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  1. Clem Fandango
    Didn't know where else to ask this. This might be a bit of an inconvenient request, but can somebody make (or if it's already made somewhere even better) a documented list of each league and how the league tends to favor hitters or batters? For example (these are just arbitrary): Southern League - Hitters International League - Neutral PCL - Hitters etc. etc. Is that a thing anywhere? I thought it would be nice to have a documented reference sheet to know park factors for each league so those who do not know the minors like the back of their hands can look at numbers and assume they are being inflated or deflated by said park factors. That way people don't say "Player A has a .950 OPS out of nowhere, he's really breaking out!" while those who know recognize that he's putting those numbers up in an extreme hitters league and know those numbers are to be taken with a grain of salt. Does that make sense? I think that would be useful. I recognize that this already exists for singular parks factors, as do others, but I haven't been able to track down a generalized chart. If it exists already that's great, but I can't find it.
  2. Clem Fandango
    I remember when he was sort of a "thing" when he had his breakout year in 2009. No clue what happened to his power. Is the California League a notorious hitters environment?
  3. Clem Fandango
    Let's not get ahead of ourselves, ESPN... http://i.imgur.com/TYpW4UD.png
  4. Clem Fandango
    FWIW, Bleacher Report put out a revised Top Farm System rankings and had the Cubs listed #2 overall behind the Twins... http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1723741-re-ranking-all-30-mlb-farm-systems-post-trade-deadline/page/30
  5. Clem Fandango
    This all stemmed from a squeeze bunt? WTF?
  6. Clem Fandango
    Why? The Law of Averages?
  7. Clem Fandango
    Ha! I didn't know Wayne Randazzo was in the Cubs organization. I knew him briefly from his days as the Bay Bears broadcaster. He's a huge Cubs fan so it's fitting he's in the organization. Ironically, about half of the office staff for the Bay Bears were all die-hard Cubs fans.
  8. Clem Fandango
    Also thought this was a little funny. For the last two years Jeremy Hellickson has enjoy some good luck and good defense, giving him above average marks at ERA, but his FIP and xFIP have been pretty terrible and everyone sort of expected him to fall back to Earth and be pretty ordinary at some point. He has a 4.60 ERA this year, whcih seems that his FIP and xFIP have finally caught up with him, here's the somewhat humorous part, though: 2011: 2.95 ERA / 4.44 FIP / 4.72 xFIP 2012: 3.10 ERA / 4.60 FIP / 4.44 xFIP 2013: 4.60 ERA / 3.90 FIP / 3.87 xFIP Basically his ERA and FIP's flipped. He has put up a 1.7 fWAR this season as a result. He had a 0.9 fWAR in 2012 and a 1.7 fWAR in 2011. So despite having an ERA that looks pedestrian and below average, he's on pace to have his most valuable season thus far as a pitcher.
  9. Clem Fandango
    Apparently a) Henry Blanco is still playing baseball at age 41 b) He's on the Mariners c) He just hit his 2nd home run as a Mariner in 15 games played d) Both home runs were grand slams
  10. Clem Fandango
    http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=29311479&topic_id=10025018 Boss
  11. Clem Fandango
    You can't even post a damn logo on a website without express written consent of major league baseball?
  12. Clem Fandango
    I remember hanging out at someones house and there happened to be another Cubs fan there who said "So what do you think about the Cubs getting Nomar?" and I said "What the hell are you talking about?" at which point I was filled in. This was pretty much my reaction: http://i.imgur.com/Aouil.gif
  13. Clem Fandango
    No one's gonna jump on this? Also, why would the Cardinals have an interest in Navarro? Molina on the DL. But no deal. According to multiple reports, STL wouldn't meet the Cubs' asking price. Ahh, had no idea Molina was on the DL. I was secretly hoping for an unexpected Biogenesis suspension :)
  14. Clem Fandango
    No one's gonna jump on this? Also, why would the Cardinals have an interest in Navarro?
  15. Clem Fandango
    Apparently some Braves friends of mine on Facebook have an anti-answer to the Killer B's... The Screw U's (Upton, Upton, Uggla). Braves fans are not happy with their siblings. Or Dan Uggla.
  16. Clem Fandango
    lolwut
  17. Clem Fandango
    God, just shut the [expletive] up already. http://i.imgur.com/5v3eRz2.jpg
  18. Clem Fandango
    Also he's a massive chunk beast
  19. Clem Fandango
    http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/07/padres-focused-on-trading-relievers.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook Cubs sure could use a nice reliever
  20. Clem Fandango
    Do Segura and Marte qualify? Marte played in 47 games and had 182 PA's last year and Segura played in 45 games and had 166 PA's last year. No. 130 AB's is the cutoff for rookie status, so neither are rookies
  21. Clem Fandango
    Starling Marte is not a rookie, fwiw.
  22. Clem Fandango
    If the Cubs agreed with that evaluation of his ceiling, they would have taken the rumored AA reliever. Whitley, I think it was? Plus, most are saying his change is a plus pitch. I'm guessing the Cubs either disagree with that evaluation or still prefer Black to other options. It sounds like Parks was just stating what he knew of him personally form seeing him pitch, and it sounds like he's inferring he hasn't seen a lot of him so he's just going off of what he knows.
  23. Clem Fandango
    You got it... Chris Shelton. His final line that year ended up being 115 G .273/.340/.466/.806 with 16 HR and 47 RBI... which means after hitting 9 home runs in his first 13 games, he ended up hitting only 7 more over the next 102 games. After his 13th game he averaged one home run every 14.5 games. That gave him an HR/AB ratio of 46.
  24. Clem Fandango
    You should take a glance at Steve Clevenger's game log from last year. Or Bryan LaHair's. Anyone remotely capable of being a major leaguer can have a 6 game stretch like this. It's awesome, exciting, and fun to watch, but it doesn't tell us anything about what will happen with that player in the future. my favorite crappy player with an amazing stretch has to be neifi perez's late 2004 and first couple months of 2005 Spoeaking of hot starts... let's see if anyone can guess this batting line to open a season... 13G 24H 51AB 9HR 17RBI .471/.500/1.216/1.716
  25. Clem Fandango
    Some of the tags look right. He must be disabling BBCode for some reason. He doesn't use BBCode because... he lost a family member to BBCode once.
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