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  1. jimmer
    For me, the bigger picture problem is the fact that a team can only have 25 players. Now that teams have five starting pitchers instead of four, and need larger bullpens (for reasons such as pitch counts limiting starters' innings and new info about effectiveness of starters the more times a lineup sees them) only having 25 spots on the roster severely limits options for a team like never before (especially AL teams which start a game with 10 players instead of 9.) A lot of teams simply cant afford to have a permanent DH due to further cramping roster flexibilty during the game. If baseball took a look at how the game has changed and then expanded rosters to 27 (while limiting the amount of pitcher to, say, 13) I think more teams employ a more permanent DH.
  2. jimmer
    oh his bandwagon is there, it is just steered towards starting 1st baseman.
  3. jimmer
    it depends on how the team is constructed. If a player can mash the ball, but clearly cant play defense (and is hurting his team by doing so), then DH is a perfectly reasonable spot for that player on an AL team, regardless of age. Thing is, with all the new info available to teams, teams are realizing how important defense is. The idea that a player shouldnt be a DH when he's young because other teams havent done that in the past is no reason to not do it. BTW, In the last three years, the team with the best UZR in MLB got to the World Series and the last two years the team with the best UZR in MLB won the World Series.
  4. jimmer
    I'm not sure I get what you mean? What about my post you were responding to gives a reason for wanting Cleveland to win?
  5. jimmer
    maddon already admitted he should have had someone warming up in the 8th inning of game 6 to use in the 9th inning.
  6. jimmer
    if you dont trust their filters, why use them to try and make a point? Makes no sense. Like saying, I have an opinion about something, and I'd like to prove it to you by using data I have zero faith in. P.S., I have no idea why you wouldn't trust Fangraphs' filter other than just not trusting info from Fangraphs in general.
  7. jimmer
    one of the biggest reasons is that he has probably the quickest delivery to the plate. If not the quickest, then very close to it.
  8. jimmer
    yeah, i dont know who 'we' would be in that sentence, but whomver it is who thought that certainly now knows no one is perfect. Of course, one wonders if not for his managing all season and/or in the NLDS and NLCS, if they ever get to the World Series to begin with. A small sample size in a couple playoff games doesnt negate work done in 162 game season, for players or managers. I will go ahead and give him credit for them being able to win the World Series.
  9. jimmer
    Didn't remind me of Gardy at all, first and foremost because I was watching a World Series not the ALDS :-) Francona is a better in-game tactician than Maddon. The two best overall managers in the game squared off and Francona out-managed him; however, the better team won. Even if Cleveland was fully loaded, I'm glad the best team in baseball won. They both deserved to win, but it's good to see the best team in baseball get rewarded for that awesome season.. Ironically, now that the Cubs won the W Series after 108 years, the team with the longest W Series title drought is now Cleveland Indians.
  10. jimmer
    Holland's FIP is like a half run lower than Santiago's Santiago has been helped by pitching in a a better park for pitchers. Holland has pitched in Ranger's park, an offensive haven. Not that I suggest having Holland, but he's probably a better pitcher than Santiago regardless of ERA.
  11. jimmer
    For clarification, are the roster riddles the new FO has to fix only roster holes or would one roster riddle be having Mauer, Vargas, Park, Plouffe and Sano? (Mostly underwhelming options and only 3 spots to put them)
  12. jimmer
    I'm looking forward to seeing the kind of decisions the new FO makes (like what position players are expected to play most of the time, what trades are made, when extensions are done, etc.)and the changes that get implemented (like in minor league development, philosophies, etc).
  13. jimmer
    my bad
  14. jimmer
    and they knew he wasn't when he showed up to spring training, but they decided to play him in the OF anyway ;-) BTW, are we even taking into account how bad he actually was and the fact that they decided to never put him back out there again? If it was such a good idea (and a success), why not put him back?
  15. jimmer
    Um, no, scorekeepers were much harder on fielders in the old days. They expected major leaguers to make major league plays until like 20 years ago (or around when money started getting ridiculous and players regularly called the scoring booths all ticked off that scorers dared give them an error.). Now I think the standard is high school level defense when it comes to scorers. For example, an OF is running full speed (for him) and a ball goes in and out of the glove. Guy didn't dive, ball just bounced right off hiss open face glove. The batter gets an inside the park HR, no error. Yeah, that happens. We got an inside the park HR that way this year. I also doubt Ozzie EVER gets 20 error in a season if he played today.
  16. jimmer
    In the 70s, how good were 3Bs at catching pop-ups in the IF? :-)
  17. jimmer
    no it isnt. DRS is adjusted by play (the number will move up and down through the season)and Sanos DRS stopped at -8 when he stopped playing RF. If he had kept playing, it likely ends up in the -20s. Unlike UZRs extrapolated number, UZR/150, there is no DRS/150
  18. jimmer
    and -8 DRS in only 313 innings in RF, which if extrapolated to, say, 950 innings or so would have had him dead last for qualifying RFs. Even without extrapolating, only two qualifing RFs had a DRS worse than -3. Bruce at #16 of 17 qualifying RFs had -11 DRS, of course, he played almost 4 times as many innings out there. 42 players had 300 or more innings in RF this year, 3 had a worse DRS. I already mentioned Bruce as one, another was Trumbo who had -9, and more than twice as many innings out there.
  19. jimmer
    http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160717/sports/160719177/ "He's probably gone from a 45 to a 55 defender over the past year. Maybe even a 60 defender. He's really gotten that good," Maddon said. "He's an above-average right fielder, left fielder, third baseman.' http://www.cubsrelated.com/2016/05/kris-bryant-20-now-featuring-elite.html 'Now we're into 2016 and Cubs fans are loving what they've seen from the new evolution of Kris Bryant, a versatile multi-positional athlete who runs hard and fast, bashes baseballs, takes walks... ...and plays truly elite defense? Yeah' http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/kris-bryant-might-be-the-best-all-around-player-in-the-nl/ 'Bryant’s unlikely to be as valuable defensively going forward as his current UZR suggests, but with 2,300 innings of very positive data and a lot of other markers that suggest Bryant utilizes his athleticism in exceptional ways, it seems likely that he’s at least an above average defender.' http://thecomeback.com/theoutsidecorner/2016-articles/kris-bryant-becoming-elite-defender.html 'In Bryant’s case, though, it’s becoming evident that we’re seeing enough to declare this guy a very good, if not potentially elite (someday), defensive player.'
  20. jimmer
    Exactly. Santana was arguably their best offensive weapon during the season, but he is a DH. Their choice was sit him for a couple games, or have him play OF and take their chances. Thats different than Francona saying at the beginning of the season 'lets make Santana our permanent LF.' when the DH option is there.
  21. jimmer
    i have watched him play a lot AND by looking at his advanced metrics, they match what my eyes have seen. I see A very good defender having a poor defensive offseason (of which i have watched every game), which many of my friends who are cubs fans, including one of my best friends, also say. Bte, sano is horrible with DRS and is negative at UZR. The eyes say the same as the metrics.
  22. jimmer
    Kris Bryant has been a quality defender everywhere they have put him. He is an example of an athletic person whose athleticism actually shows up in the field, as opposed to a person who has his athleticism raved about but cant play defense.
  23. jimmer
    I get that, but that's less of a thing than it used to be now that there are five playoff spots per league. More teams are in the playoff hunt for a longer amount of time and, therefore, less likely to put out spring training type lineups down the stretch.
  24. jimmer
    But apparently that caution hasn't applied to July stats :-) http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=vargake01&year=2016&t=b
  25. jimmer
    Actually what it says is some scouts feel he will move to RF or 1B. Fangraphs scouts didn't say it, nor did they say they agree with the scouts that did or say it's a good idea. They also say one reason is his defensive problems at 3B (lack of quick first step and arm accuracy) would cause the move, not that his skills said he should play there. And last I look, when spring training happened, and he was 270 or more pounds, they continued with the plan instead of saying, 'um, he didn't lose 20-30 pounds, he gained weight (or stayed even), so it's probably not a good idea to proceed.' Instead, they carried on. See, here's a guy who has never played the OF, ever, and now you want a guy who has never had to judge routes to fly balls at any professional level to maneuver that weight out there, changing routes having to stop all that weight and re-direct and having to do it at the major league level. It was a horrible plan and not one person is saying it was just because of his weight that it was a bad idea.
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