David

BRYANT IS AWFUL

i'm far from an expert, but tbh his stuff has seemed fine. hopefully it's just rust causing him to miss spots or something. disclaimer: i have had my attention away from the tv for each of the dongs he gave up

can we go back and offer more for verlander? lester is currently trash

matt kemp, however, is not

at least freeman is good

kinda feel bad (for him) that rivera won't make the postseason roster unless something goes horribly wrong. he's been solid. he'll get to cheerlead in the dugout i guess

i don't know where the hell he was playing but this is just awesome [tweet] [/tweet]

is it just me or does he look sorta like scissors?

doesn't start til next week

so maybe that run in rivera had with david dejesus in the parking lot where he told him to go the other way was magic lmfao

i know it's only one game, but holy crap (and i'm seeing all of this on twitter), but who was it that was all we should've waited til next year's way better qb class to draft josh allen? these are some awful awful picks he's throwing

Good chance he ends up on the practice squad I'd think. I think he'll get picked up but I guess we'll see

Trubs > Josh Allen

Gentry got cut? I'm not saying he's gonna be some stud or anything, but what the hell are the Bears doing?

Could've sworn i just saw a kid in a cubs jersey clapping for hader to strike out murphy

now i'm curious as to what the worst season has been by a guy with a very high OBP in a significant amount of plate appearances. i bet jose offerman is up there somewhere. i wish i could tag TT in this post since there's just about no chance he comes in here on his own http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2017&month=0&season1=2000&ind=1&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=54689&players=0&sort=22,a haha wow. awesome. thanks. and the worst .400 obp season by fWAR would be nick johnson's 2009...1.6 fWAR in 133 g with a .426 obp

now i'm curious as to what the worst season has been by a guy with a very high OBP in a significant amount of plate appearances. i bet jose offerman is up there somewhere. i wish i could tag TT in this post since there's just about no chance he comes in here on his own

well, a - it's just one stat... like looking at obp on it's own without looking at slg. it's not like it's some all encompassing composite performance metric. and b - yes, obviously, preseason stats are meaningless, especially against the competition he mostly faced, but it's still cool to see the trait everyone raved about him translate directly into his performance to the point that he was the best of any qb No no no no no no Looking at this stat is nothing like looking at OBP on its own w/o SLG. when i made that post, i had no doubt in my mind that you'd make this exact reply. the point is that there's a lot more that goes into how good he is and how bad those guys (sans jameis) are than just the one stat. it's not a catch all and neither is obp. obviously, outside that basic common relationship (that it's only one aspect and not a composite measurement of performance), OBP is much more a corollary aspect of being a good baseball player than this completion percentage is for a QB. but the point is while those guys may have been very accurate, they still could've been garbage by throwing a bunch of 2 yard passes to achieve it, while mitchell was making throws of a pretty high degree of difficulty. (for the record, there are occasionally extreme cases where a baseball player will have a good obp and still be horrendously shitty. see jeff blauser 1998. nobody remembers that he still managed to have a .340 on base that year.) edit - (no idea where i was going with that "people are" in the quote below lol)

is that all? seriously tho, let's go horsefeathers 21-7 against these horsefeathers ass teams and get to 95. just out of curiosity, what was the ridiculous run the 2015 team went on over the last few weeks to actually get to 97? i remember it being pretty ridiculous (and i'm too busy righ tnow to do more than ask about it here)

[tweet] [/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet] Cubs RD ranks 7th in baseball (one more game against the Reds away from the DBacks for 6th) and they basically did it from a good amount (7 or 8 games) past the halfway point of the season. I also remember the Cardinals tying (or even being ahead of us) in RD maybe 3 weeks ago. We're now nearly double theirs, lol.

This guy is, apparently, a sports anchor on WBBM radio. Yikes. [tweet] [/tweet][tweet] [/tweet][tweet] [/tweet]

is that all? seriously tho, let's go motherfucking 21-7 against these horsefeathers ass teams and get to 95.

The other names on that graphic make me think being on the graphic doesn't mean all that much. well, a - it's just one stat... like looking at obp on it's own without looking at slg. it's not like it's some all encompassing composite performance metric. and b - yes, obviously, preseason stats are meaningless, especially against the competition he mostly faced, but it's still cool to see the trait everyone raved about him translate directly into his performance to the point that he was the best of any qb

I honestly don't think either makes the WS and think at least one loses in the DS. i honestly don't think anything specific happens because literally anything can and will. and yeah, you're probably right about neither making the WS.

So the Astros have actually surpassed the Dodgers' World Series odds on Fangraphs (by a hair). 18.8% to 17.6%