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  1. USAFChief
    Gallo is a hitter for which OPS is incredibly misleading. He fails to put the ball in play so often he more than cancels out the few HRs he hits. He has 16 HRs...and 30 RBI. Thirty. 3 sac flies IN HIS CAREER. SLG is only valuable in that it contributes to scoring runs. When you don't drive in runs, theoretical mumbo jumbo is just that...mumbo jumbo. It doesn't demonstrate some greater understanding of baseball. In fact, just the opposite. Gallo is not a good offensive player. He's awful. Much worse than a cursory glance at OPS indicates. His 16 HRs do not represent a positive for this offense.
  2. USAFChief
    Well, for one thing, someone somewhere decided HRs aren't balls in play. A Theoretical hitter hits 100 HRs in a row followed by a soft tapper back to the pitcher has a BABIP of .000.
  3. USAFChief
    Concur
  4. USAFChief
    Actually, .189. He's amassed 30 RBI already too!!
  5. USAFChief
    Not a particularly well researched or informative article.
  6. USAFChief
    "Yes, it is possible for a win to feel gross." Hahaha...precisely.
  7. USAFChief
    I agree, but "moneyball" (shorthand for analytics) most certainly does not. I don't believe this, but one of the tenets of current modern analytics is that neither pitchers nor hitters can control "balls in play." "Everyone's BABIP will regress to the mean." Quality of contact isn't controllable. That's one of the basic principles of FIP, for example. Ignore balls in play, because pitchers have no control over them.
  8. USAFChief
    FWIW, the Yankees are only averaging 2 runs per game since making the switch.
  9. USAFChief
    My last multi-city trip was Chicago (south side...yeesh), Detroit (VERY nice), and Milwaukee. Caught the Twins in 2 of 3, too.
  10. USAFChief
    They will because I always ask Canadian Border Patrol if they know how to spell Canada... C, eh? N, eh? D, eh? Totally slays, every time. It's getting back into the States that requires ingenuity.
  11. USAFChief
    I need six yet. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philly, Toronto, Cincinnati, and the Mets. .. Heh. Then start over.
  12. USAFChief
    Whether or not Molitor would be a good hitting coach--or would want the job--there's no chance he's put in that dugout as long as Rocco is managing. You don't undermine the current manager by putting the former one in the dugout. That would be a terrible position to put Rocco in. It would be viewed by everyone as a direct threat to Rocco's job.
  13. USAFChief
    I have a bucket list item of getting to every major league team's home field. Working on it, haven't been to Pittsburgh.
  14. USAFChief
    Center field tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday. 5 or 6 days a week.
  15. USAFChief
    Might have to knock Pittsburgh off my list.
  16. USAFChief
    Your definition of value has merit, but it's not the BBWAA definition of MVP. Maybe that's the disconnect here.
  17. USAFChief
    I don't know who should be the new hitting coach. But this much I DO know. When -outcomes are this putrid, -the manager goes on a rant about how things have to change, and -the hitters decide not inviting the hitting coach to the hitter's meeting is a potential solution, it's long past time for a change.
  18. USAFChief
    Those were both from Mrs Chief.
  19. USAFChief
    I'm pretty reluctant to cut the FO any slack regarding Kepler and Gallo. I think they're achieving pretty much exactly what SHOULD HAVE been forecast. Maybe even a little more than an honest forecast in Gallo's case, considering his tank jobs in NY and LA. Kepler actually has a slightly higher OPS than last year, as well. He's been an above average hitter in 2019 and 2020s 60 game season. That's it. Nobody in the FO should be surprised. Disappointed, ok. But these outcomes should have been smack dab in the middle of any forecast range.
  20. USAFChief
    Great points...except... I don't think you're getting anything for Gallo or Kepler even IF you pay their salaries I mean, if they can't help THIS offense, which contender has a need for them?
  21. USAFChief
    If we get to wait until seeing the result of a PA before deciding which is best, then I choose homers. They're better than everything else. But if we're talking about PAs that haven't happened yet, and choosing between Ks and balls in play, give me balls in play. As an outcome, they're better than Ks, even if sometimes a ball in play results in 2 or 3 outs. Disagree? Let's have a computer sequence 1000 consecutive random balls in play, restarting every third out, and 1000 Ks, again restarting after every third out, and see which results in more runs scored.
  22. USAFChief
    I'd start by DFAing Gallo. I'd have done that a while ago. .167/.281/.368 since May 1. Yeesh. Not to mention the damage to my blood pressure watching him K 3 times per evening. And I've already had to replace my TV twice (after a Corona bottle somehow "shattered" the screen at 80 MPH following a yet another failed RBI opportunity from a swing and a miss at a shoulder high FB.)
  23. USAFChief
    Gallo certainly has more pop, but he doesn't "get on base" more than Kepler. 2023 OBP Kepler .300 Gallo .302 Gallo draws more walks, Kepler gets a few more hits.
  24. USAFChief
    Agree on the published criteria for MVP. But I don't think Miranda has played enough to be "LVP." I guess you can argue he hasn't played enough BECAUSE he's been so bad, but for my money, Buxton has been "least valuable." He's got the 2nd most PAs, has just 54 hits and has a paltry 34 RBI batting in a production spot all year, all while providing zero defensive contribution. Not a single inning. He's been as responsible for the mediocre W/L record as anyone on the team. Massive playing time, dismal results.
  25. USAFChief
    Goldschmidt. Easy call.
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