

Yeah, he NEEDS to do that. He owes us.

Totally reasonable.