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  1. jimmer
    You mean the baseball people who are stuck in old traditions and beliefs who like to deflect their poor performance by putting the attention on the perceived 'diss' instead of where the attention belongs which is them giving up a HR in a key situation?
  2. jimmer
    Yeah, it's amazing how many times our announcers like to point out how walking the first batter of an inning is so horrible. My question always is, 'How is it any worse than giving up a single (not to mention a 2B, 3B or HR). Why single out the walk as blasphemy? Perhaps it's the delusion that a walk is always the fault of the pitcher as opposed to sometimes the result of a very good plate appearance?
  3. jimmer
    ah, I see. your guy is definitely the best defensive shortstop. took me awhile to work through all that. :-)
  4. jimmer
    Oh you said the same division. Correa is in the AL West, Tulo is in the Al East.
  5. jimmer
    Tulo is? We'll see. :-) And I know you're messing with me, but for me it's not really about who is the best at their position when it comes to being my favorite players. I love Tulo's overall game and leadership. I love Arenado's overall game, especially his defense. I love Span's under-rated defense and the professional way he goes about his game. Span has been very under-rated in his career.
  6. jimmer
    Correa is quickly becoming my favorite player in baseball. Not quite there, but getting there. He's probably in my top 5, with Tulo, Span, Arenado being 1-2-3. Love Correa's approach, love his presence.
  7. jimmer
    Forgot to mention, he also lead the league in wRC+. So that's first in the AL in WAR, wRC+, SLG%, OPS, OPS+, and 2nd in OBP. Only 9th out of 21 CFs in DRS. Slacker.
  8. jimmer
    I think he's clearly still the best in the game.
  9. jimmer
    Honestly, I'm not sure Rosario would have to pull a Santana to show he's not a sure fire LF (or starter at all). He wasn't nearly the offensive force Santana was when Santana posted the unsustainable BABIP in 2014. 21 LF in baseball had 450 or more PAs. His OBP was like .289. 20th out of 21. He had a 98 wRC+. That tied him with Revere for 16th. And he also had a fairly high BABIP which will need to be watched (not 2014 Santana high, but still high). Having said that, he finished tied for 10th out of 21 in WAR. So if he walks a bit more, Ks a bit less, even a drop in BABIP won't hurt him too much. Defense has to stay awesome.
  10. jimmer
    Harper was absolutely a prodigy.
  11. jimmer
    I think I read that Trout has more WAR than anyone from '10-15 even though he didn't become a full time player until 2012. He should have more than one MVP, and the one he DID get was his worst year.
  12. jimmer
    Trout had a 9.0 WAR last year, leading the AL. He led the league in SLG, OPS and OPS+. Slacker ONLY finished second in OBP (to Miggy) with a paltry .402 OBP. And yet, 2nd in MVP to my preseason pick for MVP going into 2015, Donaldson. That's MY kind of trending downwards.
  13. jimmer
    This site has had a ton of Mauer bashing on it for quite some time. He's constantly been slammed no matter what or who the thread is about. Finding a reason to slam Mauer and blame him and/or his contract for our woes is like a sport in here. Yes, finally a comment was made by the powers that be that maybe enough is enough in regards to him until something new to slam him about comes along. Let's not act as if it's never been allowed. He's taken more grief than all other Twins players combined on this site.
  14. jimmer
    exactly.
  15. jimmer
    Yeah, that bat flip was awesome. It made that HR moment very memorable and even some serious old school people in the media seemed to enjoy that flip. I'll take that kind of disgraceful player on my team any day.
  16. jimmer
    I disagree with the notion that fans/players that don't agree with so many of the unwritten rules (like hurting someone because they dared show emotion for doing something good) somehow don't have respect for the history and tradition of the game. You can respect the game's history and tradition while still wanting it to evolve.
  17. jimmer
    MLB teams play 10 times as many games as an NFL team and about twice as many as both NBA and Hockey teams. Seating available at hockey and NBA games is much less than baseball stadiums. The only league that has more seating than MLB fields are NFL stadiums, but each NFL team only gets 8 home games each during a regular season (1/10 of the games each home team get in MLB). So basically it seems there are more tickets available for the baseball games than all the others combined. Not to mention MLB prices are much less because each team have 81 regular season games to get fans in the gate. But all that together, and I'm not sure we can say baseball is more popular because of tickets sales comparison. NFL is king in this country.
  18. jimmer
    Plouffe's WAR the last two year: 6.1, Freese: 4.3. Freese is very soon to be 33. Plouffe turns 30 this season.
  19. jimmer
    Okay by me. But I wouldn't want to limit it to just those. Teammates who start fights with other teammates, especially for all to see, is just horrible form. I couldn't respect anyone as a leader who did that. Grown ups should know better than to result to that. And before people say these guys play a kids game and it's therefore okay, yeah, sorry, I just cant agree with that. They already have enough privileges before saying assault is okay too.
  20. jimmer
    Just to make sure I get what you're saying. Are you asking how I felt about Harper talking about Papelbon choking him to the media?
  21. jimmer
    Should he have lied? Or said no comment(where people would have figured what he meant anyway),. I found nothing wrong with him saying he didn't like what Papelbon did because first, it's ridiculous to think it's okay for a pitcher to throw 90+ at a defenseless batter from so close because he's butthurt from getting beaten on a pitch. Second, because teammates of the pitcher usually wind up getting hit in retribution.
  22. jimmer
    The show-makers mentioned the reason they changed it was because fans loved the Sansa character and didn't want to have her doing nothing forever (like she does in the books) or be completely off screen for so long (like Bran). 'Besides, Cogman (a writer-producer) pointed out: “You have this storyline with Ramsay. Do you have one of your leading ladies—who is an incredibly talented actor who we’ve followed for five years and viewers love and adore—do it? Or do you bring in a new character to do it? To me, the question answers itself: You use the character the audience is invested in.” Notice how much more likable Tyrion is in the show? Because fans of the show love him so much the writers made him more likable. I agree with you, though, about Sansa. Can't stand her. But I believe if it had been Jayne, like in the book, way less rage (if any rage) would have occurred among so many people (about a fictional show, BTW).
  23. jimmer
    nor does starting a fight on the field or choking a teammate :-)
  24. jimmer
    I think a lot people had a real hard time with the scene because it was Sansa, probably the best loved (for whatever reason) female character on the show. Let's face it, worse has happened to female and male characters on this show. It certainly wasn't out of character for Ramsey to do that, just ask Reek,er, I mean Theon.
  25. jimmer
    Wasn't meant that way. I was just pointing out that it's not clear that Rosario is a sure fire starting type player based on the stat you used to say he was. I can see both sides of the argument myself. I think I'll just wait to see how he does this year, myself. He's a starter for us this season, regardless. At least to start the season. Even if all he ends up being is a 4th OF, 4th OFs have value too. Especially quality defensive guys like Dyson. Rosario could be that guy since a big chunk of his WAR came from defense. And only 3 LF had more DRS and two of them had WAY more innings out there in LF.
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