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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sac bunting can occasionally result in a hit, whether you are trying or not. Point is, a successful sacrifice bunt slightly lowers the team's chance of winning. The chance that the bunt will be mishandled by the defense negates some of that.
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    I seem to recall someone (BP?) doing a study that shows when you take into all of that plus fielding errors, sac bunts move closer to a positive proposition. Wait, when you include all the bad things that can happen when you sac bunt it becomes closer to a positive proposition? Fielding errors (and bunts for hits) are a positive proposition for the offense. They not only outweigh the force outs and failed bunts, they actually push the attempt closer to breakeven (not that it was ever that far off, it was always pretty close).
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    I seem to recall someone (BP?) doing a study that shows when you take into all of that plus fielding errors, sac bunts move closer to a positive proposition.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    So you are saying that Soriano is Mexican, but came here via Canada?
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    The corollary to that argument is that big-league pitchers should know how to place the ball in a way that it can't easily be bunted.
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    Not quite as fun as the time I was Time Man of the Year.
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    A good MLB middle infielder would probably show you his middle finger if you'd ask him to field at silly point 8-) And "hit a little" does injustice to the ability of people like Imran Khan and Wilfred Rhodes, imho On the first point, that's fine. But does silly point really take that much skill? Courage, sure. I guess maybe quick hands. But you are mostly just hoping the ball pops up at you (or sticks in your pocket, as it did for that one guy a few weeks back). As far as all-rounders, that's why I said "usually." But the basic point is that no cricket player will ever be denied a position if they can bowl or bat to an adequate degree. In baseball, there are only a few positions that you can play if you have no defensive skill, and at some positions defense is more important than offense.
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    Sabermetrics is the study of baseball in a scientific way. There are generally two areas in which it excels: Prediction and value-assignment. Six at-bats is useless to a sabermetric prediction, but there's no reason we can't assign a value to the performance using sabermetric principles.
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    I'm gonna have to disagree with what the raw OPS would suggest on this one... a guy hitting a HR every 6 AB would have to be more than borderline productive :shock: Yeah, I oversimpilified. A home run is worth, on average, about 1.5 runs, iirc? That's 0.30 runs per out. The average NL team scores about 0.17 runs per out. So Soriano's performance was about .65 runs better than average for the game, which is not at all borderline.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    From a purely sabermetric point of view, he had a .166 OBP and a .667 SLG for the game. Borderline productive. The timing of the hit was beyond his control, so to speak.
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    The great allrounders of cricket history are laughing at this post. :evil: And I'm laughing right back at them. The allrounders are usually just bowlers who can hit a little. None of them can field. I watch quite a bit of cricket, I know what they consider "great" defense, and a good MLB middle infielder would put them all to shame.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    At first I thought you were joking about this but you seriously think that because he has the most outs ever it takes away from him having the most hits? You are actually serious? I honestly don't know what to say to that. That is by far the most ridiculous argument that I have ever heard. I'm not completely serious. I'm just saying that "he had the most hits" is an overrated argument.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    He made more outs than anyone who ever played. Shouldn't that disqualify him? No, and your argument is ridiculous. He did the worst thing a batter could do more times than anyone, ever, in history. That shouldn't even be considered, but most hits should make him a shoo-in? Baseball is a game where the most elite hitters make outs 6 out of 10 plate appearances. Like CyHawk said... if he wasn't great, he wouldn't have been around long enough to make all those outs. Unless the manager had a motivation to play him that didn't have to do with whether he was good or not.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    He made more outs than anyone who ever played. Shouldn't that disqualify him? No, and your argument is ridiculous. He did the worst thing a batter could do more times than anyone, ever, in history. That shouldn't even be considered, but most hits should make him a shoo-in?
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    He made more outs than anyone who ever played. Shouldn't that disqualify him?
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm more curious as to whether his betting ever helped him achieve the all-time out record.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    At the press conference announcing Bernazard's firing, Minaya claimed that the New York Daily News reporter who broke the "fight" story had been bugging the Mets' front office for a job. The reporter stood up and said it was "despicable" to imply he was trying to use his position for some personal vendetta.
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    The one about "he kisses her on the strikes" has been repeated with various broadcasters' names filled in pretty much since baseball began being broadcast.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Joe Carter, Dave Otto, Joe Morgan, Buck and McCarver, Hawk Harrelson... I haven't heard a lot of Harrelson, but none of the others bother me. Sure, they say some dumb things, but I can just tune them out. The only reason Santo bothers me is because Hughes plays along with his schtick and loses track of the game.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    The quickest data I could find was from 2006-2008, when the average payroll for the Cubs was $115 million and the Cardinals was $102 million. http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2009/03/mlb-team-payrolls-2006-2007-2008-efficiency-analysis/ I guess it's semantics whether that qualifies as "far apart" or not.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    To play the devil's advocate, the Cubs and Cardinals payrolls haven't been that far apart, iirc, and Hendry didn't fluke into the greatest hitter of our generation.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't quite get much announcers seem to affect people's enjoyment of the broadcasts. Outside of Ron Santo, I can't think of any that were good or bad enough to make me notice much.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Combine sensationalism with innumeracy with a lack of knowledge of any field outside of English... modern journalism is screwed and screwed up edit: because we have so many journalism types here, I guess I should point out that not all of the class is innumerate or ignorant. This is not an article that Kylejrm would have written, and I'm sure there are several others here whose names escape me at the moment who could be included. I'm probably one of the worst; I just talk about myself a lot. Anyways, there was a lot of discussion about this on some sports journalism sites. The consensus, with which I agree, is that the reference to the "legal limit" was way out of line.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    The league in question would be a 20/20 league, which is more or less a three-hour home-run derby.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hendry has benefitted from some very low-hanging fruit in that analysis. There's got to be a little more to being a good GM than having a ton of money in a crappy division.
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