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  1. Mr. Brooks
    I'm not a fan of deciding roster spots based on practice games, against a mix of actual mlb/milb players, when guys are often working on specific things. That's not to say nothing can be gleaned from ST, but I hope they have more analysis going into the roster decision than that.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    How much did they get from media deals back in the day? How much now? MLB revenue has increased every year, any money lost from lower attendance has been more than made up from other avenues.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    NFL players are guaranteed a minimum of 47% of revenue. NBA is 49%, NHL is 50%. NFL seems right in line with the other cap/floor leagues to me.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Only about 27% of mlb revenue comes from attendance, so I'm not sure dropping attendance spells doom for mlb revenue.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Speaking of ol Mitch, at least now they're admitting it: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t think Election Day should be a federal holiday because that would give Democrats too much power. McConnell took to the Senate floor Wednesday to rail against HR 1, the sweeping anti-corruption proposal House Democrats have put forward as their first bill in the majority. Among many other measures, it proposes making Election Day a federal holiday and encourages private sector businesses to do the same. McConnell, who calls the bill the “Democratic Politician Protection Act,” sees that as a “power grab.” “Just what America needs, another paid holiday and a bunch of government workers being paid to go out and work ... [on Democratic] campaigns,” he snarked on the Senate floor. “This is the Democrat plan to restore democracy? ... A power grab.”
  6. Mr. Brooks
    That isn't how wRC+ is measured. It's not the same scale as DRS. They can't be used comparatively to measure number of runs created or saved.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    It's not just for showing up though. If you could field 9 Yadier Molina's, they'd all have different WAR's, but CF Molina would likely have the WORST. You have to be able to field the position well enough for the positional bonus to outweigh your performance compared to other players at that position.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah, I saw parts of the south metro were out. That's tough on a night like last night.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    To me, this speaks more to the state of how the DH position is currently being used league wide. I think any team could find a .780 OPS guy that can't play anywhere else... if they wanted to. But most teams aren't doing that (I don't think). Most teams are using position players at DH. Either to provide added depth and versatility, or to cycle through as mini off days. Where is Kennys Vargas playing these days?
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Filler, literally by definition, does not improve the organization no matter where it comes from. No team can have 200 players in the organization that can all have even the faintest hope of a cup of mlb coffee. Everyone needs bodies to fill out 7 or more rosters. It makes sense to me, to sign filler that you are familiar with.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    In comparison to his ranking on the other outlets, I'd guess.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Neither of our vehicles would start this morning. Killed the batteries very quickly trying. Don't own a booster or charger, hoping we can find a neighbor who does. Not a huge deal for me. I work outside, so I wasn't going to be working either way, but wife can't miss work again tomorrow. Furnace struggling to keep up. The furnace is brand new last May, but the house is 141 years old. We've replaced windows and siding and beefed up the insulation over the last few years. But, the exterior walls are only 4 inch, so they can only be insulated so well, and most of the ceilings are cathedral style, without modern insulation space. Some areas of the house also don't have crawl spaces, so I can't insulate those floor systems until we tear up and redo flooring in the next year or two. Even with 2 space heaters and electric fireplace, the furnace is still running non stop. Managed to keep the pipes from freezing. But only by keeping the furthest faucet dripping, and setting an alarm overnight to run the bathtub and toilets every two hours. This is defintely the coldest sustained period I can recall. It's been an adventure. Not all bad though. We've been able to do some fun extreme cold weather science experiments with the kids.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    I'm fine with a DH only DH. I just don't think Palka's numbers are very good for a DH. I think every organization has 1 or 2 Palka's buried in AAAA, they don't have much value.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Fair enough. But as long as the other team gets to bat as well, I'm never going to ignore defense and position.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    No stat is perfect. But 27 HR's from a poor corner outfielder/DH without any other positive contribution is neither very valuable or impressive, and I think WAR actually reflects that. I think any team could easily find a no glove, no speed, no walk, no average guy anywhere that could hit 27 HR's.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Yes, he does. CF is graded on a more difficult scale than RF, so the positional adjustment is required to account for that. My Palka example is to refute his suggestion that you get a "bonus" just for showing up in the premium positions. Let me try a different angle. Without positional adjustment, a league average RF'er would have the same dWAR as a league average CF'er. But a league average CF'er is more valuable than a league average RF'er, and since WAR is attempting to measure value, it has to adjust to correct that. It would be more flawed than it is without positional adjustment, not less.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Yes. A player that can play centerfield is more valuable than a player who can only play a corner position. Palka wouldn't gain more value there than he would in a corner spot. He'd be expected to get to more balls in CF than he is in RF, so he'd lose more runs than he'd gain from the positional adjustment.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    The more that comes out on this "Russian roulette" police shooting, the more fishy it is to me. The suspect has a pretty severe black eye in his booking photo. The official story is that he did it to himself by head butting the rear window of a police cruiser. I'm struggling to understand the physics of how you severely bruise the UNDERSIDE of your eye by head butting a window. FWIW, the lawyer representing the family of the victim isn't buying any of this either. Good. I hope they get to the bottom of it.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Someone has to play CF, and it can't be Palka, so yes, there has to be a positional adjustment. A player that isn't good enough to play a premium position is going to lose more runs through poor performance than he gains from adjustment, so no you don't really get a bonus just for showing up. I also don't need WAR to see that Hicks is a really good player and Palka isn't, it just makes a handy tool to show roughly how big the delta is.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Asking Miami to take Castro back would likely require another pretty good prospect or two. Would be better off just eating the money and saving the additional prospects.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    I'm not arguing that. Harper would bring the team more wins, I'd love if they signed him. I was responding to this: "If we have a chance to get Harper, we should take it.Period.He makes all our pitchers better." Harper is a great hitter, but not much of a fielder. Just trying to get an idea of what you meant here.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    I don't really know where to put this. To be honest, I'm afraid this is some kind of Onion wannabe site, because it's just so unbelievable. https://www.statesman.com/news/20180120/texas-judge-interrupts-jury-says-god-told-him-defendant-is-not-guilty
  23. Mr. Brooks
    If losing an 0.6 bWAR corner outfielder (barely), is one of your biggest mistakes, then you're doing ok. Aaron Hicks was a 4.7 bWAR player last year. 3.9 the year before. They aren't even comparable. There is much more to baseball than hitting HR's. Palka does none of those other things. He's basically a replacement level player.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    I'll be annoyed if they convert Romero to relief, only to put him in a middle relief role. My preference is that he keep starting, but if not, he needs to be a late inning difference maker.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah well, the next time LENIII is critical of something the Twins don't want him to be critical of will be the first.
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