See, I don’t have stories like this because I went to high school in San Diego.
All we did was walk over to Tijuana where clubs would literally serve you as much alcohol as you wanted for… six dollars.
Six dollars.
Whether something is “good for the game” and whether something is “effective” are two completely different conversations, though. No one is arguing the former while, in this thread, you have repeatedly argued against the latter.
And the latter is demonstrably true, whether you think it’s ruining the game or not.
PS. If you want to discuss whether analytics are “good for the game”, I suspect you’d see a fair amount of agreement from the likes of Levi and myself… but that’s not what this thread is about.
As a long time forum resident/owner, I've lost track of how many Joe Bensons there have been over the past 20 years (ie. players that were released to great internet outrage, only to amount to absolutely nothing in MLB, if they ever even got there).
Right? We had a Twins Daily meeting in my yard while the game was going and expected the meeting to finish well before the end of the game. Instead, the inverse happened.
I want more baseball like that, please.
I honestly expected WPA to be worse than that but there were two starting pitchers in that list and starting pitchers don't move the needle that much in WPA so I guess I should have expected that result. Starters generally either pitch well and get a small WPA bump or they pitch badly and their team never has a chance to win, which means they only went from 50% chance to 0% chance.
The huge pitching swings in WPA come when your team is on the verge of victory and you snatch defeat instead, which can give a single pitcher close to 100% of the credit for the loss. Hence Colome having that monstrous -2.4 WPA.
The only one I was sorry to see go was May. He’s a legitimate late inning reliever while the other two have much more of a smoke and mirrors vibe. That doesn’t mean they can’t succeed but I sure don’t trust them much.