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  1. jimmer
    No. Todd Frazier had 10 DRS (4th in MLB for 3B) and was 3rd in UZR.
  2. jimmer
    Todd Frazier had 10 DRS (4th in MLB for 3B) and was 3rd in UZR. Escobar had -5 DRS and a negative UZR. He was as bad as Sano in pretty much the same amount of innings. The only thing Escobar had on Sano was range. 26 3Bs had 650 or more innings played. Escobar ranked 20th in RZR, Sano was 25th.
  3. jimmer
    Buxton provides top notch defense and is very young. Lots of room to improve. Gibson is in his 30s. He is what he is. Nowhere near the same thing.
  4. jimmer
    How do people feel about a 2019 rotation of Berrios, Cobb/Lynn, Gonsalves, May, Mejia?
  5. jimmer
    Over the last three years Lynn has produced 4.5 fWAR. He HAS produced over 3 fWAR a few times. In the NL. Before injury. Cobb's highest fWAR was 2.8 in 2014. I don't see any evidence either will produce 3.5-5 WAR. More likely in the 2s (hopefully high 2s). In truth, I think we will get one of them and maybe whichever it is will do well. We likely need one SP.
  6. jimmer
    Right now, 27 SPs get paid more per year than our highest paid pitcher (Santana, the only good signing). He gets less than 14M per year. Hughes, because of his extension, comes in at 29th. Overall, we may have spent quite a bit on SP pitching spread out over 4, 5, 6 pitchers, but that was out of pure necessity (cause we couldn't land a quality SP in a trade and couldn't develop them) and none were really big contracts in today's market. Keep aiming for middle of the road: Cobb, Lynn.
  7. jimmer
    Wait a minute. First some say we actually spent a lot on pitching over the last few years. Then we read a 3 year, 24.5M FA contract for a veteran player is a pricey contract and now we've gotten to the point where we spent TOO MUCH money over the last few years? Incredible. We are spending BEASTS!
  8. jimmer
    I'm hoping beyond hope the team DOESN'T put Mauer anywhere near 3B or the outfield. He's an exceptional fielder at 1B who saves the other IF (and by extension the pitching staff) and having him, at 35, try to tackle new positions would be disastrous with no benefit.
  9. jimmer
    Buxton was awesome and deserving,but he didnt lead all MLB OF in DRS. Betts did.
  10. jimmer
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-judge-nominee-36-who-has-never-tried-a-case-wins-approval-of-senate-panel/ar-BBEOWih?li=BBnb7Kz
  11. jimmer
    This
  12. jimmer
    Gibsons' numbers this year are practically identical to last years. IMO, this is who Gibson is until he can prove otherwise over the course of a whole year. He had a good 5 game stretch in the latter part of the season (22 Aug-12 Sep). Nice to see, but not much to hang a hat on.
  13. jimmer
    Schoenfield predicts Molitor wins AL MOY. http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/84575/judging-mlbs-award-finalists-who-will-take-home-the-hardware
  14. jimmer
    Those WERE pretty much Gibson's numbers with the exception of having better K numbers but worse BB numbers.
  15. jimmer
    Zucker gets the hat trick! 5 goals in the last two days!
  16. jimmer
    Zucker had two goals yesterday and two more today.
  17. jimmer
    I'm intrigued by a singing Darvish too, as long as we aren't talking Christmas songs :-)
  18. jimmer
    I think of it as this: Pitchers don't go head to head or compete against each other. Pitches face the opposing lineups.
  19. jimmer
    Netflix Alias Grace is also a very good show.
  20. jimmer
    Mauer seems to be coming back around to hitting lefties well. His BA against them was .308 (higher than against righties) and he still had an OBP of almost .380 against lefties. Molitor did a great job keeping Mauer fresh this year, starting him 131 games and having him appear in 10 others. He's obviously going to get some days off and it seems day games after night games (or night games before day games) is the best way to do that. If that means missing some games against lefties, fine, but I'm not sure we need to actively avoid batting him against lefties.
  21. jimmer
    Yes, ERAs went up that high since 1993, yet Mussina (who started in '96) still bested Morris' ERA by half a run. ERA+ compares how a pitcher's ERA compares to others in their time. Mussina's is 123, Morris is 105. That's a considerable difference. Means Morris' ERA was 5% better than league average while Mussina's was 23% better than league average. Mussina's K rate was 7.0/9, his walk rate was 2.0/9, his WHIP was 1.192. Morris' K rate was 5.8/9, his walk rate was 3.3/9, his WHIP was 1.296. Mussina's playoff ERA: 3.42, with a 9.3K, and 2.1 BB/9 Morris' playoff ERA: 3.80, with a 6.2K/9 and 3.1 BB/9. Mussina was way better than Morris even in the playoffs. And as far as new stats go, Mussina has 82.2 fWAR. Morris 55.8.
  22. jimmer
    I enjoyed the new Netflix series Mindhunter. It's slow, but the story is very good as is the acting.
  23. jimmer
    yeah, I agree completely.
  24. jimmer
    I think some question whether or not it's a good idea to make Kepler a platoon player at this point. Also need to take into account he's a quality defender and how the drop off affects the pitching when he's on the bench and an inferior defender is out.
  25. jimmer
    Buxton and Kepler were born in the same year. They are ten months apart. Apparently one seems to have reached the age where his potential has been realized, the other is still a young kid with a lot of room to grow.
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