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  1. No desire to ever step foot in New York. I feel about New York the way I feel about Paris.
  2. https://www.fangraphs.com/library/pitching/fip/ ● FIP does a better job of predicting the future than measuring the present, as there can be a lot of fluctuation in small samples. It is less effective in describing a pitcher’s single game performance and is more appropriate in a season’s worth of innings. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a retrospective statistic, simply that it requires more than a handful of innings to be a reliable indicator of performance, just like any statistic.
  3. Dozier and Buxton Co-MVPs.
  4. Sonny Gray FIP 3.90, Ervin Santana 4.46. Sonny Gray xFIP 3.76, Ervin Santana 4.77. Ervin Santana averaged about one more out per start. Then again, Yankees bullpen is way more trustworthy, so the Yankees had no issues with pulling a starter.
  5. pure awesomeness.
  6. and I have no idea when Trump was on the right side of this :-)
  7. Someone posted a tweet on the site yesterday that read 'I'm a vet & if you think I served so football players could take a knee during the anthem to protest injustice...you'd be right.' I couldnt agree more.
  8. it's a bit funny when we start dogging Mauer for not saving infielders from bad throws just because he has done it most of the season :-)
  9. His FIP is almost a run lower and his BABIP is high. The guy is nasty.
  10. Salazar averages over 12Ks per 9 IP. Don't think it's just our batters :-)
  11. 'Buxton said it was about a year and a half ago that Twins officials approached him with Statcast data to illustrate how he might better take advantage of his athletic gifts to save runs. Most players, of course, are likely to embrace the advice of coaching staff; the addition of cold, hard, unfeeling data, though, makes that advice even more persuasive.' 'We’ve seen Statcast tools help inform hitters on how to improve swings and approaches. Buxton says it can also help defensive play. And Buxton’s testimony is important as he has emerged as the top outfield defender in the game this season, and he is a significant reason why the Twins have enjoyed a defensive turnaround (-46 DRS in 2016 to +11 this season). Buxton and his glove are reasons the Twins are on the cusp of a postseason appearance.' Those math guys and all their nerdy worthless info... BTW, I wonder who will be the next FANGRAPHS writer hired by a team to work in the FO? Pretty soon, if Fangraphs loses too much more talent to silly organizations who think these writers know enough about baseball to help their organization, they might get desperate and hire Harold Reynolds or Jon Heyman to write to there. Nahhh, they'd never stoop that low.
  12. So I was out last night watching the football game, and I ordered a Monte Cristo. Now, I've never had one, but I was curious why that was the only sandwich where they purposely offered a half. Even the waiter asked, 'Half?' I said nope. Then I found out why they actively offer a half. I was only starting to get hungry around 4 PM today.
  13. never choose between those two. just say yes.
  14. Is it sad I yelled he got it as soon as it left the bat? Scared my mother-in-law, my daughter and my dog!
  15. There's Dozier choking again with people on base...
  16. I celebrate during the planning process of a project myself, because optimism:-)
  17. 'Castro almost let that one get by him'-Richard Bremer.
  18. Haha, yeah, it's the people at FANGRAPHS who don't understand the game. Wow.
  19. I hear a lot about platooning, but roster construction in todays game, with 5 man rotations and larger bullpens than before, doesnt lend itself to platooning as much as it did before. 25 man roster, 13 pitcher leaves 12 position players. 9 position players play in the AL (8 on the field, one at DH). There just isnt much room to move around and play splits as much as some seem to want.
  20. The day before, the pitcher's daughter broke her collarbone.
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