Transmogrified Tiger

Extensions, including adblock, are coming to chrome. In the interim, I had found something when I was using chrome to combat this. Essentially you added/replaced a file in windows and it automatically blacklisted everything coming from a site on a list of ad sites. It was pretty comprehensive, I never saw ads just like in adblock, although the space they would've occupied was there. It was called a page file or something like that. I wish I could find it again since I've switched computers since I first did it.

Minnesota beat #9 Louisville to go to 10-0. Belmont is beating Tennessee in Knoxville in the second half. Duke thumped Xavier at Cameron. Too bad, Xavier winning would've been real nice for the RPI, but I think they were a bit overrated in the polls.

And we were like -15 defensively from that position.

PMR has McLouth easily below average defensively the last three years, and UZR has him as a very poor CF and a horrendous RF(in a small sample).

Shortening your swing doesn't necessarily lead to better production. You sacrifice walks, strikeouts, and extra base hits for singles and groundouts and popouts.

Lee? Fukudome and Zambrano to a lesser extent?

Being lucky and overachieving are two different things. Our record matched our performance, so we weren't lucky, but our performance from some players isn't likely to continue, so going forward the expectations have to be lower. Personally, depending on what we do in RF I don't think we are closer to 10 wins worse than the same as last year, but I agree with the sentiment about our competitors. The Brewers look markedly worse, the Pirates are awful, the Reds are in limbo, and I don't think the Cardinals are better than last year(at this point), meaning we should be pretty clear favorites.

3 posts without a "what's the NL Central gonna do" reference is too many.

That would be very very nice. We got his two buddies from Juco this week(one of them being former USC LB Josh Tatum), but I didn't realize Hazelton was that strong a possibility.

He's going from changeup to splitter AFTER having elbow surgery?

We get the Rams and the Chiefs, who combined have won half as many games as the Niners and Raiders. Thankfully the semester is over on Friday, so I get to go home to where only the Rams have to be on.

Those Gileses(Gilii?) are crazy.

Just please please please keep him away from the major league team, I don't want to hate my favorite baseball player as a manager.

http://www.didtexaswinthebig12in2008.com/

I suggested Rocco as part of a DeRosa/Fontenot/Rocco three headed monster at 2B/RF a couple weeks back. For that purpose it'd be similar to adding Bradley but without the contractural commitment.

Firefox. I used Chrome for a bit, but it needs to come a bit further with extensibility before I give up Firefox for it. Of course by then Firefox will be updated with their new javascript engine making it just as snappy as Chrome, so the answer is likely to remain Firefox.

It's really not difficult to craft a reasonable response that's not "cmon, Joey Gathright?". Not everything needs to be black and white. i dont understand what you're saying i've researched defensive metrics with an open mind in the past and i simply don't buy the accuracy that many people here are acting as though they give. That doesn't mean you throw out the data point altogether. Even if you halve the defensive impact from each(and in most of the cases here we're talking about players on complete opposite ends of defensive ability(Gathright/Pie/Fukudome v. Dunn/Ibanez/Abreu)), then it's still worth pointing out that those defensive differences make them closer in value than Rotoworld might lead someone to believe.

It's really not difficult to craft a reasonable response that's not "cmon, Joey Gathright?". Not everything needs to be black and white.

Singled out. Is that better? Oh, and way to refute the points. Another person incapable of addressing the point at hand. How fitting. Either way, claiming to be singled out/targeted is rings awfully hollow considering the condescending responses you've dealt out in this thread("you Sabermetricians- who famously ignore any part of the game that cannot be quantified by some obscure methodology and formula"..."Another person incapable of addressing the point at hand. How fitting." among other incredulous rhetoricals making insinuations about the poster rather than the topic at hand), with none given by me in return. People arguing the other side of your posts doesn't mean you're being singled out, and if you're the angriest voice(why that is, I'm not sure) among those from that viewpoint, then you're the one that's going to get responded to.

40 runs is an awful lot, especially when Ibanez doesn't even OPS .900. 10 runs = 1 win? Yep. seems a little odd/arbitrary to me, but whatever. BP has gathright at 84 EqR in 839 PAs the past 3 seasons ibanez is at 311 EqR in 2042 PAs. so if you assume that each guy gets 650 PAs in full playing time, at their current level of production, gathright would produce 65 runs while ibanez produces 99. so 34 runs difference. i guess my figure was a bit high but not off by much, and i don't see how gathright is 3.4 "wins" better than ibanez in the field. Using wOBA, Ibanez projects around .345 for next year(James says .346, Marcel .344). With .328 as league average, that puts him about 10 runs above average. UZR has him around -24 in LF in '07 and -11 in '08. Moving to RF and getting a year older isn't going to help that, but let's say he's -10 to be simple and he's net zero above average. Gathright is a career +19 defender in LF, +13 in CF. We'll split the difference conservatively(since RF is between LF and CF, closer to LF, on the defensive spectrum) and say he's +15 in RF. To put him on par with Ibanez, he needs to be at worst -15 at the plate, which is a .302 wOBA. Marcel has him at .302(.264/.333/.329 slash line) and James .315(.281/.356/.321) next year. This is where I differ from Colin, since I think those projections are optimistic for Gathright, a career .293 wOBA guy who put up an awful .280 last year. I don't think he's quite on par with Ibanez or Abreu on that offense+defense basis, but it's not as far fetched as you might think from looking at them offensively. That said, the extent that you agree with the logic depends on how down you are with UZR. If you think being able to put a number on runs saved is preposterous, then it's not going to carry much weight. If you think UZR has been the leader in defensive metrics to this point, then it should at least give reason for pause, even if you don't ultimately agree.

Targeted? Really?

40 runs is an awful lot, especially when Ibanez doesn't even OPS .900. 10 runs = 1 win? Yep.

40 runs is an awful lot, especially when Ibanez doesn't even OPS .900.

That and he tore the cover off the ball last year in Boise at age 18.

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't make sweeping generalizations, especially those with such condescending negative connotations. Because you've spent a lot of time trying to discredit the methodology and not that point. If you had made any point of your own countering what Colin said instead of going on about "guesses".