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  1. Bull
    Soto...mmmm
  2. Bull
    actually up in the loss column. Cubs control their own destiny Now I'm excited.
  3. Bull
    poopin my pants
  4. Bull
    He definitely had some jingling HUGE brass balls last night. after checking the sound my own make, i can assure you that big brass balls dont really jingle, its more of a clanking sound ;) must be hollow. That's why he's not a closer.
  5. Bull
    peaking at the right time. I think he and Eyre were both overused last year, and that this accounts for the slow start. Edited to add: Howry's career would been very different if Foulke had not emerged in 2000.
  6. Bull
    what's the latest on Sheets?
  7. Bull
    Why? Hes already said hes playing. Really? wow Brewers about to break it open I smell a 1st place tie :( I miss something? Why would Braun not play Saturday? He's Jewish
  8. Bull
    lets start with a hit
  9. Bull
    3/21 was an overpay, just becasue I can't see him getting offers that were close to that this offseason. However, his results have definitely been worth more than 7M a season. And I think Larry deserves a ton of credit for this. This is the point that get's lost in the shuffle too often. Larry has done a very nice job this year. How many guys have rotated in and out of that bullpen? What I think has helped Larry is that Curly and Moe were fired last year. Post of the day
  10. Bull
    It could be dependent on Ward for all we know.
  11. Bull
    also this viewtopic.php?t=39220 some funny stuff there. Prior and Miller ahead of Marshall.
  12. Bull
    Was this thread about Trachsel? I forgot. Anyway, I dug up this tid-bit. viewtopic.php?t=40831&start=0 I had forgotten Marshall started the season on the DL and pitched 0 innings in ST. Anyone else think Trax was brought in because Marshall is experiencing pain?
  13. Bull
    no.
  14. Bull
    Trachsel needs to stop doing this to me. Just pitch 2 more friggin' innings you make it look like the hardest friggin thing to do. He's given the team a 2.70 ERA (sure it's been ugly) thus far, I'm stunned and rather pleased. anomoly
  15. Bull
    and hit home runs. or had you forgotten already?
  16. Bull
    and stats clearly don't tell you any of that. Yes, they do but the math in order to get to the final number is dizzying. lucky for all of us, there are website that do all the math for us there is no "final number". All stats have value in their own way, but there is no one magic stat. That's why we are able to use ridiculous amounts of bandwidth arguing.
  17. Bull
    well played
  18. Bull
    When I started this thread, I didn't think there would be all of this discussion over semantics. My point is that Lilly has been the best Cub starter all year, has been the starter to break all of the losing streaks, and continues to be the pitcher who gives the Cubs the best chance to win games this year. To me, that defines the "ace" of a staff. I'm not talking about next year, who has the best stuff, his flyball ratio, or whether he would be the "ace" on other teams. Oh come on now Btb....if you said the sky looked blue you'd get a nice little semantic debate about what shade of blue! Anyone who knows anything, knows the sky is: Teal 12% of the time "Sky Blue" ironically only 8% Aqua 9% Midnight Blue 7% Black 32.6% various shades of the red/orange/yellow families 4% others 25.3% of the other categories "blue" constitutes less than 1% my knowledge of the subject is so far superior to those of you who observe with a crayola 8-pack mind. I see the full 256 crayon box. you are now on ignore Very good MrWood. I'm here to entertain. Lika joggling monkey er somthin'.
  19. Bull
    When I started this thread, I didn't think there would be all of this discussion over semantics. My point is that Lilly has been the best Cub starter all year, has been the starter to break all of the losing streaks, and continues to be the pitcher who gives the Cubs the best chance to win games this year. To me, that defines the "ace" of a staff. I'm not talking about next year, who has the best stuff, his flyball ratio, or whether he would be the "ace" on other teams. Oh come on now Btb....if you said the sky looked blue you'd get a nice little semantic debate about what shade of blue! Anyone who knows anything, knows the sky is: Teal 12% of the time "Sky Blue" ironically only 8% Aqua 9% Midnight Blue 7% Black 32.6% various shades of the red/orange/yellow families 4% others 25.3% of the other categories "blue" constitutes less than 1% my knowledge of the subject is so far superior to those of you who observe with a crayola 8-pack mind. I see the full 256 crayon box. you are now on ignore
  20. Bull
    your posts are quite possibly the most entertaining aspect of this board right now.
  21. Bull
    Luis Gonzalez .284 .368 .482 120
  22. Bull
    you mean you want somebody to slam you so you can throw your preloaded statistics at them in an attempt to make them look or feel dumb. That said, I'd like to see your argument, as a first glance shows me a career OPS+ of 69.
  23. Bull
    He's having "bad years" in bunches now, and the "good years" have turned to mediocre, so, yeah.
  24. Bull
    So runs scored against bad pitchers are less valuable than runs scored against good ones? Runs scored against bad teams (strength of schedule) don't count for as much as those against elite teams? If you use this as a statement to that effect, you'd have to break down what runs were scored in what kids of games. Your sample size gets smaller and smaller. Now it sounds like you're valuing "close and late stats" Does this mean you believe in "clutch"?
  25. Bull
    They also play in a hitters park in a division with horrible pitching. Not to mention actual runs scored has a ton of noise involved, you'd be better off looking at something like RC or even OPS. The Cubs have scored more runs than they probably should have on the season. Same thing with the pitching, ERA is a horrible stat to use to judge pitchers by because of how much statistical noise and variance is involved in the stat. Every stat has value (well maybe except W-L record for a pitcher). Despite the fact they "should have scored less run", it doesn't change the fact that they did score those runs. Somehow you have to account for that. If runs scored is worthless then you're saying that pythagorean record as a predictor is worthless. Do you really believe this?
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