Hairyducked Idiot
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That's really not all that surprising... how many times do pitchers walk period? 37% of the time.
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Hahahaha, walked Maholm. Phillies broadcast says that's the first time he's walked a pitcher since May 10 of last year. Didn't get anything out of it, but at least ran the pitch count.
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If you normalized his Babip, he would go from 12/22 on balls in play to 7/22. That would leave him with a .370 obp. Not exactly a fringe bat. Now also normalize his HR/FB%...
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You're basing that statement on that small of a sample? Matt Stairs played MLB level for a long time I'm basing that statement on his career and a lifetime of Julio Zuletas and Micah Hoffpauirs. I'm dismissing his small sample stats because of his small sample peripherals. It's not like we're talking about Tyler Colin here who mustered a slg heavy .800 ops by having an unusually high hr/fb. Lahair has exaggerated peripherals - but that's allowing him to have his 1.100 ops. Once those numbers come down, we'll see if he can keep his strike out rate down as well and continue to be a good hitter (his k rate isn't historically quite this high). In the worst case, he's a bench bat for a few years and could even be a valuable player on a contending Cubs team depending on how he ages. That's really not the worst case. The worst case is that he continues to strike out at an unacceptable level, and when his BABIP and HR/FB% return to reasonable levels, he'll be a replacement-level offensive 1b with bad defense. He'll then spend the rest of his career bouncing between AAA and Japan.
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Bill Veeck was fabulous. He had his phone number listed for years in Chicago and people could him at home and talk. Imagine that today. I think on the Eddie Gaedel contract, which had to be approved by the league office. Veeck ignored the telegram telling him 'No' and stuck Gaedel in there anyway. Brian Taylor was touted as the next Yankee 'HOF pitcher' and his Topps card was over-hyped. I picked up a couple packs in downtown Naperville and found 3 Brian Taylors. I gave one to a friend and told him that would pay for his son's college. Not so much, I guess. It always cracked me up that nobody thinking baseball cards had long-term value is what gave them long-term value. Then when people started saving them because of that value, it killed the value.
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You're basing that statement on that small of a sample? Matt Stairs played MLB level for a long time I'm basing that statement on his career and a lifetime of Julio Zuletas and Micah Hoffpauirs. I'm dismissing his small sample stats because of his small sample peripherals.
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BABIP .522 HR/FB: 37.4% K%: 33.3% Cute little hot streak, but there's nothing to see here and he'll have washed out by this time next year.
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No one is going to give you anything of value, ever, for Bryan LaHair.
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 4-25-12
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Outshined_One's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
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Labrum tears are still a pretty likely career derailer. It's not the 18 months off and back to normal that Tommy John is.
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What's the record for the closest two perfect games?
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Unfortunately, the cost of baseball players seems to be outpacing inflation, so it shrinks in utility.
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lol It's really not out of the question that we could lose 97 games, I'm suprised you think this is funny. If we go up and down the roster, for every player underperforming, you could also find a player not likely to continue at this production rate. Do you really think LaHair is going lead all firstbasemen in OPS by September? Okay, there's LaHair in the "overproducing" column. Keep going, match them up 1:1...
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By the time the justifications are over, the Cubs heading into the offseason would have been a 30-win team.
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Hold it here, Volstad. No inning of doom, please.
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Sidney, Montana referenced on the TV telecast because a group of kids are there "honoring" a teacher who died. The teacher in question died because she was out jogging near Williston, N.D. and a couple of drugged out oil workers snatched and killed her. Yet another Williston-Cubs connection.
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Or is it like that one week where Theriot hit like 5 HRs and then hit 1-2 the rest of the year? No. Definitely legit.
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Oh my goodness, I can't believe that didn't go. Barney's new power is legit.
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I've heard Baseball Prospectus, True Average, VORP, WAR, and BABIP referenced in the first five innings of the Cubs game today.
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BURN THE WITCH! I need to start predicting Stewart homers. That's way too easy. That's like predicting Derrick Rose baskets or something. I think even you feel bad for how unlucky Stewart has been so far. I don't feel bad because he's going to break out of it and put up awesome numbers.
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BURN THE WITCH! I need to start predicting Stewart homers. That's way too easy. That's like predicting Derrick Rose baskets or something.
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BURN THE WITCH!
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IOD: Averted.
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Clevenger needs to maybe let that ball come to him a bit more instead of reaching as far as he possibly can away from the point of the eventual tag.