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That's been my take on things. His swing adjustment seems to be driving his current level of performance more than good luck or simply just a hot streak. Is he also getting lucky with more than the usual amounts of balls in play dropping for hits? Yes. But also, no one believes that he is likely to keep up the pace he has been at in August. But his BABIP wasn't that out of line in July, at least not for a guy making up for some bad luck earlier in the season. I think the statistical and anecdotal evidence clearly shows a high likelihood of Harvey having turned a pretty big corner with this swing adjustment. Does he have further to go? Of course. But luckily, he is still rather young. So far in August, he has struck out 17 times and walked 6 times with 1 HBP in 82 ABs. That's not great, but it is better than any other month this year. Now he just has to continue improving... Hell, at this rate I'd take 6 walks every 80 at bats. Especially if they can get him to play CF in the majors.
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He was comparing rookies with comparable statistics, I doubt he threw a bunch of pitchers into the white group, skewing all the numbers.
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Ok, we're going to go down to Raw, and then you guys send me your teams. ill upload them and then you can screw around on waiver pickups until the season starts
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jay feely
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2006 NSBB Minor League Player of the Year
imb replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
1. Gallagher 1a. Veal (I voted Gallagher due to my adherence to the alphabetical order.) 2. Pie 3. Who cares -
I heard that Isiah Thomas was interested.
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I agree. Not getting out is waaaay lame. Yeah man. Every fantasy league I've ever played in has obp as a stat. Oh wait, no league I've ever played in has that as a stat. Never mind. A bunch nerds like the fantasy geeks you talked about use computers to research crap like medicine, science, and technology. I don't have a lot of use for that stuff. If I get constant headaches, I'm not gonna go get a "CT Scan." If I have horrible vision, I'm not going to get "laser surgery." Basically, everything that I need to know, I learned when I was 6. Everything else is frivolous gobbily-[expletive] that can't in any way educate me further on a subject I'm interested or teach me anything of value that would help me along in life. Critical thinking is almost as lame as not getting out in baseball. Almost. Come on, wolf. You know that that's way out of line. I want to reiterate Cuse's post, there has been a lot of border-line stuff. This is a nice, interesting thread. Please stick to the rules, folks. Not a single thing in that post is anywhere near as inflammatory as "stat geek" and "fantasy baseball nerds" that a certain minor league announcer has used.
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Free Agent Pitchers
imb replied to questionmarkgrace's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Is this sarcastic? If Bronson can do it, anyone can! -
How in the world can people that get paid to analyze baseball be so completely wrong in how they view and judge it? It's mind-boggling to me.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-20-2006
imb replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
Man, if Veal and Gallagher both make it to the majors as productive starters, what a coup that would be. -
What was a joke?
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Well, then he's confused, or the Cards have hired mongoloids in their "stat geek" department.
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Not one "stat geek" would honestly say that Neifi Perez is better than Derek Jeter. No one thinks that, on either side of the fence. You're either confused or making it up.
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No, those are the stat geeks that have said that "Neifi Perez is the worst player in major league history". You don't even know what you're arguing. "Don't know what goes into their numbers"? You're just making up nonsense.
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Free Agent Pitchers
imb replied to questionmarkgrace's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Dude, just target cheap, decent AL starters. Bring them to the NL and watch them dominate. I'm certain that Meche would be great in the NL Central. -
No, the contract is assigned to the claiming team in a waiver deal. Really? I thought that was only if he were picked up off waivers? This was a trade. Neifi passed through waivers and was traded.
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Are we paying any of his salary? If not, score. If so...score.
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The problem I have is that you are doing that exact same thing. Only not with stats. You don't like sabrmetrics because they "can make a bad player look good"? You're trying to make Cesar Izturis sound like a decent player because of his defense, which, while admittedly good is only what, ten percent of the game? 20 percent? Whatever it is, it's not enough to make him a valuable player. In the end you're doing the exact thing you're railing against, using conventional baseball wisdom (instead of statistical analysis) to make a bad player look good. Studying and using stats don't make bad players look good, it exposes bad players.
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How can Ou still be ranked that high? Bad ass defense, best running back in the nation and a stable of talented receivers? Look, Bomar had talent, and surely would have had a nice season, but last year he only tossed 10 TDs to go with his 10 picks. And we still beat Oregon in the Holiday bowl, and without that phantom loss in Texas Tech, we would have been 9-3. All that with the toughest schedule in the nation. If it were up to me, OU would be between 15-20 in the polls, but you know how pollsters do. There isn't a legit number one team in the nation at this stage of the year, so the polls are going to be kind of wonky for awhile.
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2.1 Million dollars for a 16 year old prospect (SF Giants)
imb replied to questionmarkgrace's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
16, 6'2 200? yamahama -
You lost me. It's only important for the leadoff guy to get on base. Oddly enough, OBP isn't even a fantasy baseball category. "Basically, everything you know about baseball when you are fourteen years old, you know from baseball announcers. Here was this guy [bill James] who was telling me that at least eighty percent of what baseball announcers told me was complete bull(edit), and then explained very convincingly why it was." - Voros McCracken.
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Should we draft up to the top again and then go to waivers? Or do you guys want to go back up to the top, down to Raw and then go to waivers?
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You lost me.
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I think it was explained quite well already -- ARod was the superior player at that position. Pretty simple, actually. If you think the hatred for aRod is bad now, imagine if he had taken Jeter's position. If I'm the Yankees or a Yankee fan, I don't care if people hate one of my players. I only care for what makes my team better, and Rodriguez playing SS is that. Is that even true anymore?
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big murt
