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    If you've never seen this one before, check out a very loving tribute (almost note-for-note rendition). It has to be fake in some way or other, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_torOTK5qc
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    The MLBTR article stated that, like any veteran with a certain number of service years, he could refuse an outright assignment and choose free agency. But would that mean forfeiting the remainder of his contract and hoping for the same or better from another team? The odds of that are so low as to not be worth mentioning in print, I would have thought.
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    In the park, presumably. I believe you were ninja'd too. I have to resort to Barenaked Ladies rather than Chicago for a title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3xXlXSOKk
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    Sheridan said it of Texas. Probably every soldier who was stationed in or passed through Arizona has said it about that place, though. / ninja'd oh well
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    I dunno. I grew up in Indiana and you lived there for a good while, and Chief (among others on TD) knows AZ. We have, in other words, multiple witnesses as to the blackholishness of those two states.
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    If you keep saving up that daylight for years on end, without some kind of relief valve there might eventually be a rip in the space-time continuum.
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    I'm saving up a good one for after the first 66 questions.
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    Not since the 2014 draft, anyway.
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    Concur. It's fine to sign a few arms like this during the off-season, to see what they might have to offer, through continued tinkering with adding a pitch or changing a delivery. But they need to dominate at AAA, for it to pay off in a call to the majors. If somehow our evaluators are seeing something beyond his numbers, it will be a PhD course in Inside Baseball and I will gladly tip my cap to them if it pays off; but I am not expecting this outcome. To add to my dismay, when I look up Austin Adams on b-r.com, I pick the wrong one. "No, dummy, not the guy who pitched in the majors 2017-2019. The one who pitched 2014-2016." Oh, of course! Him!
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    She is obviously not up on all the nuances and intricacies of Sportsball.
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    Walden's about 20 minutes north of me. By now, the pond's become a kiddie beach. Thoreau would be rolling over in his grave if he were alive to see it today.
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    No, but the first of him turned my stomach.* * Straight-up theft from Firesign Theater...
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    Tangentially, I just can't recommend strongly enough (yet again) the game Out Of The Park (OOTP). It pretty faithfully reflects all these roster rules, requiring the player to think, I'm sure at a simplified level, like a GM. It can be played a lot of different ways, but if you take on the challenge of building up a franchise, rather than play just one season, you have to look ahead multiple seasons so as to not be faced with a lot of roster clutter lacking either trade value or non-redundant worth to your team. It's my kryptonite.
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    And they'd be capped at around $16M in ticket revenue instead of what I believe to be around $44M. That would make a noticeable dent in the payroll budget, among other things.
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    Your wont. * I'm being that guy again - you're welcome.
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    Mrs Cranfill in fourth grade was pretty adamant that zero divided by zero was undefined - it could be anything therefore you couldn't choose any particular one as the answer. I found the uncertainty deeply unsatisfying. When I got to high school I found out that she had it right. Vasquez hit a batter and issued two walks. No hits, no AB, so his SLG isn't infinity. It's just undefined.
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    I don't think anyone can be certain. There isn't enough of a track-record of pitchers with an ERA of 13.50 that isn't small-sample-size, to know what happens if it goes up. Maybe it's good, for all we know, like how the numbers on an old odometer circle around back to zero or something. I just realized, the Twins should introduce a new radar gun, for use only when Jake Odorizzi is pitching: the Odo-Meter. They could get a lot of mileage out of that.
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    WHIP involves hits and walks, so it corresponds to the OBP part of OPS. What it doesn't include is power hitting, so it tells only part of the story. But the OBP part is pretty important - "is he recording outs?" - so WHIP is good. Of course any stats are going to be affected by the manager's usage, e.g. whether the pitcher is trusted to face the heart of the opponent's order. I'd never recommend relying on just one stat. But ERA for a reliever ranks pretty low for me on what to look at.
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    For batters, OPS has supplanted Batting Average as a quick-and-dirty way of seeing how someone's season is going. For relief pitchers, I'm surprised it hasn't also supplanted ERA, since the way earned runs are counted is so eccentric when partial innings are a large part of the landscape. But you're right about Morin and Harper, who have OPS-against of .357 and .482 respectively (none of these stats include this afternoon's game). It's still small-sample terrain, especially for Morin, but so far, they have succeeded beyond expectations. Magill's OPS-against is a less-impressive .707 and Duffey's is .720. Better than league-average, but their ERAs probably overstate their effectiveness. Hildenberger's OPS is .895, which would be a fine result for any slugger outside of a very select few. Mejia's is at .837, definitely below par. De Jong's is a silly 1.667, and Vazquez's can't even be calculated since he didn't record any outs. So their OPS conform to our intuitions about what they've accomplished. Blake Parker is quietly distinguishing himself, with a .510 OPS. More surprisingly, at least to me, is Trevor May with .529 - the hits he gives up are just so ill-timed, and usually that evens out during a season. To me, quick-and-dirty OPS tells you more about how the pitcher is succeeding in getting batters out, without the need to delve into inherited runners being dealt with by the next reliever that ERA calls into question.
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    Fifty percent strikeouts ... BA above .300 ... hm, that must be an amazing BABIP ... checking ... yep, in his 3 AAA games his BABIP is .667. We should definitely be drawing conclusions based on this very representative statistical sample that has had a full 3 games in which to stabilize.
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    Agreed, and I guess I was trying to further spoil his mood by indicating that a trip to just the 10-day wasn't an indication of good news.
  25. ashbury
    I hope our baseball team wins today by a lot.
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