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  1. Derwood
    it's funny how guys like this just keep hanging around. At the Blue Jays/Red Sox spring training game yesterday, the Sox sent Kerry Robinson out to play CF. It took me a minute to figure out he used to start for the Cardinals.
  2. Derwood
    i think A-Rod has made Boras enough money that Rodriguez can tell him where to stick it. And I also think that A-Rod is a caliber of player that the team would just find the money to pay. If you were the front office, would you ever say "Sorry, A-Rod just doesn't fit in our budget"?
  3. Derwood
    As I stated in the Murray Chass thread, I'd bet that many, many casual baseball fans couldn't tell you how to calculate batting average or ERA, much less sabermetric numbers. I'm not suggesting we dumb down the game for these people, but introducing new stats to them is going to be difficult.
  4. Derwood
    hmmmm, that response from the HoF got me thinking. Perhaps there should be a measure added that says "if a player get at least X votes over their 15 years of BBWAA eligibility, they will be elected." In other words, you need 75% in any one year, but if you get a cumulative # of votes over the entire eligibility time, you get in. Thoughts?
  5. Derwood
    I went to the Boston/Toronto game yesterday but have no means of uploading my pics right now. I'll post them when I get back. Unfortunately, it was a split squad for Boston, so the only "starter" quality guys they had were Wily Mo Pena and Eric Hinske. Ortiz, Varitek, Ramirez, Drew, Youkalis were all at the other game. Toronto started Wells, Rios and Overbay though, with Halladay getting the start. BTW, Eric Hinske's wife has the biggest boobs I've ever seen. My brother-in-law is handicapped, so we entered the ballpark through a special entrance (also used by the player wives). The woman looked like she was smuggling basketballs into the stadium.
  6. Derwood
    i think the Carr/Plummer/Garcia carousel is potentially the most interesting thing to watch early.
  7. Derwood
    I put most of my value in Win-Loss records for pitchers and Gold Gloves for fielders
  8. Derwood
    FWIW, Extra Innings automatically renews each year too and you have to cancel it manually
  9. Derwood
    Exactly. QB rating is a really good example. I'd say that almost no football fans know how it's calculated but they do understand how to use it and what it signifies. OPS+ and ERA+ are also good examples. I'm not exactly sure how they go about adjusting it but I understand that it takes into account league and park effects and is a better tool to compare players. A commentator wouldn't need to explain how OPS+ or ERA+ is calculated they would just have to explain what it means. I think these two stats are something the casual fan would understand the importance of quite easily. It's intuitive. It's also easy to understand what is good what is bad with the average being 100. I would bet that a lot of baseball fans couldn't tell you how batting average or ERA are calculated either
  10. Derwood
    Actually, Jeter was an MVP caliber player last year. He was in the conversation, but certainly not the best player. The bigger point is that some of these writers (particularly in New York) choose to ignore even the most basic statistics if it hurts their argument. Big example being "A-Rod sucks in the playoffs", which is true the last 2 years, but his career post season numbers are very good. At this point, I would take people using OPS in general conversation and be fine with it. Frankly, when analyzing just your own team (which is what most play by play/color guys do day to day) stats like EqAvg and VORP are less useful. Those stats are better served when comparing players across the league, or figuring out who to trade for/sign in the off season.
  11. Derwood
    an article I read this morning said that the current Veteran's Comittee setup was put in place after cronyism got guys like Mazeroski in. Now the Chairman of the HoF feels that this model isn't working either (duh) and will bring it up at their annual meeting on March 13
  12. Derwood
    i'll wait for Laura's predictions contest in March
  13. Derwood
    guys like Chass hate "new stats" because these stats prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the players that writers like him esteem (Eckstein, Jeter, Erstad) are, in fact, crap, while players they like to rail on (A-Rod) are miles better in every way. Okay, Jeter isn't crap, but isn't an MVP caliber player
  14. Derwood
    You can in IE, but not Firefox. which is weird, as you can click on the emoticons in firefox when you're not in Premium
  15. Derwood
    40 reps? are you sure? that's more than most linemen.... 27 reps at 225 reading is hard
  16. Derwood
    40 reps? are you sure? that's more than most linemen....
  17. Derwood
    Looks slightly cross-eyed. looks like Mick Foley's cousin
  18. Derwood
    but paid 10 others not to
  19. Derwood
    i generally write pretty well the first time. on message boards, i don't usually bother with capitalization or whatnot, and firefox 2.0 does the "red underline" on misspelled words, so that helps.
  20. Derwood
    not cowher, since he's going to coach Penn State when JoePa retires. Right? Anyone?
  21. Derwood
    I didn't see this and hope I can avoid seeing it for the duration of my life. ditto the Wisconsin dude's dislocated elbow. I'm glad I missed that one
  22. Derwood
    i voted for the chick, though it would be better if it were in slow motion like jeff
  23. Derwood
    though the public barely has him over the 75% as well
  24. Derwood
    my original theory that Santo will get in posthumously still stands
  25. Derwood
    well if you don't buy the reason that multiple people have cited (that he wasn't well liked in his playing days) then I don't know what to tell you
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