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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah just tallying up contributors like that also doesn't differentiate between a 3 WAR career, and a 30 WAR career. The Twins failing the last 10 years, IMO, has been lack of quality, not quantity. I agree they've taken more upside the last 2 drafts, so hopefully that will change.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    A bit soon to be passing judgement on Watson, don't you think?
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Sometimes the right move doesn't work. In fact, in baseball, it often doesn't work. If you pinch hit Sano for Gimenez and he strikes out, that doesn't prove it was the wrong move.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Sure, that's a fair stance. What's not fair is old nurse's stance that it's not even a worthy criticism. That it's so far from a valid critique, that anyone who even brings it up is just a complainer. I guess every thread should just be a bunch of people simultaneously applauding every single move the manager and FO make, I bet that would pull in a ton of traffic to a discussion board.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    "The complainers" he says about anyone who dare question a strategic move by the manager. A perfectly legit criticism, mind you, based on Boshers career platoon splits.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Seth, do you know, specifically, what they want Moya to work on yet in the minors?
  7. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think anyone has a problem with Boshers relieving Busenitz. I think the problem people have is letting him stay in to face the righty, after allowing both lefties to reach. Also, is it possible you misread something nurse? I've read the post you quoted a few times now, and I'm struggling to find where he demanded perfection.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Also, if you are including every player at a level, an actual prospect is never going to be "old" for their level, never. You have a bunch of career minor leaguers skewing that average age. 22 is not young for Ft Myers for an actual prospect. That's not necessarily Rookers fault, he was older even for a college pick, I don't think he should be higher right now. But, that said, he had another full year of seeing advanced SEC pitching. And that's a developmental advantage, so it's part of the context just the same.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    You are including a whole mix of guys with those numbers. Many of those have defensive value. Many of those were 18 year old draft picks or 16 year old FA's at one time. Most of those weren't top 40 picks. And very few, if any, were one of the best hitters in the SEC. But, of course, when i said agree to disagree, it was because I knew many would disagree. And, I'm far from saying he's been bad. He hasn't. But I don't consider his numbers at A+ to qualify as "stellar" either.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    That's not a compromise, that's my view as well, Rooker is just as big of unknown at this point as Diaz is.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I know YOU didn't, but the OP that Thrylos responded to did. That was what I was trying to point out before.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    We'll have to agree to disagree. Rooker hasn't shown enough yet to be called the long term answer at first base, not even close.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    And Rooker has? Because that's what Thrylos was responding to.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Correct, high A in Rooker' s case. But, I'll have to agree to disagree with anyone saying he's doing stellar there. An. 805 OPS from a 22 year old, bat only college draft pick isn't good, IMO.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Boshers has a career OPS against, 200 points higher vs RHH than LHH... and a HR rate 6x higher. Leaving him in against a RHH there, with a rested pen, was a bad call, IMO.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    I think this is backwards actually. I think good teams and bad teams are typically right around .500 in close games, but good teams blow teams out more often than they get blown out.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    What is there to buy? FIP is not subjective. It's a formula of things that actually happened (HR,K,BB), much like slugging % or batting average. All FIP is telling you is how well the pitcher controlled the things he has control over, that's it. It's set on the same scale as ERA, but that's the only thing it has in common, there are no "theoretical runs" that it is claiming happened. Again, it's not a subjective metric like WAR that can be tweaked or manipulated. It's an objective stat like batting average or slugging percentage. It can only show what happened, there is nothing anyone can do to make it show anything other than the events on the field that are computed to give a resulting measurement. If someone thinks it's a worthless stat, they are free to ignore it, just like any other stat, otherwise I'm not sure what you are expecting.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    If the point was to reflect ERA, then FIP wouldn't exist. That's not the point. FIP is just an algorithm of what happened, like slugging percentage. It's not a subjective stat like defensive runs saved or WAR. FIP does tell you what happened on the field (xFIP on the other hand baggers bakes in assumptions), it just tells you something different than ERA. It doesn't use earned runs like ERA does, it uses HR's, walks, and strike outs, so I'm not sure why you are expecting it to reflect the fact that he hasn't given up any runs.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Here are Mike Trout's splits: Empty: .308/.412/.629 Men on: .392/.542/.784 I think someone ought to tell these pitchers to be more careful with men on base! Oh wait, it's not that easy?
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Again, if they are more careful with men on base, then his OBP should be higher. It's not. These guys are playing for very high stakes. If they've found a way to pitch Dozier that works that well, it would behoove them to pitch that way all the time. Of course pitchers TRY to pitch more carefully with men on base. The problem, as someone with your experience knows, is that baseball is hard, and guys can't always hit their spot at will. Put it this way: If however they are pitching him lowers his average, OBP, AND slugging, then what is the downside to just pitching him that way all the time? Also, none of that is data, that is all anecdotal. Lastly, all of us here watch and understand baseball. There is no need to be condescending.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    If the point is to try to reflect ERA, why not just use ERA?
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Well most of those things have nothing to do with whether there would be a conflict of interest or not. Example: You don't make decisions based on what fan forums are saying, that's just noise.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    I think a 25 man, plus a few coaches, locker room, is actually much more akin to a small family business than it is a corporate structure. I think in this case it wouldn't be an issue, and not even a little bit, IMO. If Joe was an up and comer, then maybe I could see a problem, but at this point in his career - he's made his money, he's had a full career. Im just struggling to see a specific (people have only given vague, general feelings) decision that could cause an issue. In baseball, the stats are there for everyone to see, so I think it's a lot easier for everyone to be mostly on the same page, without second guessing ("what does the boss see in this guy that nobody else does"). Most of these guys have played for Jake at one time or another. If he's the leader that everyone raves about, I just don't think it would be an issue. Of course, I could be wrong, but I think Jake has always had aspirations to be an MLB manager. That being the case, I don't think he would stay in our organization this long if he got the feeling he would always be a non candidate as long as Joe is here.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Well I guess every group is different. I've brought 2 different family members aboard in the 7 years that I've owned my business and the only awkwardness it brought was remembering to call my father by his name while on the job. Like I said, it depends how professional those involved are. If you are open, honest and fair 100% of the time, your team will never doubt your intentions. If someone is not a good leader, well, in that case it won't matter, they'll fail either way.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    And even if Joe doesn't like it, Jake is the older brother. From someone with younger brothers, it's not going to bother Jake one bit to irritate his little bro.
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