Hairyducked Idiot
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I honestly don't care in the slightest what you believe, and it is not my job to alleviate your ignorance.
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D/p
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#theyarebetter
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i'm only here until the soccer game gets going again I find myself surprisingly invested in that game.
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Everyone ok? A double like that to start the game makes me worry what a few of you might do to yourselves.
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I have to see a doctor if this lasts more than four hours, right.
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*shrug* believe what you want. Historically, pitchers don't show the same steady rise through their first few years in the big leagues that hitters do, and while there is a decline phase for those who make it that far, many don't last long enough for it to come up. So while there is still a bit of a curve to it, the pitching aging "curve" is much flatter. Meanwhile, pitchers tend to show sudden leaps and declines in performance more often than hitters. The leaps are usually correlated with an overnight improvement in command, the declines with arm attrition. Our whole organizational philosophy is based around these ideas.
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That's surprising; I would have figured you had read somewhere that aging curve for starting pitchers ended at, like, 22. Pitchers don't have much of a curve. They just are who they are until they change spontaneously or their arm blows up.
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I wish Scherzer had pitched for Epstein in Boston.
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This is the Rob Schneider movie of baseball games.
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Oh crap Kris Bryant can't see at night. Useless in playoff games.
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Well this game can officially go to hell.
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If you talk to Boston that's not exactly a rare FA mistake from Theo. And the fact that his 2 big FA signings with the Cubs are Lester (not willing to give up on the signing but it's trended bad) and Jaxon signals concern. We talked about it a lot at the time of the hiring. His history with big FA pitching isn't uniformly awful, but it is pretty bad.
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Isn't he supposed to be a pitcher that ages gracefully and that's why Theo was willing to sign a big FA over 30? That was certainly part of the spin.
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Then things get a little harder. It would suck, but he is just one player.
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The fun side is how this is the part of Lester's contract where we need to pile up excess value to make up for the end.
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Four of the last five on your list are below average.
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And I'm saying that is overstating it. The reasons to think he might not are just as strong. SS defense declines early, and his bat has been down as often as not post-2012.
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The lack of self-awareness is delicious. If that is what you think is happening, you may feel free not to respond.
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That's probably the best way to put it; people respond to nonsense rantings by meatballs who think he's a baseball cancer and that gets spun as people being "Castro lovers" or in denial or now "downplaying" his faults. How about it's just expecting people to not lose their damn minds every week over an average baseball player? And this hits on the heart of it: this isn't about accurately describing Castro (the guy half a win below replacement being described as "average."). It is about digging heels into the ground against meatballs.
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I know. I'm saying the chances of Castro being not useful are being downplayed. AKA "[expletive], people are hoping that he continues to improve and I need to stomp all over that [expletive]." Nobody's ignoring 2013 or his bad May. Hoping and describing it as "reasonably obvious" are not synonymous. Nor are "ignoring" and "downplaying." You came into this looking to post the "nobody is saying that!" faux histrionics schtick, but you aren't paying the slightest attention to what anyone is saying.
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THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION Happy to help. Would you be interested in my thoughts on Chris Sale? I am rather impressed with him.
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I know. I'm saying the chances of Castro being not useful are being downplayed.
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He would need to improve a fair bit just to be replacement. I'm saying I think the odds of Castro putting in a sub-replacement performance in the remaining season are being downplayed. His entire 2013 and his entire 2015 to date total to below replacement. A bounceback is possible, maybe even slightly probable, but it is certainly not a gimme putt.
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MAYBE HE CAN JUST NOT COME BACK LOL