DrungoHazewood
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It's the kind of line I wish were sustainable. I think it would be fun to have more annoyingly pesky hitters as a contrast to the Chris Davises of the world. But Luke Appling hasn't been a viable model since roughly WWII.
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Sure, both fans and management would like a guy with 100 walks and 50 homers, instead of 100 walks and eight.
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I have to think that he'll eventually hit for a little power. Right now his ISO is essentially the same as an average pitcher batting. He has to be better than that.
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.424 is the all time Oriole record, set by Willie Keeler in 1897. I wouldn't really mind Adam tying it... The whole time I was growing up the record was .432, but somewhere along the way those retrosheet guys discovered an error, probably a double-counting of some hits, and Willie lost eight points of BA. It is kind of funny, if you go to Retrosheet right now and list all time qualified single-season BA leaders Jones and Keeler are tied for 9th place, since you only need about 46 PAs to qualify this year.
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Like almost anything else BABIP is subject to random fluctuations caused by any number of things. And it usually trends back towards recently-weighted career averages. Maybe Nick is dialed in, maybe he's got good luck, maybe he's feeling better after surgery, or more likely a combination of things. I wish him well, but he ain't hitting .373 this year.
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That mark would have been the highest in the majors (among qualifiers) last year by 0.059. And about 130 points above the level he's established the last 3-4 years. That mark would also set a post-1900 record, as the last person to BABIP greater than .432 was Hugh Duffy in 1894. I hope Nick does well when he's not playing the Orioles, but BABIPing .432 is just a wee bit unsustainable.
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Ha! Simon is probably just a huge fan of Star Wars, couldn't figure out how to drive a Millennium Falcon, so he settled on an Earth version of the Naboo Royal Starship. But that gets him some demerits for the reference to a prequel. <iframe id="rufous-sandbox" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="display: none;" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>
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This may not warrant its own thread, but is one of the more funny/awesome/ridiculous things I've seen in a while: Alfredo Simon really does drive a totally chrome Mercedes Benz that looks like a real life Hot Wheels car. It must be pretty great to have enough money that you can do stuff just because the 12-year-old version of yourself would think its super totally cool.
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Would you have matched SEA offer to keep Cruz an Oriole?
DrungoHazewood replied to isestrex's topic in Orioles Talk
Outscoring the opposition wins. And Miller pitched 62 innings this past year, leaving about 1396 innings for other pitchers to pick up. -
Would you have matched SEA offer to keep Cruz an Oriole?
DrungoHazewood replied to isestrex's topic in Orioles Talk
I think 20% is a good estimate of the percentage of people who don't care what a player costs, Peter Angelos is a billionaire and should just pay whatever to keep/acquire good players. -
Would you have matched SEA offer to keep Cruz an Oriole?
DrungoHazewood replied to isestrex's topic in Orioles Talk
Cruz is being paid for almost 10 wins at $6M per win. Or more than he's been worth over the previous four seasons. Seattle is either betting that he ages in reverse, or that baseball inflation is going to be fairly extreme. My figurin' says Cruz is worth about 4/30 based on a weighted average of his last four years and a half a win decline per year. The Mariners essentially doubled that. As I said earlier in the offseason the Orioles should have thanked him for 2014 and the draft pick, given him a nice basket of Orioles-logoed baseballs and some Old Bay, and wished him good luck in whatever place thinks they've found the fountain of youth. -
Perhaps it was "give a spectator an at bat" night?
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<IFRAME style="DISPLAY: none" id=rufous-sandbox frameBorder=0 allowTransparency scrolling=no allowtransparency="true"></IFRAME>I think I'd assumed that Rich Hill was about 42 and had retired five years ago. Wasn't he an 88-mph junkballer with a shoulder made out of bailing twine and duct tape when he was with the O's in 2009? True fact: since his one big year in 2007 he has pitched 147 MLB innings and walked 105. 5.55 ERA.
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Good for him. The O's certainly gave him more chances than Earl's first wife. It wasn't happening with this team/league/division.
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Good for Lew. In the same league, for the SoMd Blue Crabs, Brian Burres is 3-2, 1.64 in 49 innings. Rommie Lewis has 15 saves and also a 1.64 for the York Revolution.<iframe id="rufous-sandbox" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="display: none;"></iframe>
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In 2006 the O's were 70-92 and had a team ERA of 5.35. This was a team that gave 18 starts to pitchers with ERAs of 6.90 or higher. Loewen had a 2.77 ERA in AA, then blew away AAA hitters in three starts. What organization would have kept him in the minors all year given all that? Screech's callup was completely inexplicable, and I don't even remember the circumstances around Mato.
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I think it's more likely he likes to play baseball, and isn't even aware of his career earnings.
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Just in the last couple days BP has had fairly in-depth reports on each of these guys and they say Hader could be a back-end starter if things go right, while Harvey is one of the best pitching prospects in the game.
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It's dicey. I do understand some of these leagues, at least at the beginning, are trying to keep one rich guy from dominating and keeping the others from establishing a base, torpedoing the viability of the whole thing.
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Yes. The players play hard because it's their life. But the fact that nobody cares about winning kind of invalidates the whole concept of a league.
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I absolutely agree with that. I hate that the minors sold out and the majors enabled this travesty. Most North American pro baseball leagues simply don't care about wins and losses. If you don't live near one of the 30 real teams your local team is kind of a sham.
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A big pet peeve of mine is calling the 3rd-best baseball league in the world sub-par. That's saying 99.999 percent of ballplayers in the world should just give up. Talent in baseball is a pyramid. MLB is the single capstone on top. It couldn't exist without the thousands of bricks below.
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Oh yea? What did you see in him? At the time the O's let him go he was 30 years old and had a professional (minors and majors) ERA of about 5.00 with peripherals that didn't stand out at all. He was a big guy who threw hard but got no results.
