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Folks had big issues with the Ump last night right?

How am I moving the goalposts? YOU said 569 At bats for YOUR hand picked example. O'Hearn isn't even close to that. It's your goalpost. You picked one your boy hasn't reached.

Sure. So a LOT more than we've seen from O'Hearn. Not sure why you are talking this up, it doesn't support your point. If O'Hearn is still doing this at the All Star break next season that means a lot more than him doing it now.

He put up an OPS+ in the 90's for three seasons with the Pirates. He didn't really start improving with the Jays until his third season. He also had over 400 at bats in year two with the Jays. So maybe at bat 700 or so?

Thank goodness for the WBC.

He's had half a seasons worth of at bats. I find it hilarious that you draw a line that says Mateo and Stewart are too small a sample size but O'Hearn has shown enough you can throw out everything else he'd done in his career. What at bat made the difference? I'm guessing #233.

For the record I'm saying saying it's impossible that O'Hearn has figured something out. I'm just not in favor of throwing out data.

Mets must have "fixed" him.

Didn't they "fix" Mateo earlier in the year? Didn't they "fix" Voth last year?

Did you see the new Jaffe chat? Someone asked a question about an 29 year old player, a six year vet, who is having a breakthrough season. The player in question is of course DJ Stewart. Should the Mets throw out all the previous data on Stewart?

Yea, I'm always going to default to baseball age.

Yea, that's never happened before in the history of the game. A guy has never just had an outlier season that didn't mean his career had suddenly changed.

Right, we have all this data showing something, from when he was given chances in the past, but we should just ignore the data. Because...reasons.... He's been a great story but he's 29. Odds are overwhelming that this is an outlier year for him.

Near as I can tell that's his A game.

Sure, let's throw out five years of data. That makes sense.

Veteran leadership in action.

Went to school at Severna Park so I guess the Baltimore one. Only did it my Senior year. Kid a couple of years before me got on Jeopardy and that Millionaire show. He took that year's team pretty far on his own.

It's Academic in High School for me.

I'm thinking even they know it's possible for the Angels to win.

No one thinks that.

I think the draft pick is going to entice him.

You can always win out, you can't undo a loss.

Must win game for Boston.

We always have been. Just like we are still taking other team's castoffs. That's the way it works.

My take, when someone puts quotes around an injury, is that they either don't think they have the injury or don't think the condition is an actual injury. Like Ubaldo "twisted his ankle" in the parking lot or Joe Schmo is suffering from "mental fatigue".