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  1. old nurse
    All is still pending a bankruptcy judge’s decision. 115 million does not go far in an 8+ billion bankruptcy
  2. old nurse
    Thinking that fans are going to drive 2-3 hours each way is a fatal flaw in your argument. Going to a game becomes a ay trip, not an evening’s entertainment. That is not saying the other guy is right
  3. old nurse
    There are two factors slowing down free agency. The failures of the Mets and Padres last year is one. San Diego had to borrow money to make payroll. Fan attendance was even up by about 1 million fans from before the pandemic an spending spree started. Teams are not going into red ink. The other thing is 5/185 and 10/300+. If the pitcher think they can get DeGrom kind of money they are not going to be a quick signing.. Montgomery has had consistently good outcomes, but he is no DeGrom. Snell has ha inconsistent outcomes. Bellinger had 2 down years before having a great season. That is the delay for signing him. What are you going to get.
  4. old nurse
    For extension to work you still need to have the pitches in the first place. Michael Tonkin, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Smithson were all real tall and should have has great extension. It did not matter.
  5. old nurse
    Those ranking were for fantasy sports. That is a different agenda than winning playoff baseball games.
  6. old nurse
    B war, not fWAR. In 1988 they left him out for mop up work in a couple games they were losing and let him get hammered when he had nothing.
  7. old nurse
    Negative WAR for what amounts to. Smallish sample size. Frankie Rodrigues, Scott Already, Rick Nolasco, Rich Robinson, Jim Deshailes and Pt Mahomes all had multiple seasons to stink in. One could have included Cole DeVries but I still remember Thorlos’s piece on how he could be an Ace. One could always count on sooner or later a very usual statistical take from Thorlos
  8. old nurse
    McCarty’s name is in red. All you have to do is click on it and you will have an answer
  9. old nurse
    From 1962 to 1969 Versailles accumulated 14 fWAR that was 12 best over that time frame. In the context of the times he always was an adequate shortstop.
  10. old nurse
    The last top 10 to have success in Oakland was Barry Zito unless you clue Murray’s success in contracts in football
  11. old nurse
    Good thing you were not tying to juggle lit torches.
  12. old nurse
    Pitch framing evidently is not important
  13. old nurse
    BABIP is luck is one of those fallacies people have said so many times people believe it. LD% correlates highly with a high BABIP. FB% and IFFB is a negative correlation . Speed is a contributing factor. All the information is out there. BABIP for pitchers is normalized at about 1000 innings. Of course than they get injured and there is a new normal
  14. old nurse
    50% reach their 50th percentile projection providing they have met a certain threshold of innings or AB. Never mind that innings and AB were also projected. So if a position player plays manages to play a half of a season, they count in looking at accuracy, but otherwise no. I suppose being right half the time when things work out well enough it is a good system. I wouldn’t use it for anything other than entertainment
  15. old nurse
    Couldn’t ask for a better way to start your career than a September call up to face the Whites Sox, Angels, Athletics and Royals. Forever on his baseball card will be a year of impressive stats. For his finer work, Detroit sent him to the minors after his last start
  16. old nurse
    In theory you need a 6/7/8 starter in AAA for the major league team. There also needs to be a AAAA disaster starter. That leaves 2 development slots open Festa and SWR would be 6/7 . Dobnak is the AAAA stater. Ohl might be your development starter. They really don’t have anyone else. That leaves 2 holes
  17. old nurse
    A faster mediocre fastball is still mediocre
  18. old nurse
    Odorizzi spent last year on the dl after shoulder debridement. A signing of him would probably mean a start on the minor league dl as he builds back up. Is the team magnanimous enough for his short term of service to pay him to rehab at minor league pay, with an opt out? Brad Keller. Ground ball pitcher. Not the usual Falvey pitcher. He has quite a few years in a row as a back end starter. His ceiling is back end starter. Surely if your hope to resurrect someone’s career, let it at least be someone with a higher ceiling Pomeranz by all means sign him he was effective when healthy. Last healthy was 6 years ago. Players bounce back all the time. Look at Buxton
  19. old nurse
    It is disheartening that over the age of 30 relievers who have spent parts of 7-8 years at the major league level that still have years of arbitration eligibility left go on to have a career year after have determined they would not be useful for your bullpen, Can’t wait for the reaction if Pagan has a career year fo the Reds
  20. old nurse
    The hyperbole starts early with this one. There are probably 10 teams who are sure their top 9 players are better than the listed 9 Twins. Then there are 9 teams who think their top 9 are better, then there is Oakland who would go “yeah, but we don’t have that king of money
  21. old nurse
    I have worked with big egos. Anybody who has working in some of the places I have worked had huge egos. To deals with what you must deal with in healthcare one must have a strong constitution I did not describe people with huge egos. I have not worked in some back office. Out of civility, I will leave it at that Cobb went to the World Series his first 3 yeas and lost. The next 25 years not there. Josh Donaldson never there. Bauer went to the World Series with Cleveland. They were there due to Carasco, Clevinger and Kluber. Bauer hasn’t been back since, Bonds played in 1 WS in 22 years. Ricky Henderson played in one more World Series game than teams he played for.
  22. old nurse
    There was a player years ago from rural Minnesota who played in New York briefly I can’t remember his name but he said something about it being a different world. Living in a large city versus living in a city where you can easily escape the city can mean a lot to some. The culture in New York wasn’t to the liking of some people I knew who had to travel to the city
  23. old nurse
    I work in a team environment. It really sucks to be stuck with the non team player, narcissistic, biting personality. Especially when they know how to suck up.
  24. old nurse
    Gallo hit well before going to the Ya knees. He did not do that with the Yankees he is not the first player nor the last player to stink for the Yankees after playing well elsewhere. Sony Gray, Carl Pavano recovered to some success. Given Gallo isn’t old, if he returned to the .800-.850 range with his OPS he woul have been a steal. Risk/reward
  25. old nurse
    The fallacy that will never die is that a player would have become for the original team what they became for the next team.
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