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  1. USAFChief
    Wer's on first?
  2. USAFChief
    2 out RBI. How you win games.
  3. USAFChief
    https://youtu.be/gQQtgx4iG8E
  4. USAFChief
    I guess I didn't even know a person COULD look that up.
  5. USAFChief
    Somewhere between now and the end of the game.
  6. USAFChief
    Rocco, pregame, responding to a question about when we might see Wallner: "Wallner? We already have LH hitting outfielders." Hahahahahahahaha.
  7. USAFChief
    No sir. Not the answer the judges were looking for.
  8. USAFChief
    Today's pop quiz: What do you get when you cross a polar bear with a seal?
  9. USAFChief
    Wer Julien?
  10. USAFChief
    OPS also assumes all OBP is created equally, which isn't true. Getting on base via a hit is much more valuable than via a walk. Even a single helps create more runs than a walk.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. USAFChief
    Concur
  14. USAFChief
    Actually, .189. He's amassed 30 RBI already too!!
  15. USAFChief
    Not a particularly well researched or informative article.
  16. USAFChief
    "Yes, it is possible for a win to feel gross." Hahaha...precisely.
  17. 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.
  18. USAFChief
    That's all??
  19. USAFChief
    I think Oakland is starting another lefty, if so, I expect so.
  20. USAFChief
    Winnah. Feels more like a loss, somehow. But. Winnah.
  21. USAFChief
    Duran has been pretty ... unremarkable for a while now.
  22. USAFChief
    Ha. No. He's obviously reading TD and using my analysis.
  23. USAFChief
    Julien is an adventure on every ball he touches.
  24. USAFChief
    Happy Gallo gets the go-ahead dinger. Sad it'll buy him another 100 PAs.
  25. USAFChief
    Shocked. Shocked Buxton Ks there
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