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  1. snepp
    Couldn't this comment itself be construed as a negative?
  2. snepp
    What's wrong with poop jokes?
  3. snepp
    Hardy wasn't athletic enough to be in charge.
  4. snepp
    Second, I'll believe it when I see it.
  5. snepp
    The problem is that we guaranteed our version of Lannan, for no good reason, 2-years and $10 million.
  6. snepp
    We have.....and then there's.....oh, don't forget about......uh.....well..... It's only 290 miles to Wall Drug!
  7. snepp
    Thankfully I'm not a South Dakotan, I just live here.
  8. snepp
    I got a very respectable chuckle out of this.
  9. snepp
    Those same metric-minded fans are also likely to acknowledge that if he's OPS'ing somewhere in the low .700's while playing great defense he's still a pretty valuable player. If anything, the non-metric-minded are just as likely to tear into a zero-power player like Ben (the same types that rip a player like Mauer for having "no arh-bee-eyez."
  10. snepp
    My point, which I didn't do a very good job of making, is that there is a "Report Post" function available at the bottom of every post (the little icon with the exclamation point). This will bring any potentially problematic posts to the attention of the entire staff, and is much preferable to starting what could easily turn into a pissing match. Report the post, move along, and allow the admins to determine if any action is necessary. Thank you, that's exactly what I meant.
  11. snepp
    I thought I read a post last night where Seth said that the chat had to be postponed.
  12. snepp
    Moving a conversation along isn't a requirement, and there wasn't anything inappropriate about it. What is inappropriate was the unnecessary shot you took in your comment. If you have a problem with someone's posts, use the report function or message an administrator.
  13. snepp
    Our first statfreak of 2013!
  14. snepp
    The word of the month is, "marginal." Replacing Butera would be a marginal improvement, Marcum and Saunders would be marginal upgrades, getting a middle infielder with a pulse would be marginal, another reliever with a prayer of striking someone out is marginal, attendance improvements would be marginal. So on and so forth.
  15. snepp
    Like. Like. Like.
  16. snepp
    Fangraphs uses ERA- to go along with their FIP- and xFIP-. http://www.fangraphs.com/library/index.php/pitching/era-fip-xfip/ Intuitively it makes more sense (lower ERA is better), as well as the minus version correcting the calculation flaws that exist in the plus version.
  17. snepp
    I don't care about the arbitration portion of it, avoiding super-2 is largely irrelevant. With the way the payroll is heading and their obvious reluctance to spend any significant money in free agency, that first year of arb isn't going make any difference to the financials. Who else are they going to be paying in those years? Mauer, Worley, and a bunch of minimum wagers.
  18. snepp
    I don't think Clement can be considered a catcher anymore, can he?
  19. snepp
    But if you bring him north, and he plays well from day one, you'll have a hard time ever justifying a trip back to AAA. I think it would be highly frowned upon demoting a 4+ year player strictly for service time reasons.
  20. snepp
    Yes. Or two weeks in the middle of 2014, or two weeks at the end of 2015, etc, so long as those two weeks occur within the same season. The only potential wrinkle in the hypothetical 2018 scenario is that once 5 years of service are accrued a player earns the right to refuse demotion, even if they have options remaining. Hicks could theoretically refuse demotion in 2018 as he would have 5 full seasons at that point. (I am not 100% certain on the part about options, that's how I currently understand it) That's almost exactly what the Brewers ended up doing with Hardy. They demoted him to AAA shortly before he had a chance to accrue his 5th year of service (thus no refusal) and pushing his free agency back an additional season.
  21. snepp
    Super-2 status has nothing to do with years of control, it's strictly a way to provide additional players access to arbitration as a reward spending a large amount of time in the majors, but not enough to be a full season. Two weeks in AAA is all that it takes for the team to gain a 7th year. Edit: It actually takes three weeks, not two. A Mauer-like player that comes up on day 1, and never goes down, would have 3 seasons at minimum, and 3 arbitration seasons. Year 1: minimum Year 2: minimum Year 3: minimum Year 4: arbitration Year 5: arbitration Year 6: arbitration A player that spends a couple of weeks (three) in the minors would end up with this... Year 1: minimum (just short of one full year of service) Year 2: minimum (just short of two years service) Year 3: minimum (just short of three years service, qualifies for super-2 arb) Year 4: arbitration Year 5: arbitration Year 6: arbitration Year 7: arbitration There are roughly 184 days in a ML season, it takes 172 days to acquire one year of service. Once 172 days are accrued in any one season the counting stops. As long as a player accrues fewer than those 172 days in any of their first 6 seasons, they require a 7th season to push them over the free agency threshold.
  22. snepp
    I agree, it's not an indictment on Gardy as much as it is the usage of the bullpen by the league as a whole.
  23. snepp
    Yup, putting a better team on the field would be disastrous for attendance, both now, and in the future. Those marginal upgrades couldn't possibly help one bit.
  24. snepp
    Are you suggesting that a beat reporter should be nothing more than an organizational shill?
  25. snepp
    Which makes me sick that the best arm in the bullpen comes into the game with the bases empty 95% of the time, the 2nd best arm in the pen (Burton) comes in with the bases empty 85% of the time, while the worst strikeout rate in the pen entered with runners on base nearly 50% of the time.
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