Sammy Sofa

How in the world is trading Noah or Deng "blowing up" the team? I said that the team will be blown up + one of deng/noah would go. Looking at the trade scenarios, we'd have to part with 3-4 guys at least. That's not blowing up the team.

Why/how in the world would you want or expect them to "blow up" a team this deep?

How in the world is trading Noah or Deng "blowing up" the team?

Thanks, NCCF.

Because he wants some vets to get as more AB's before pulling them from the game. in other words: IT'S SPRING [expletive] TRAINING.

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Yeah, he's here to stay until he fucks up/the team keeps tanking. If they wanting to keep the meatballs happy they would have just hired Sandberg.

This statement contains near-lethal levels of of grit and hustle. His name is too ambiguously ethnic.

Or when they boil to death in minutes because of the sun because that's how fish tanks work.

LULZ at "Sorry-ano" (minus the hyphen) filtered to "Soriano."

Soriano LEEDING OFF?!!?!?!?11 ONLY THE COBZ, NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!1111

Did you know that LaHair is french for "the hair?"

Interesting. Thanks.

You can't really expect WSR to read everything he posts.

WICKED SICK BURN.

I don't think catchers "vary so significantly defensively". Absent any reason to believe otherwise, I suspect they probably vary about as much as any other position. The reason is because of the weight placed on the defensive ability of catchers. You see teams getting away with crappy fielders in other positions because that's where you end up with more offensive assets. Where are the Alfonso Sorianos and Ryan Brauns and Adam Dunns and Prince Fielders of the catching world? There's much less variation than the other positions. That doesn't mean all catchers are practically the same defensively, but it's unusual to find the scope of variation between catchers as you do between different infielders or outfielders. As an example, and this may not be a perfect comparison, but I'll throw it out anyway. Mike Piazza was the biggest disaster I can remember, defensively, from a catcher and he was light years ahead of, relatively speaking, a bad LF/1B/3B etc. People were willing to deal with his bad defense because he was probably the best hitting catcher ever. He was much better at his position than the LF version of Adam Dunn or 2B version of Alfonso Soriano were in relation to average or above average defenders were at their positions. When Mike Piazza's defense is an extreme outlier, that shows the difference between catchers defense and every other position. Good point.

I don't think catchers "vary so significantly defensively". Absent any reason to believe otherwise, I suspect they probably vary about as much as any other position. The other guy was the one taking the rather confusing (to me at least) position that there is almost no variation amongst catchers, and significantly less than at other positions. That's not really what he said. He said the difference between an average catcher and an elite catcher is probably not as large (or impactful) as the difference between an average CF and an elite CF. I tend to agree. Right. Same here.

I don't think catchers "vary so significantly defensively". Absent any reason to believe otherwise, I suspect they probably vary about as much as any other position. The reason is because of the weight placed on the defensive ability of catchers. You see teams getting away with crappy fielders in other positions because that's where you end up with more offensive assets. Where are the Alfonso Sorianos and Ryan Brauns and Adam Dunns and Prince Fielders of the catching world? There's much less variation than the other positions. That doesn't mean all catchers are practically the same defensively, but it's unusual to find the scope of variation between catchers as you do between different infielders or outfielders.

I'm just wondering why you think so many catchers vary so significantly defensively. I'm trying to understand your approach here; who are a couple of players you could give as examples of starting catchers that represent the opposite ends of this spectrum and best illustrate the disparity you're talking about?

Why? Because there's nothing inherent about that position to suggest the talent range is significantly narrower than it is at other spots. How are you coming to this conclusion?

Why?

Oh, that jerk and his dastardly smiling.

I see what you did there.

I don't think that it means that there will be less sellers, but certainly more buyers. It's a zero-sum game. 30 teams total. If there are more buyers, then by definition there are fewer sellers. (Unless you think there's a third, "none of the above" category.) There is. ERRORERRORERRORERROR