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  1. old nurse
    Austin hits well against left handed pitching. The known problem was he strikes out nearly 40% of the time against RHP and has a swinging strike % of 18.. To get to league average on those numbers is a significant leap.
  2. old nurse
    Misread on the 4 point type. on the .559. My bad. .659 isn't anything to write home about either. Austin has not hit right handed pitching at the major league level. If the Yankees thought that he was able they would not have traded him and getting Voit. You don't give up 30 hr potential for a back of your rotation rental starter unless you do not think they can achieve that. Swinging strike rate and K% says he has a long ways to go to be major league. Now he does have value as a logy killer. If Tampa has enough roster flexibility they could add Austin because Choi is even more futile against lefties than Austin is against righties.
  3. old nurse
    Any player on the Twins that has played 1b at would be capable of producing Austin's career OPS of .559 against right handed pitching. As DH, even Castro has a better career OPS against right handed pitching. Right handed pitching is about 75% of the starters. For the other 25% that is quite luxury to have. I certainly did not say you in particular was. saying Cruz could play 1b. When people bring up Cruz's name when discussing DH/1b types it would imply that he could play that position.
  4. old nurse
    I do not know why people call Cruz and 1b together. He has not played there in his career. If he was going to play 1b he would have done so in Seattle instead of the collection of stiffs they played at first base during his time there.
  5. old nurse
    With MLB playing games in the rain the pitchers are going to have to learn the spitball.
  6. old nurse
    Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  7. old nurse
    Ah fandom. Garver has a couple of good games there is the love. When Garver has a couple bad games in a row, out will come the pitchforks.
  8. old nurse
    I don't think 3 games is hardly a sample size to have any idea what the manager or FO thinks. If Darver and Zstudillo catch well enough and hit well enough Castro ends up the odd man out.
  9. old nurse
    Hu?
  10. old nurse
    Long, but interesing https://deadspin.com/the-inside-story-of-how-the-ricketts-family-schemed-and-1831879476
  11. old nurse
    Is it worse to get to the World Series and lose than not even get close?
  12. old nurse
    Polonco is not a great base stealer despite having some speed. 600 or more PA a season for a player and nitpick the first game. Wow
  13. old nurse
    82-80 with a new manager, 80-82 with a retread, every manager ends up averaging 81-81. Either it does not matter who manages a club on average or one needs to look for a different statistic than wins and losses to asses a new manager than average wins.
  14. old nurse
    There should be no need to rest a bat only player like Cruz.
  15. old nurse
    50 or more vs 73. Meh. Not that big of difference. Much has been posted here about Molitor's use of the bullpen. About half of Hildenberger's negative value came in the second half of the season when Molitor used him 2 days in a row. So yes Hildenberger should have been used less. Not because he is an awful pitcher, but he was an overused pitcher.
  16. old nurse
    Barraclough and a half dozen other relievers were ahead of Hildenberger e race for the worst WPA.
  17. old nurse
    The AP reported it as Reed for Andreoli and Cash. I don't see anyone names Sash in the Giant's organization. Hopefully cash wasn't the change found in Zaidi pocket and can buy someone else useful to the team.
  18. old nurse
    27 outs in a game. Somebody has to pitch the ball well enough to get them Mental aspects of the game. Ron Davis did great as a set up pitcher. While the closer might not have the hardest batters, there is something about getting the last batters.
  19. old nurse
    Free agent market is no guarantee, either https://blogs.fangraphs.com/offseason-spending-on-relievers-isnt-working-out/ Curtiss has not had a good spring, Burdi and Anderson have been projected to make the roster. Expecting to be right all the time is an unrealistic expectation
  20. old nurse
    It is long past the event, what could you possibly win by showing her she is wrong at this point? You did not know at the time. Accept it and move on, just like you hope and pray she does for everything she could bring up about you for the resy of your life.
  21. old nurse
    The most expensive extension for a non closer relief pitcher is considered a team friendly deal?
  22. old nurse
    Considering the motion of pitches moving the mound in the middle of the season I think would totally mess up release points and mechanics.
  23. old nurse
    A couple years of record payroll and winning has not brought out the fans like the old days. That is problem number one. LDS losers. That core was not getting it done. Yonder Alonso. Big deal that they traded him Encarnation for Santana seems to be an even swap Gomes is a 31 year old catcher. Good, but not elite Aging. Indians have done well with most trades Why the angst
  24. old nurse
    Magill will have a job because when you look at WPA he was in the middle of the pack of the 250 relievers. In what fangraphs calls clutch, he was way above average. WPA/li says he is at the bottom third mark. Metrics for relievers is probably the trickiest thing to figure out.
  25. old nurse
    the tricky part is finding a team that thinks your 3-4s could be twos. Why else would a team trade quality for quantity except if it for a player being overpaid. I can't think of one that fits that description.
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