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  1. jimmer
    The guy was a 1.1 WAR pitcher going into last night. I hadn't even seen the results of the game when I wrote that. He is not impressive. His peripherals are nothing special. His FIP is in the 4s, he doesn't K people. He's an average starter at best, yet some around here talk as if he's awesome. He'll be 28 before the calendar flips 2016. He is what he is right now and it certainly isn't anything jaw-dropping. There are people on this site saying they wouldn't trade him for TULO! Oh please, indeed.
  2. jimmer
    Plenty of shortstops have played the position well past 33. I'm not going to assume he moves off shortstop in his early 30s. That's a bad bet I wouldn't be willing to take.
  3. jimmer
    In any event, all of this is moot. No chance at all we'd get Tulo.
  4. jimmer
    They already hurt their short term goals by shoving May in the bullpen.
  5. jimmer
    I'll be shocked if he ever shows the skills to be a true #2.
  6. jimmer
    Tulo is an actual proven top notch player, and has been for a decade, The 'young' Gibson (who will be 28 going into the offseason) hasn't shown himself to be anything more than average at best.
  7. jimmer
    When we start talking about Tulo being an older player, does it matter that Tulo is only three years older than Gibson? And that he's actually a proven top notch player for a decade as opposed to a pitcher who hasn't shown himself to be anything more than average at best?
  8. jimmer
    I see absolutely nothing special about Gibson at all. He turns 28 this year, not 22 or 23. He is what he is at this point and it's nothing special at all. If HE is going to be the centerpiece of this rotation for year to come, we are boned.
  9. jimmer
    people seem thrilled with Gibson too. some things make no sense.
  10. jimmer
    How has Hanley looked this year? Tulo has an AWAY OPS over .819 this year, and Tulo's away OPS has been heavily affected by NL West parks, as I've shown. Additionally, he can still play shortstop, which Ramirez can't. Ramirez can't play anywhere and to say he was a below average shortstop when he did play there would be generous. It would give him too much credit. So we'd still need a shortstop. Career wRC+ of 125 for Tulo and 131 for Hanley. One has been a quality defender most of his career, they other, yeah, not so much. Tulo has been and is still a much better player.
  11. jimmer
    I don't know any Escobar Tulowitzki who plays for the Rockies so I don't think we should trade for him :-)
  12. jimmer
    Almost half of Tulo's away games have been played in NL West parks (247 of his 521 away games played) and he has, roughly, a .765 OPS combined in those parks. His overall Away OPS is .819. That makes his OPS at those four parks almost 55 points lower than his overall AWAY OPS. That means away from the four NL West parks he plays away games in, he's roughly 55 points higher than his overall AWAY OPS...around .870. Or, to look at it another way, around 100 point swing in OPS. Tulo's AWAY OPS is greatly affected by the amount of away games played in the NL West because almost half of his away games have been played in those parks, and in those parks he has a combined OPS in the .760s. It seriously drags down the overall AWAY OPS to .819. BTW, career wRC+ Home 131, Away 119. Not such a huge difference. Most players do better at home.
  13. jimmer
    Was there anywhere in my posts to suggest Coors didn't have an effect?
  14. jimmer
    If the Twins offered just Gibson for Tulo, the laughing from the Rockies front office (and around baseball if others found out), could be heard to the far reaches of the world.
  15. jimmer
    Yeah, you're mixing the very few star type players the Rockies have had with the plethora of scrubs they've had mixed in with the few stars. Tulo's away numbers as a shortstop are top of the line. And he's had to play a bunch of his away games in decidedly pitcher's parks. He would have seen a drop of his career slashline if he played somewhere else, for sure, but he still would have been the best hitting shortstop in baseball over that time.
  16. jimmer
    I'm not worried about the BA stat, so yeah, Coors inflates that. That's good. I'm saying if we think Tulo would have been some average overall hitting shortstop if he didn't play half his games at Coors, which the post I was responding to seemed to suggest, then I think that's very untrue.
  17. jimmer
    We know what Tulo is, we are guessing what those three will be. This team, and it's fans, have a history of over-rating our prospects by a sizable amount. I often wonder how many quality players we have missed out on over the years as our team hoarded prospects that turned out to be extremely disappointing.
  18. jimmer
    His career away OPS is .813. An .813 OPS from a quality defender at the shortstop position is special (and this is the FIRST season he hasn't shown good skills there. One season is not a trend).There are only two qualifying shortstops who have an OPS of .813 or better this season and he is one of them (with the best one by far). People said the same thing about Holliday when he left Coors. Ooops. People think it's only about leaving Coors, but it's also about playing a ton of games in parks like Petco, Dodger Stadium and AT&T. Not exactly hitters parks over the course of his career and not to mention against quality pitching staffs from those teams to boot on a regular basis.Tulo is a great hitter, period. And he's a leader, he has the intangibles too while still being a great player. Even if he played 120 games a season, 120 games of him and 42 from others still makes the best shortstop situation. At least for another couple years until Correa takes his belt.
  19. jimmer
    true.
  20. jimmer
    Tulo for Polanco,May and Rosario? Sign me up. Rockies would never take such a small haul.
  21. jimmer
    Getting Tulo would be awesome. And smart.
  22. jimmer
    I've been on the Dozier bandwagon since well before he hit the majors.
  23. jimmer
    Torii Hunter. He has taught the whole team how to win!
  24. jimmer
    In baseball, a sacrifice fly is a batted ball that statisfies four criteria: -There are fewer than two outs when the ball is hit. -The ball is hit to the outfield (fair or foul), or to infield foul territory. -The batter is put out because an outfielder (or an infielder running in the outfield, or foul territory) catches the ball on the fly (alternatively if the batter would have been out if not for an error or if the outfielder drops the ball and another runner is put out). -A runner who is already on base scores on the play.
  25. jimmer
    'Show Dick some respect!'-Bender
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