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  1. jimmer
    How did Buxton, with that cannon, not throw out Cabrera? Bad throw.
  2. jimmer
    our IF have issues with basic fundamentals.
  3. jimmer
    nice throw!
  4. jimmer
    Come on now, Mauer lead the league in BA/OBP/SLG% and when he did that, he was the first player to do that in 30 years. He also had a league leading wRC+ of 170. And he did it as a catcher.
  5. jimmer
    Just have some Absinthe and get it over with.
  6. jimmer
    I still can't drink Whiskey. Been 31 years.
  7. jimmer
    I see what you did there.....sinner...:-)
  8. jimmer
    My first 'real' regular drink. Then I went to screwdriver, then rum and coke.
  9. jimmer
    Santiago has done well lately.
  10. jimmer
    Everyone knows, it's Long Islands that are the best :-)
  11. jimmer
    Unfortunately, it's the Twins that are on :-)
  12. jimmer
    Most stats have flaws either by how they are made or the conclusions drawn from them. It's about finding the best stats available. But since you brought it up, in one of the two years Cabrera won MVP over Trout, Trout actually had the better wRC+ as well. So, excluding defense altogether (and without taking into account positions at all), Trout was still better.
  13. jimmer
    Even crazier is that he just turned 25 last month and should already have four.
  14. jimmer
    Didn't watch it yet. Plan to tonight. DID watch Kevin James' new one. I liked it, but not enough to continue watching it. Casting doesn't even seem to work.
  15. jimmer
    He will, deservedly, be on some ballots, since they vote for 10 players. He should be on most (if not all) ballots, but less deserving players will find their way on there. Big Papi will likely be on every ballot.
  16. jimmer
    Yes, the narrative was a big thing. I mentioned narratives as a factor in voting earlier. This year we have the narratives of Altuve and Donaldson. Altuve: Little Man doing big things. We have the Donaldson narrative of how he could win back to back MVPs and he's doing even better this year.
  17. jimmer
    yup. I'm thinking there is no way he gets it.
  18. jimmer
    And Dawson got it because of HR. There were quite a few players who deserved it way more than he did. Don't know what the voters were thinking, really. If their idea was, 'We want to prove standings don't matter in our voting' why not pick Gwynn or the guy I would have picked, Dale Murphy.
  19. jimmer
    http://www.fangraphs.com/library/the-beginners-guide-to-measuring-defense/
  20. jimmer
    If all voters looked at was a player's total contribution to his team, as opposed to narratives, just offense, and if his TEAM made the playoffs, Trout would be working on his 5th MVP now and Cabrera wouldn't have any top 2 finishes, much less two actual MVPs. Donaldson would have also been recognized as a real MVP candidate way before 2015 (when he finished 2nd in AL WAR), since he finished 2nd in AL WAR in 2013 and 2014 as well.
  21. jimmer
    Happy Birthday!!!!!!! And, as always, a great game thread intro!
  22. jimmer
    So, you're saying FP% is the best stat to look at when judging defense? I just want to make sure I'm reading your post right.
  23. jimmer
    Those are how the top 5 should look. I imagine that's how it will end up with the order switched up a bit.
  24. jimmer
    Due to the title of this thread, when I opened it, I expected the original post to have something in it like 'I got nothin'. Usually when a player from a last place team wins the MVP, it's because his performance so far outweigh everyone else's, there's no other choice. Not at all the case here, at least not with Dozier being the guy. Trout should be the example here, if we're looking for an MVP from a last place team. Dozier will likely sit around 8-10th
  25. jimmer
    Sometimes people cite stats without actually knowing what they mean or what they are for (like, a lot of people hear/read 'range factor' and think it measures a player's range). The stat most use for range is RZR and like I said, Dozier is tied for 4th with Kipnis. Interesting to note that it seems range has dropped almost across the board for 2Bs, cause his .807 RZR (even though he's tied for 4th) is categorized between below average and average. So I guess it depends on if you measure him against starters (making him above average) or all people who play 2B (making him below average and most other starters even farther below average). 'RZR measures a player’s range, taking three things into account: the amount of Balls In Zone (BIZ) a player receives, a player’s total Plays Made, and a player’s total amount of Out Of Zone Plays Made (OOZ).' But yeah, there are some other decent stats like RngR that measure range which has him below average. How shifting affects this is being worked on, though.
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