CubUgly

Yes, this ai about as good as it gets, we need to hold on to this feeling as long as we can - there will be times, and likely multiple, later this year where we want to DFA everyone and fire everyone.

The Giants Park is really nice - of the trendy new parks folks started building around in the 90's I like that one and the Pirates the best. But nothing beats the Wrigley experience.

Yeah, they smoked about 5 or 6 balls at least that found gloves last night. We had some good fortune and them not so much in that regard.

That's the third game you could say he made a huge contribution to winning for us already this year. If he does nothing else that's pretty valuable.

I think he was at 102 pitches, that's probably the reason.

He got ALOT of swing and miss today.

Gallen's ERA is good but his underlying numbers are not. 1.36 WHIP. Hard hit rate is pretty high. He's a candidate for regression - hope it starts today. Weather may help him though.

Agreed, they always reference soft factors for catchers like calling games and how they work with pitchers. Can't be quantified which kills some but it's relevant and fairly significant. It's IMHO why Contreras isn't catching anymore, moreso than pitch framing.

I didn't say it was a flawed model - just said we've seen teams even through a full season that belie the metrics and end up finishing better than teams that have significantly higher run differential even over 162 games - and it's why some folks don't lean all in on analytics. It's a good predictive tool you are correct and it's not a flawed model, it's just not perfect. None are. There is just nuance and baseball is about as random a sport as there is and as much as we try to boil it all down to numbers and stats, that randomness rears its head constantly. But it gives us endless points of discussion, which is what makes baseball so great to me.

Of course, I was not saying that either.

I was speaking more about the run differential thing than Busch actually.

You would think water will find its level eventually in this regard, but we've seen years and examples where it never does. Which is why some folks have a hard time leaning all in on analytics.

Sutt is kinda like the lifelong friend you genuinely love, but after about 5 minutes you can't be around him anymore at the party and you have to avoid him the rest of the evening.

Honestly, with how quickly he adjusted and actually thrived at third I had little doubt he could adjust at other positions defensively. The question was given the unevenness of his year offense last year could he be consistent hitter. The jury is still out, but I think he can be.

I hear you, forums like this can be judgmental on just about everyone and everything, and specifically this site can be about as pointedly and aggressively so as any I've been on. I myself am not past passing judgement so I can't be a hypocrite. But the game broadcast is content most of us either directly or indirectly pay for - so commenting on it is fair game I think. I certainly could not do it at a high level. But, in the moment when he Sutt said it, my friend and I texted simultaneously - "did you just hear that"?