Transmogrified Tiger

Murray State is the only game on the schedule that doesn't scare the ever loving crap out of me. Saturday night should be fun.

Worked well there, I thought. I don't agree at all with the opinion either, but rolleyes as a response is stupid and immature, some might even interpret it worse than that. This is just part of the campaign though. Rolleyes doesn't do anything except aggravate people, hence my desire to see him eliminated.

Fun fact of the day: Geo Soto is hitting .272/.367/.495/.862 since the all-star break (~120 PA's)

I noticed that too. Even though Cedeno would've had Rolen with an accurate throw, Jones still spiked it like an NFL wideout.

Well done.

I'm surprised Buster Olney correctly spelled NL.

Whatever timeframe you want to separate by, it's pretty clear that there was a stretch that he was on fire, coupled by mediocre to okay play, with awful play at the beginning of the year. That's the point, that the sample you used contained stretches of okay/great/mediocre, and that aside from that great stretch(which happened to be about a 4 week stretch) he's been a poor offensive player. That's your whole Macias argument all over again. "Take away that weekend in San Diego...............". But you've never explained the rationale behind discounting a positive outlier, but not the negative outlier whenever you don't like the guy. Because in each of those cases the negative outlier is much closer to the norm. Macias has been garbage his whole life(and the SD thing was more a tribute to how his small number of AB's was easily skewed), and Pierre hasn't been "good"(in quotations because Pierre at his best is still not spectacular, but a worthwhile leadoff hitter) since the Cubs were last a winning team. Also, it was someone else than me that was claiming Pierre had made some sort of adjustment and had used a long period of time as justification. It's worth pointing out that when you isolate his hot streak from the beginning of the time in question, it shows that Pierre's improvement is more of just that, a hot streak, than an adjustment that has led to a consistent, marked improvement.

petition to ban rolleyes plz

That's not stupid; that's common sense. I think all head-to-head leagues require an even number of teams so nobody has a bye in a given week. I know Yahoo does. Its called a BYE week. The NFL gets away with it pretty well. Fantasy teams need a week off to rest and regroup?

Maybe, can't tell for sure. I've read a little of John Hill's stuff and it seemed different than Diffusion, but maybe it was the same person with a different style for a different medium.

A poster who used similarly comprehensive dismantlings of other people's points. He was British too, which adds a level of coolness. Haven't seen him around here in quite some time.

You know who I miss? Diffusion.

Whatever timeframe you want to separate by, it's pretty clear that there was a stretch that he was on fire, coupled by mediocre to okay play, with awful play at the beginning of the year. That's the point, that the sample you used contained stretches of okay/great/mediocre, and that aside from that great stretch(which happened to be about a 4 week stretch) he's been a poor offensive player.

The fact that he is leading the league in hits since June 24th means he has made the adjustments that were needed to be made. He is getting on base more, and is making things happen at the top of the order. He had a hot streak like any other player. His .345/.380/.496/.876 line in July was great, but he's not going to continue that, as evidenced by his return to mediocrity with a .299/.336/.411/.747 August line. I think he stands a real good chance to keep putting up numbers like he has over the last 3 months......... 05/27 - 08/26 AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS Pierre 354 41 110 21 10 1 154 23 19 14 0.311 0.355 0.435 0.790 ..... which, while not great numbers, are in keeping with his career numbers, and are a whole lot better than "an abysmal offensive player". By the way, TMT, I really do miss your AB by AB updates of Juan's OPS in the game threads. :wink: Again though, that's buoyed by his July. When you look at his numbers month by month, it's pretty apparent what the anomaly is, especially considering how poorly he did last year.

The fact that he is leading the league in hits since June 24th means he has made the adjustments that were needed to be made. He is getting on base more, and is making things happen at the top of the order. He had a hot streak like any other player. His .345/.380/.496/.876 line in July was great, but he's not going to continue that, as evidenced by his return to mediocrity with a .299/.336/.411/.747 August line.

I didn't know they had color cameras back in the Spanish-American War.

Pierre is good at catching the balls he gets to. Unfortunately, he gets poor jumps, takes bad routes, and I imagine has to intentionally throw the ball as poorly as he does. Using errors as a justification of his defense is a very flawed argument, just like the argument that Pierre is okay because he won a world series, and just like the argument that because Pierre has lead anything in hits from some arbitrary date that he's not an abysmal offensive player.

If you win with pitching and defense, then I'd say 85-90% of it is pitching.

I don't trading Pierre through the waiver wire will get the return desired thus far in the thread.

point spreads are dumb

Howry is the Cubs worst reliever? Howry pitched the 8th, not a "give up a run and lose" situation. Time and time again Dusty has gone to the back of the bullpen for the 9th, 10th, etc. innings when tied on the road.

I don't disagree with you about the kill me part, Novoa isn't great. But Wuertz did pitch yesterday and the Cubs are out of it. Why over use him? He did pitch yesterday, but not either of the previous 2 days. I don't think it's over use to pitch him an inning today.

That had nothing to do with it. Novoa was slow to the plate with a slider, the base was stolen long before Bynum was involved.

OOC, I was only half watching the game, who else was available? Wuertz Aardsma Ohman Dempster Not exactly a murderers row of pitchers there. All are better than Novoa. And it's not just today, Dusty's philosophy is completely backwards with how to handle 9th inning ties/extra inning games on the road.

Is Dusty the only manager in the majors that goes from his worst reliever on up when his team gets into "give up a run and lose" situations?