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  1. CDog
    My goodness was Weaver filthy last night. I can't even think of another good candidate for best pitching performance I've watched. Liriano's no-no last year wasn't even as good as his later start where he took the perfecto deep into the game...and even that second one wasn't up where Weaver was last night. Everything was right where he wanted it, everything was exceedingly sharp, and he never seemed to get away from his plan. It almost got to be a surprise that they even put a couple of semi-close calls in late in the game.
  2. CDog
    Yay! I can't wait to see how they manage to win the division this year! That's gonna be quite a comeback from this poor start.
  3. CDog
    Well he did say "lately." Not typically Gardenhire's style, but over the previous week or two, Carroll's OBP was falling sharply while Casilla's had been climbing. And with the comments by Carroll after Tuesday's game, it wouldn't surprise me if he had even brought up the idea because he didn't seem like he was feeling all that confident about himself at the plate recently.
  4. CDog
    I didn't see a single sour grape there.
  5. CDog
    Hmmm...I wonder what was different in the league in the mid-90's. Hmmm. I don't know if that's funny or sad or both.
  6. CDog
    Yeah, I remember everyone wondering why he was struggling out of the gate in 2009 when he only hit .414 in May with a .500 (wait, .500!!!!) OBP and .838 SLG (for a 1.338 OPS). Then when he went .353/.407/.490 in June, all the baseball world was clamoring about what could be wrong. Then in 2010 we had to go through it all again when he finished April only .345/.406/.500. Methinks your memory may have tricked you.
  7. CDog
    I don't necessarily disagree with your concept, but aren't the players turning over at a pretty high rate to negate that? A huge chunk of the players just got here. And a good portion of the guys who have been here a while are performing fine.
  8. CDog
    I actually looked up Butera's numbers to include in my response to be funny...turned out funnier than I thought! I expected he would have a large enough SLG advantage to make up a lot of ground on all of them. I think it was Volstad that actually slugged the same, and the rest weren't far behind. Yikes.
  9. CDog
    Oh...and just to be a good sport and to play along, #2 is not only not obviously true, but I would contend that it's obviously false.
  10. CDog
    Thank you so much. I now return you to your regularly scheduled episode of Taken Out of Context.
  11. CDog
    Haha. My questions were mostly rhetorical because of the nature of the claim. It was a tiny stone thrown to keep this forum from turning into the comments section of a certain local paper or two. But as long as we're picking nits, we both know BA isn't the best stat for how good a hitter is. Butera crushes those guys on wOBA from 2011 (.183, .201, and .197 to Butera's .202). (I can't wait to see how serious and personal that attack was on the quoted poster!)
  12. CDog
    I have no idea what the point of the rest of your post was, but this part made me chuckle. It's good to have documentation that you have no idea what WAR is attempting to measure. Or don't have a calendar.
  13. CDog
    One of the things I don't like is when a person wishes he would pull the ball more and then that same person gets upset when he grounds out to 2nd. Increasing one will increase the other. (And no, I'm not suggesting that you are being that person with this post.) It looks like his GB/FB ratio this year is higher than normal, but it's coming as a result of fewer fly balls as much as increased ground balls. The line drive rate is actually up, so that's good. I generally agree that 2011, especially his first stint before the DL was alarming because of how often he was hitting ground balls. This season started that way for like three to five games if I remember right, and yes, the last couple. Maybe something to keep an eye out for, but obviously we're talking short "streaks" and not full-fledged patterns yet for this year.
  14. CDog
    So it's being dumb to be able to figure out that getting more outs AND giving up fewer runs than in any previous start is better? Seeing that that's better than getting fewer outs while giving up more runs has anything to do with expecations?
  15. CDog
    Wow, talk about misrepresenting! In no particular order, 1) I made no claim about any of those contracts, and certainly not any of the assertions that you asserted that I asserted. 2) Are you really claiming that catching MAY be more valuable than DH'ing? As in not for certain? Even taking two fielding positions and thinking they are the same is ridiculous. Stretching that to a DH is absurd. 3) In what crazy world are Mauer's and Pierre's numbers similar? The 130 point OPS difference? The 60+ point wOBA difference? 4) For what it's worth, fangraphs estimate of value for Punto's $8M seasons was $13.3M. Cuddyer outperformed two of the three years of his final contract and totaled $30.1M. I think those tend to be a little high, but still bears mentioning. I'm sure I could go on. BUT...the main point of my post that you quoted was none of that. It was that your first paragraph made the point that the contract leads the expectations. Your second paragraph made the point that only performance matters and that everyone should have the same expectations. Putting them in different paragrpahs doesn't change that the post in general is clearly self-conflicting. But I'm glad you took that in stride.
  16. CDog
    Did I even mention Revere or Span? You stated your opinion, and then added that the only conclusion you could come to for Gardnehire doing something different than you would do was worrying about feelings. I contend that it's juuuuust possible that he could actually disagree with you. AND...here's the shocker...it's even possible that in a difference of opinion, it's possible that the other person is right. Still waiting for any source for Willingham being unwilling to play right field (other than just someone on the internets making it up and typing it).
  17. CDog
    Wow. That didn't seem like your style. Yuck.
  18. CDog
    Clearly if he disagrees with you it's due to a reason like that. Obviously you've got more and better information available to you than Gardy does. And let's not get into all the extra experience you have. So that's the only conclusion one could reach. Wait...I'm thinking...
  19. CDog
    This came off a little bit like, "I'd never sell my dog for any price in the world! Oh...wait...a hundred bucks? Done."
  20. CDog
    Because why now? Because the only time players have been injured playing sports is when the training staff has done....what now?
  21. CDog
    Agreed that most fans are pretty tolerant of gear. I've been to games all over (including two Twins games in Arlington), and almost never had an issue. Old Yankee Stadium was the lone exception and that was probably an isolated incident as our group was large and included one knucklehead with little man's syndrome that flares up especially when he's drinking, and we were seated near a group with a wannabe tough guy. The mix was a little combustible, but there still was no real incident. And the young kid in a Red Sox hat nearby took more abuse than we did. I think most of the "out of town" fan incidents at least partly involve behavior as the instigating factor more than just wearing a cap or a jersey (not saying that condones a home retaliation, just that it can lead to one). OK...sorry...back to the topic...
  22. CDog
    Every pitcher? Some pitchers? One pitcher? Most pitchers? Proof please?
  23. CDog
    First, I'm wondering why being a fan of someone and enjoying watching him play baseball makes someone an apologist. People who get off on being miserable and holier than thou throw that around with the Kool-Aid idiom so often it pains me. God forbid someone actually think differently than you. Secondly, the quoted post made me wonder if it was written as an exercise in point-counterpoint or maybe by two different people. Or possibly someone just wants to be complain about something, so to cover the bases decided to complain about two different and opposite things. The first paragraph is devoted to the concept that Mauer, Capps, Nishioka, and Cuddyer are rightfully booed because they make too much money (without well-demonstrating that). The second paragraph says that the expectation placed on the players should have nothing to do with who they are or outside factors: only their performance matters. Which is it?
  24. CDog
    I'm pretty sure the original post went into pretty much every detail of the calculations done, so I'm not sure exactly what could be being "overblown." If I count the men and women in a room and report the ratio is 7:5, is that overblowing the results? And pitchers can also accumulate value as a reliever, so I would think that's cooked into the analysis that was done, too. Perhaps a different way of looking at things would put a different set of shadows on it, but then someone could always do that if they wanted...
  25. CDog
    Not as fun as advertised!
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