Derwood
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and i bet if you took a poll of major leaguers, they'd say juan pierre and david eckstein are good baseball players. that's a little unfair
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8/4 Mets(Maine) @ Cubs(Lilly) 2:55 P.M.(CT) FOX
Derwood replied to Skyballer's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
My paper says I'll be getting the Cubs today. color me unconvinced -
let's boil run production down to the individuals here. Taking away any team contributions (ie throwing out most RBI's and runs), you have Sosa, who hit 66 HR and Olerud who hit 29. Thus, assuming no help from their teammates (ie no one on base), Sosa produced 66 runs for his team while Olerud produced 29. A HR is the best possible outcome for any at bat as a) it's never an out and b) it's always a run. in a theoretical, forward looking sense, of course you'd want a guy with a higher OBP/OPS+ on your team (ie Olerud), but we have the actual numbers in front of us for 1998, and it's clear that Sosa was more impactful in scoring runs, which, if I remember correctly, is the point of baseball. i don't think there's a formula out there that would show that swapping out Olerud for Sosa would produce more runs for the team, and if you could, a person is not a formula, and, like it or not, it is a team sport and what your teammates do DOES impact every at-bat you have during a season
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i'd still take Sosa that said, i'd take 2001 Sosa over 1998 Sosa 7 days a week and twice sunday
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an NBA slot-based rookie contract scale would solve these problems
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Hey, I was going for that. :x You can have it. I might just be vance_the_cowboys_fan. how will we know it's you? i'd be so confused ;)
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hope you carry a hand gun
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Agreed. I want some power, dammit. I don't want power, I just want to help. I know the amount of work it takes to keep these boards great. I also know how many hours a week I spend at NSBB. I'm also the admin on one message board and a moderator on another. That's scary. J/K I couldn't resist ;) no problem. on message boards, I act like a moderator when I'm a moderator, and don't when I don't.
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Agreed. I want some power, dammit. I don't want power, I just want to help. I know the amount of work it takes to keep these boards great. I also know how many hours a week I spend at NSBB. I'm also the admin on one message board and a moderator on another.
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with the current NSBB mods having enough to do here, I propose you take applications from some of the rest of us to be mods on the two new boards.
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Olerud had a higher RC/27. formula please are you suggesting that if you replaced Sosa with Olerud on the 98 Cubs that the team would have scored more runs?
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i'm trying to temper my enthusiasm for this season by remembering that the Eagles, Steelers and Bengals games will preempt most Bears games in my region this fall
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here's hoping Penn State's starting Safety is on the field and not in a court room come September
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Z/Barrett fight:Cubs turn around :: Bartman:Cubs lose NLCS
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fixed
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the stats, obviously, are not mutually exclusive, but you'd prefer the guy who can get on base in ways OTHER than slugging if given the choice. In other words, a guy like Aramis Ramirez is getting on base mostly by slugging (as his .039 IsoD suggests), while someone with a high OBP is getting on base in many more ways that said, I don't know how you could say you would take a 1998 John Olerud over a 1998 Sammy Sosa knowing how their years turned out. You could say "I would prefer a guy with a .447 OBP over one with a .377 OBP in the future", but to say you would want someone whose slightly lower OPS+ resulted in far fewer runs is a little preposterous.
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dude, DePaul has the homliest co-eds on the planet. at least they did when I was there. rough
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shocker
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What is the Cubs overall W/L record?
Derwood replied to badger1679666666's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
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Matt Morris to the Pirates
Derwood replied to Laura's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
you are giving Littlefield WAY too much credit -
Still hoping Morelli can pull a "1994 Kerry Collins Turnaround Special" this year
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it also had murton striking out swinging, then it was a foul, then it was a single, then finally he was on 2nd
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phillies playing with fire.
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alright, i just kicked a "walk off" FG in OT in Madden, time for the Cubs to do the same
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according to gameday, that was a 4 pitch walk
