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  1. ashbury
    Fixing grammar in a Riverbrian post is like repositioning the nose to be between the eyes in a Picasso portrait.
  2. ashbury
    The back fields will not feel the same.
  3. ashbury
    Backing up an earlier comment, I'm not sure there is even such an official entity during an offseason.
  4. ashbury
    Like, Ron Paul says to buy gold. I think I saw an ad about that somewhere.
  5. ashbury
    Despite my request not to threadjack the intent of the original post, a couple of additional posts debating SDI have occurred. I have moved them to a brand new thread, in the Other Baseball forum: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/24669-sabr-defensive-index/ Please take any additional disputation of the Index itself there.
  6. ashbury
    Komrade Molotov was partial to gasoline. Left a hell of a hangover, of course.
  7. ashbury
    This is a misanalysis. In particular, it misstates how a blend of numbers usually works. If a vintner blends several very different wines together, ones that have little in common except that each of them has an alcohol content of about 8-16%, the fact that they share this common feature does not mean that the resulting blend has its alcoholic content "inflated into the stratosphere". Are you claiming that any of the components of SDI is like blending Everclear into a wine batch, with regard to Errors? We are long past the days where Fielding Percentage, basically an inverse measure of Error frequency, is how anyone seriously judges fielders. Range, and the deficiencies of the Error stat itself, are among the reasons to move beyond. No serious analyst places Errors higher than, probably, the 12% level of the wine example above. But that is not the same as saying Errors, as noted by Official Scorers, are without meaning. It is not remarkable if people who have independently studied the question of fielding come to an independent conclusion that Errors need to figure into a defensive rating. With that rebuttal to this tangential swipe, I'd like to suggest taking discussion of the merits of any stats (WAR is another one that disrupts threads) to a separate thread, if you feel so moved.
  8. ashbury
    Nick Punto = Fred Hoiberg
  9. ashbury
    Backup-DH. That's how you list him first. Roster spots are too precious for that. Your defense of him is how I indict him.
  10. ashbury
    "That's why we don't have nice things."
  11. ashbury
    "Dozier led middle infielders in home runs in the period 2013 to 2015, and extended that lead to double digits over four years with his 2016 production." Falr? Why are we arguing about this? There isn't any controversy that home run power is the reason Dozier is a trade chip at all. There was a little mixup only when the word "elite" was applied, as to whether it meant the player as a whole, or just his home run power among second basemen.
  12. ashbury
    Chippy play? He must mean something different than I usually associate with the term. Also, total aside: any relation to actress Tracy Scoggins?
  13. ashbury
    So, a sentence construction begging to be misconstrued.
  14. ashbury
    Sweet battery, if we can swing it.
  15. ashbury
    In more ways than one. What are the odds Falvey and Levine haven't already had major disagreements on how to proceed on this lengthy decision?
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  17. ashbury
    It's what one realistically does. But I'm not fine with it.
  18. ashbury
    Unless your webcam is turned on while you surf the web, you may be overestimating the algorithms the ad services use.
  19. ashbury
    A male around 60? Nope.
  20. ashbury
    Thanks for clarifying. My recollection is of letter grades in school, at least past the early elementary years, being based on achievement, not on exceeding expectations. Ditto, though not assigned by letter, when receiving performance reviews at work. I find it odd that when the front office was shopping any and all veteran spare parts before the trading deadline, no one apparently offered much for the A- and B+ relievers in this rundown. But if you're using a different system, that's fair, and so be it. Good for Kintzler - a C from me or a B+ from you equally means he is in line for another year's salary from someone.
  21. ashbury
    I guess I still don't understand the grading system. Is it relative to expectations going into the season? Because, a dumpster-dive bullpen is going to come out well by this method, and yet be a below average group. The AL had an average ERA of 3.84 from relievers, and only Kintzler and (barely) Pressly managed to excel this mark. Since relief is characterized by Small Sample Size, you kind of expect at least one guy will have an ERA under 3 - not so with our team. I guess Kintzler counts as our SSS Wonder. I usually like to factor advanced stats into my opinions, but when I watch Kintzler and Boshers, the eye-test tells me they have a ceiling of "grind it out". You hold your breath while watching them, I don't care what their results this year look like in the box scores. The younger guys still have a higher ceiling than that, but so far haven't produced. Had this relief crew been grafted intact onto some contending team's staff, they would have been slaughtered in the postseason. Maybe O'Rourke would have come in to strike out a lefty batter, in an otherwise unmemorable loss on the way to a sweep; but you don't build your bullpen around your LOOGY anyway. I give Kintzler and Pressly a C each, and successively lower grades for everyone else. For grading purposes, I'm sorry if someone was used improperly, but a bullpen with too many pitchers who can't function unless used optimally becomes unnecessarily hard to manage.
  22. ashbury
    Socialists can be bloggers. I seen it happen, on behalf of Bernie, all last year.
  23. ashbury
    One of those ads looks like a Bad Idea to me. / The other is for a T-shirt company.
  24. ashbury
    What about Jorge Polanco for Jose De Leon, more or less straight up?
  25. ashbury
    Not at all. My reply was merely one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4cvM4zaUa4
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