Manny signs with Padres

[Can_of_corn]

11 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Aubrey Huff's thoughts on the deal.  Amusing...

 

Right after he called San Diego a Horse**** town.

[wildbillhiccup]

20 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Aubrey Huff's thoughts on the deal.  Amusing...

 

I saw this earlier. What an idiot. I honestly think it was more about him trying to puff out his own chest then be funny. I particularly liked the person who commented "can you do defense now?"

 

[Frobby]

Interesting way Huff had of doing that calculation.    His “first seven years” excludes the 39 games he played in 2000, and starts with his first full season.   Manny’s “first seven years” includes the two month season he had in 2012, and of course also includes 2014 when he missed half the year with an injury.   The last of Manny’s “first seven seasons” was his age 25 season; Huff’s was his age 30 season.    

[NashLumber]

2 hours ago, pdiddy said:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1-The-Pt-Coronado-CA-92118/17150247_zpid/

15 minutes to the ballpark. Add a boat to skip the traffic altogether on off days. Not getting this on south side of Chicago.

Easy to pee in the backyard. Check. Too cold to do that in Chicago much of the year. 

[backwardsk]

1 hour ago, SteveA said:

Aubrey Huff's thoughts on the deal.  Amusing...

 

Wow, Twitter is truly an awful place.  Leave it to Keith Law to attack him for his religion.

[NattyO's]

3 hours ago, backwardsk said:

Wow, Twitter is truly an awful place.  Leave it to Keith Law to attack him for his religion.

Yes Twitter is. I was on Twitter just for MLB news. I ended up deleting it about six months ago. Very bad. 

[atomic]

5 hours ago, Frobby said:

Interesting way Huff had of doing that calculation.    His “first seven years” excludes the 39 games he played in 2000, and starts with his first full season.   Manny’s “first seven years” includes the two month season he had in 2012, and of course also includes 2014 when he missed half the year with an injury.   The last of Manny’s “first seven seasons” was his age 25 season; Huff’s was his age 30 season.    

That's just Huff being Huff.  

[DrungoHazewood]

10 hours ago, Frobby said:

Interesting way Huff had of doing that calculation.    His “first seven years” excludes the 39 games he played in 2000, and starts with his first full season.   Manny’s “first seven years” includes the two month season he had in 2012, and of course also includes 2014 when he missed half the year with an injury.   The last of Manny’s “first seven seasons” was his age 25 season; Huff’s was his age 30 season.    

Huff's defense over that period: -38 runs.  Positional adjustment: -28

Manny's: +73 and +26

Add that up and Manny is about 16, 17 wins ahead on defense.  Oh, and accounting for context Manny was 4-5 wins ahead on offense.  Which, of course, adds up to +33 wins in 926 games for Machado, and +12 in 867 for Huff.

Hopefully he was just goofing around.

[DrungoHazewood]

13 hours ago, SteveA said:

Doesn't WAR take era into account

Sort of.  Mostly.  It takes run context and park effects into account.  But not slope of history, or not usually.

An example: Dante Bichette had multiple years hovering around replacement level with .850-.900 OPSes in 1990s Coors Field, while Wes Parker was +1.5 wins as a first baseman with a .636 OPS in 1968 Dodger Stadium.  That doesn't take into account the increase in level of play over those ~30 years.

[Redskins Rick]

16 hours ago, bobmc said:

Hijack Alert:

Unless you pick a "bubble community" with golf cart access, autonomous vehicles, 750 miles of roads with everything close (like I happen to have in The Villages).  

https://voyage.auto/community/the-villages-florida/

Awesome stuff.

I think my timeshare is located within this section.

Not that this compares to that, but I think I did read, where they were testing self driving on an interstate in San Diego.

 

[Redskins Rick]

10 hours ago, backwardsk said:

Wow, Twitter is truly an awful place.  Leave it to Keith Law to attack him for his religion.

I had little respect for Keith Law to begin with, and I didnt know this, makes me like him even less.

[Redskins Rick]

15 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Sort of.  Mostly.  It takes run context and park effects into account.  But not slope of history, or not usually.

An example: Dante Bichette had multiple years hovering around replacement level with .850-.900 OPSes in 1990s Coors Field, while Wes Parker was +1.5 wins as a first baseman with a .636 OPS in 1968 Dodger Stadium.  That doesn't take into account the increase in level of play over those ~30 years.

Enough ball players of different stats, you can find some to point out, regardless of which side of the argument you were on.

[wildbillhiccup]

10 hours ago, backwardsk said:

Wow, Twitter is truly an awful place.  Leave it to Keith Law to attack him for his religion.

I missed the Keith Law tweet, but when you post something as stupid as Huff did it's really hard for me to feel sympathetic. I think that's what I hate about Twitter the most. These has beens, like Huff, trying to use it as a way to stay celebrity relevant. I mean why should I care what the woman who played Joan of Arcadia or the guy who played Lester Diamond in Casino think?

For the record, Huff has a history of kinda being an  (rhymes with grass knoll). 

[TonySoprano]

54 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Huff's defense over that period: -38 runs.  Positional adjustment: -28

Manny's: +73 and +26

Add that up and Manny is about 16, 17 wins ahead on defense.  Oh, and accounting for context Manny was 4-5 wins ahead on offense.  Which, of course, adds up to +33 wins in 926 games for Machado, and +12 in 867 for Huff.

Hopefully he was just goofing around.

 

 

[DrungoHazewood]

18 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

 

 

Yea, not goofing around.  I think he's auditioning for the John Goodman role if they remake Revenge of the Nerds.