Richie the Rally Goat
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Welcome! This is a challenging question! What makes it difficult are 2 main issues to me. 1) Pitchers approach their job differently, in terms of how they get their outs. “Good” is always compared to alternatives. In the box you’ll see strike outs, walks, hits, etc. but ultimately in the box it’s about runs and outs for me. 2) Baseball is a marathon season, a box score for a game, is just that one game, but in a 162 game season, everyone is going to have good games and bad games. Generally I don’t put a ton of weight on a box score, I generally prefer statistics over seasons and season-to-date. There are three main types of these stats. 1) counting stats (home runs, walks, strike outs). 2) Rate stats (strike out %, walk %, OPS, batting average, earned run average). 3) rank stats, these tell you how the player does relative to the league (they have usually have a + sign next to their name like OPS+. You can get these from many sources, the two that get quoted here most frequently are Fangraphs and Baseball Reference. These sites will be a bit overwhelming at first, but they both have glossaries for defining how they calculate the stats and what they mean.
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Buxton on pace for 162 home run seems kinda conservative- 28 replies
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Anti jinx? and no, I’m not going to call you crazy again, I’ve hit enough off the tee and need to start hitting against pitchers
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You’re crazy
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I don’t think of Jeffers as a real good hitter, and Arraez is roughly league average against Lefties. looking up the splits at fangraphs Jeffers hits well against lefties (120ish plate appearances )
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Jeffers DH… fascinating
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That was the gist of Baldelli’s quote in the post game. Something to the effect of they followed the plan, but missed on location of some fastballs over the middle
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Current TV, regardless the year
Richie the Rally Goat replied to Vanimal46's topic in The Sports Bar
Spell check got you, I believe and agreed Walton Goggins is a treasure, though I am not up to date on the shows, I’m adding to me queue -
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Richie the Rally Goat replied to Vanimal46's topic in The Sports Bar
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Royce “Sticky Fingers” Lewis… keep swiping those bags!
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https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/players/2164747/tyler-duffey/splits/2021/ according to CBS he was 3 saves in 5 opportunities, it doesn’t jive w/ FG, but maybe CBS ignores 2 inning saves?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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THIS! Two games, one save opportunity. They’ll give a few guys a shot, including Duffey again, before deciding who the closer(s) will be.
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Forgiven, but not forgotten… I will remember this jinx for weeks
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I blame you!
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Rats!
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Following via game day, hoping for some clarification: Kiriloff struck out on a pitch the catcher couldn’t hold on to? Then he catcher threw it into the outfield?
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I like the longer pages
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WCCO 830 AM is the Twins radio station in Minnesota. after listening, they cut away to syndicated blather after the first inning
