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name a player with a high ops that doesn't add runs to the scoreboard

as a bengals fan, i say go for it

proof that computer nerds shouldn't run baseball teams

Haha. These people. Anyways, looking at this ESPN article from April this year, it seems like Dukes wasn't a real winner to begin with. He's had troubles in the past. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2823398

haha why do they let me start game threads

l8r

maybe he's injured, wouldn't that be swell

anyone wanna change their answer in the dunn for hill poll?

yay the worst hitter in baseball just hit a homerun in the biggest park in baseball

maybe wayne krivsky secretly runs the cubs

how many homeruns and at bats does each player have? Player A had 643 AB's and Player B 509 There was a HR differential less than 5 Unless I'm reading baseball reference wrong, isn't B's OPS+ 217, not 182? yes, thanks. I looked on the wrong line i got it now. for the record, it's been said a few times on this board that player b was robbed of the mvp that year, and it's an opinion i agree with.

how many homeruns and at bats does each player have?

That's only if you use the old school way of judging production, by R and RBI. R and RBI are team and teammate dependant. They don't show as much of what the player did than as much as what the team is doing. The only thing the player can control is his own production, which is measured much more effectively in AVG/OBP/SGL terms than in counting R and RBI. i guess my definition of "production" and yours are different. To me, it doesn't matter if you're OPS'ing 1.200 if you aren't generating runs (by either scoring them or knocking them in). As I said, the higher OPS player is more likely to create runs in the future, but that wasn't the question of the poll. With the question being "who was the MVP of the first quarter", who would you say was more valuable, a guy who has 40 runs, 50 RBI, and an OPS of .850, or a guy with 20 runs, 25 RBI and an OPS of 1.080 The guy with the 1.080 OPS. The guy with 40 runs and 50 RBI either played in a better lineup, hit in a better spot (say 3rd, rather than 6th), or was very lucky (high AVG with RISP or something). But the guy with the 1.000+ OPS played better that year, which I think is important when you're giving out an award for the guy that played the best. so you'd take an 1.080 OPS guy who isn't actually adding much to the runs on the board over an .800 one who is? This is asninine if i'm building my own team, then YES.

good luck hottie toddy

even when they suck they get lucky. unbelievable.

if this happens i'm going to personally buy him a huge diamond 40/30 necklace that i hope he'd wear all the time

my tradition of short game thread streaks shall continue. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/mlb/448179.jpg 4-3 2.91 ERA vs. http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/mlb/408241.jpg 5-1 1.64 ERA prediction: peavy: 9 ip 4 h 0 er 19 k's 0 bb hill: worse on the plus side, i loooooooooooooove west coast night games, even though i'm probably alone on that one

yay so we got rid of the old manager for someone even dumber

whoa, giambi is 36. i thought he was like 32. nevermind.

trade for him and pray he can handle left field

Yup. Blowout games probably boost that way up. the cubs are 4th in the nl in hitting in close and late games. I'm not sure where you're getting that-they are 10th in the NL in runs scored in close and late, and 8th in OPS. That number has really improved though the last couple of weeks. It seems like that the Cubs either score an insurance run or two, or the bullpen blows the game. The Cubs offense has become pretty good at coming back in games though (Pitsburgh game, Philly Saturday game, Washington Sunday game, last two games all are examples off the top of my head of comebacks in May in the late innings-of course the bullpen gave the Philly game right back). i was looking at batting average

Yup. Blowout games probably boost that way up. the cubs are 4th in the nl in hitting in close and late games.

The problem is not a lack of clutch relief work. The problem is the lineup and starting rotation aren't taking care of business enough on their own, so when the bullpen does falter, as all bullpens do from time to time, it's glaring. Other teams bullpens rarely falter when they face the Cubs. It usually looks like they are trotting Cy Young out there. Look what the Pirates relievers did in the 15 inning game. Pathetic. Agree completely about the lineup being the biggest problem and it has been for a long, long time. and the cubs bullpen stopped the pirates for 5 innings.

so trade one of the top prospects for another outfielder? while it may not be a bad idea, i don't see how it solves all our problems. this team + rocco = still sucks.

was this just an excuse to play hamilton/griffey/dunn in the outfield every day, and have freel move to third?