Mephistopheles

Let's be fair, at least they didn't openly campaign to be a mod, become one, and go on countless power trips because they don't like some topic, someone or something. Well at least not yet on the latter half. We had better watch out for Vancey.

Irrelevant.

I wish I could block mods. I can't stand two of them and they were on my ignore list. I'll hold my tongue but they know who they are.

terrible argument. its not as if players went from weak power hitters to good ones in the thirties and twenties.

Major-league roster rules made that inevitable. It was now or March. This simply isn't true.

it would be the most-likely explanation given his arm slot mechanics and repertoire.

just because other people do it, it doesnt make it right. millions of people have bought linkin park albums.

Apparently Rich Hill had a lower back injury all of 2008 and that was zapping his command as he over-compensated. If true, then we got ripped off.

there's little doubt that rhee would have been a first rounder. his three pitch mix is desirable from a HS prospect, even if they're not solid pitches yet. his changeup is/was major league ready. then he got hurt.

So ARod is example A that steroids really don't matter when youre great.

Kiffin pretended to be Nu’Keese while texting http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/insidepreps/entries/2009/02/05/kiffin_pretende.html

Actually it's about .8 last year. It's about .5 a typical year.

Anyways, in reality last year LHB vs LHPs had a OPS of like 699 and LHBs vs RHPs had an OPS of about 777. No one is saying there isn't a split. What we're saying is that wasting a roster spot (or two) on LOOGYs isn't worth it. Sure they're good at getting lefties out, but they suck at getting righties out, which means we burn through our pen a lot quicker and if is a righty sandwiched in between lefties and we leave the LOOGY in against the righty, he's cooked as they suck at getting righties out.

Only back to 2000 I guess. KW's TJ isn't there.

i think ryne sandberg will get the job, unfortunately.

More deep thoughts from this absolute joke of a human being. I love that you feel the need to gloss yourself in your sig. That tells me everything I need to know about you. But you're no Mozart, or Salieri. You're a petulant five-year old banging out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Grow up, you nobody. You're an insult to all Texans. Get the **** out of my state! Seriously, what's with the personal attacks? I made a pretty tame post towards you (for me) and you go off on me because of what? Did I date your sister and jilt her after awhile or something? Read my response again: it won't overcome an offday pitching, but sometimes it will overcome an average day pitching and make it a good day production wise. to think it is irrelevant is to be stupid. I answered the reason that you were wrong explicitly. I didn't say you were stupid, I said if someone thinks we should throw hitting for pitchers out, they're stupid. You just said you didn't think you were right. And what type of person is that? The typical dumbass on the internets who doesn't know anything but likes to just piss people off? I can see how someone who just got here can reach that conclusion, but I do know a lot. Even people here who hate everything I stand for and hate me to death would admit that, even if they say otherwise. At the end of the day, I know what I'm talking about. Especially, when it comes to anything statistical. I simply don't have the time to make lengthy posts like I used to. Some of my older stuff when I had the time can be found on blogs and way back here I guess. Just because I know a ton about sabermetrics it doesn't mean I slam them down peoples faces non-stop in every argument. In fact I would say that half the arguments (or "nice" discussions) I get into are me taking the side against the person posting the saber-stats saying why whatever they're doing is wrong and doesn't fit the situation. I, unlike 95% of the people who use sabermetrics, know where the holes are and their limitations. Most people don't. I can also say for 100% certainty that only a handful of people in the world know more about BPs stats than I do, and they're pretty much all working for BP and some of the people at BP still don't know as much as I do. I certainly know more than most here about them. That's a given. But sure, if you want guidance, fine. I've always been pretty open to sharing my knowledge if asked.

Don't care.

you're losing bad. You're right and we should all bow down to IMB!.

Sure it is. Tree's Point: UZR and other fielding stats are uselss. Meph's Argument: Two things cause defensive stats to suck: 1. Year to year they're unstable and worthless. Being good or bad seems to have very little effect on if you will be good or bad the next year. Meaning IF they're accurate, they're useless as an indicator of future defensive value. We're better off ballparking it through a combination of scouts eye and a couple things here and there. Trying to nail down the value with an "exact" number is futile at this stage. 2. Each defensive stat, while based on similar methodology often come to drastically different results quite often. It's fairly common for a player to be -10 in one, and +10 in another, or -20 in one and 0 in another. This is akin to OPS placing a hitter as an average average, say OPS around 750, and then another metric, say EqA putting him as one of the top ten hitters in the league, around .310. The combination of #1 and #2 makes Tree right.

You're right and we should all bow down to IMB!.

Sure it is.

which is still lower than the percentage of posts imb! uses to attack meph

http://web.mit.edu/anime/www/images/AMG-cheerleaders.jpg Ski's biggest dichotomy. For the record, don't google image "anime cheerleaders" with the search filter off. seriously. i learned from my mistakes the hard way.

That's not exactly true. Only 20% of a players UZR is based off of his UZR in previous years. That coupled with the fact that other defensive stats with similar methodology can often differ by 20 runs or more and you've got a grab-bag of stats that you shouldn't put hardly any stock into. Tree's right. It's much more magic rock than measuring tape.

Arent a lot of the old threads deleted?