JudasIscariotTheBird
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2015 Spring Training Game Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
All of those HRs were amazing in their own way, but when Bryant seemingly takes a measured swing and DESTROYS the ball to the opposite field...that's Sosa-esque right there. =P~ -
And thanks to that link, I now can't be sure if Wellington Castillo is worse at catching than I thought he was, or just a bigot: http://www.outsports.com/2015/3/5/8159353/dale-scott-injured-cubs-giants
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2015 Spring Training Game Thread
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Just fired up the radio feed and this is approximately what I hear: "Shifts are something that has not been traditional over the years...all this stuff with sabermetrics and graphs and stuff, the giants are one of the teams that apply it the LEAST" Glad we are winning. -
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I'm a Solar fan myself, but I think it is going to be more of a slow burn rather than bursting into industry. Higher oil prices will help.
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Arrieta finishes 2nd in the Cy Young award voting. Fowler leads the NL in runs scored.
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I went and checked out David's link, but I didn't see any mention of the effect of double switches. We can all agree that in most cases you want your worst hitter batting 9th (unless you really buy into the good-hitter cluster idea...but that all depends on the difference in quality of the hitters, I believe), and I could see how the effect of pinch hitting an actual hitter sooner would be a benefit, but having the pitcher in the 9th spot gives you the benefit of being able to have your starting pitcher go longer into games if you'd like (not having to pinch hit for him as soon). I would also think that some benefit of the pinch hitter batting sooner would be negated by how often double switches would happen. Your pitcher is going to be inserted into a near-random part of the line up, anyhow. ...although I suppose that is a similar effect as just pinch-hitting...whatever, I'm not going to bother thinking about it anymore since it all adds up to a lot of nothing.
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plzplzplzplzplz Unless that pitcher happens to be Travis Wood, why would this be a thing we would want to have happen? Because the pitcher usually only bats twice (three times if you're lucky and he and/or the offense is doing well), after which point you're probably going to have hitters available to use in the 8th spot that are better than whoever your worst hitter in the lineup that day is. I would guess that with how often double switches happen, and how it will force you to use a man more often, this would not be enough to make up for having the pitcher batting 8th (unless he hits better than Ross or something.)
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plzplzplzplzplz Unless that pitcher happens to be Travis Wood, why would this be a thing we would want to have happen?
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...despite his high OBP, especially for his position. This caused me to ask myself who the opposite of Dusty Baker would be? Yes, because his career BB% is still 5.2%. Meaning his OBP is almost entirely dependent on a high BABIP. Like I said, if he maintains his significant jump in career high LD% and HR/FB% from 2014 because he turned some corner in development, great. If it turns out he was just having a one off really good year hitting the baseball, he's going not going to help the team in OBP in 2015. If you are going to be concerned with one-off years, 2013, at age 23, is the example. (.290 BABIP, .284 OBP). The rest of his career has been amazingly consistent in both arenas. Any player can suddenly have a stinker of a BABIP in any given season, but Castro has established his in over 3000 PA to be .325 to go with a .325 OBP. He is good at getting on base. I also don't think it is unreasonable to observe or expect increases in LD% or HR/FB% as he starts to enter his late 20s. He also had a career high in walk rate last year...
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...despite his high OBP, especially for his position. This caused me to ask myself who the opposite of Dusty Baker would be? Yes, because his career BB% is still 5.2%. Meaning his OBP is almost entirely dependent on a high BABIP. Like I said, if he maintains his significant jump in career high LD% and HR/FB% from 2014 because he turned some corner in development, great. If it turns out he was just having a one off really good year hitting the baseball, he's going not going to help the team in OBP in 2015. If you are going to be concerned with one-off years, 2013, at age 23, is the example. (.290 BABIP, .284 OBP). The rest of his career has been amazingly consistent in both arenas. Any player can suddenly have a stinker of a BABIP in any given season, but Castro has established his in over 3000 PA to be .325 to go with a .325 OBP. He is good at getting on base.
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...despite his high OBP, especially for his position. This caused me to ask myself who the opposite of Dusty Baker would be?
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Him working out at 3B would be the ideal, but my biggest concern is long term health. Seems like a tall guy diving around at 3B would invite back problems.
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https://twitter.com/jkmumford/status/557214670520852480/photo/1
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says there right in the link that phil rogers is involved, so that would explain why it has not been posted or talked about anywhere. I don't normally read a lot of sports writers or bother to memorize their names...so he never has any idea what he's talking about? The Luis Valbuena era...I'm still upset about it.
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I haven't seen this article posted or talked about anywhere. The title was preposterous enough for me to click on it, so I had a heads up that some non-sense was coming, but it still prompted me to shout, out loud "what the f---?!" Merry Christmas, everyone (especially Luis Valbuena). http://m.cubs.mlb.com/news/article/104808518/phil-rogers-cubs-shouldnt-wait-to-promote-kris-bryant-to-majors
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http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/achewood_789.jpg
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At least from now on, whenever I see some replay of the Bartman thing, I'm going to hear "People train runs outta...(snort)...Stubbville" in my head. Thanks NSBB!
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I've heard that both Stanton and Harper are old souls.
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It seems like two weeks ago that I was trying to pump myself up about a full year of Coughlan and Wada, and now we are talking about Cargo in addition to everything that just happened the last two days. SO sick.
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I'll go with the obvious http://www.judao.com.br/8/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gob-final-countdown.gif
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Are you calling bleacher bums sodomites?
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Any DraftKings players?
JudasIscariotTheBird replied to JudasIscariotTheBird's topic in Fantasy Sports
I would steer you toward Delanie Walker or Niles Paul at TE. Maybe Donnell if you have some more cash to burn. I do like either Beckham or Stills at WR though. With the price difference, I don't see why you would take Gronk over Graham.
