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you say "alternative idea of kris bryant's future" as if you actually presented an idea about kris bryant's future. saying "he's going to be 24 next year" isn't an idea, it's a fact stated as if there is an underlying idea motivating its expression. it's a careful distinction you refuse to acknowledge, not because you aren't interested in explaining yourself, but because doing so would imply a level of accountability you're clearly uncomfortable with and to be perfectly clear, i've never asked, nor do i want any kind of explanation from you about aging curves. the only thing i've really ever asked of you is to support your statements with some sort of reference/citation/whatever. i've done that because i've gone down the player age rabbit hole myself a few times and have consumed anything i can get my hands on, so when you make a statements like the ones you've made recently, and they don't really jive with my comprehension of the literature, perhaps it's because i missed something. or perhaps i haven't, and that's a risk you're unwilling to take. that's fine. but just know i want you to explain baseball to me like a want a punch in the dick as an aside, it's interesting that you think that i think that you're awful. i don't. not enough information to make that judgement, if i was even inclined to make it. it's your posts on this subject that i think are awful

oh, we're hugging now?

not the important part though

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you mean the team that beat the best team in the nba twice in the final, with zero irving? this is not a solid argument

i thought this was going to be about chris sale pitching in a vintage baseball league and now i'm very disappointed

I believe that you believe that. Not to your credit, but can't be helped. i think your hamfisted snipe at my cognitive capacity is a flimsy attempt to distract from your intellectual cowardice that said, i don't disagree with your "prediction" of bryant's performance. it's something like a 10% chance he becomes that next tier of player. however, i do disagree with your stated reasoning. his performance delta over the next 4-5 years has little to do with age; that he will be 24 next season tells us basically nothing. it is what he needs to improve that is the reason we should expect only slight improvement in offensive value

it always seemed like q didn't really trust leddy enough to allow the team to derive maximum value from his play

it's also the most Kyle Prediction possible. I could have predicted that his BaBip regresses to the .310s, his defense stiffens up, and the book on his swing holes gets better and he becomes a league average player. please hammer, don't hurt him! and it still would have been you straight up guessing while attempting to pass it off as a data-driven prediction. literally zero people care what you pretend to know; it's the charade of it all that has me engaged

the proximity effect

the return is decent, and a whole lot better than nothing. sucks to lose him but as has been mentioned, we've let go of better and we're trading from a position of strength. have fun in columbus with your millions of dollars fool!

man ssr got the mojo

it's the safest possible prediction

what the hell

he did [tweet] [/tweet] no general interest, only appeals to a few select individuals, guess it's a niese market normally i wouldn't laugh but i let my syndergaard down

hey hey no need to get emotional. after all, it's not like i'm asking you to cite an article 's comments section you aped your unsupportable "insights" from

we're already dead

what i believe is that you're just making this up as you go. if the age curve is flatter, why don't we see the volatility you describe in older pitchers, say age 30+?

That's surprising; I would have figured you had read somewhere that aging curve for starting pitchers ended at, like, 22. Pitchers don't have much of a curve. They just are who they are until they change spontaneously or their arm blows up. i wouldn't have a problem with this being so utterly wrong if it wasn't stated so confidently as if it originated from a legitimate authority on the subject

for me it's 100% that he's not max scherzer

And I'm saying that is overstating it. The reasons to think he might not are just as strong. SS defense declines early, and his bat has been down as often as not post-2012. so you're saying it could go either way. awful also, last i read, ss defense peaks between 26 and 28. given that starlin castro is 25, i'm going to need some evidence to the contrary in order to consider defense age curves relevant to this discussion about castro's potential performance over the next four months

mojo is in heat

i'm disappointed with the knowledge that castro will never be what we once hoped he would turn out to be (i distinctly remember tim bursting this bubble for me), but the dumpster fire histrionics over what is essentially league average play is beyond stupid and pointless. there is literally nothing interesting to talk about with castro at this point

pff

How is there a clear winner with shootouts? because one team wins and the other team loses By not playing hockey? define "hockey"