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By Aristotelian · Posted
Because Akin is not very good. -
By Sports Guy · Posted
The owner has explicated said he will do what Elias thinks is best -
By Sports Guy · Posted
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By interloper · Posted
This is some classic pitcher-speak head-in-the-sand nonsense. In fairness, they all do it. "I felt great out there but it just didn't go my way", etc. Or Cole Irvin after his sudden velocity decrease "I decided to stop focusing on velocity and get back to pitching". surejan.gif -
By Moose Milligan · Posted
I agree with that, I think he's better than a 50/50 chance. There's an outside shot at 3,000 hits and 500 homers. He's approaching 60 career rWAR, too and should probably clear 70 rWAR. -
Manny now has more homers as a Padre (164) than as an Oriole (162). 😢 He had a very rough start to his season, bottoming out at .611 OPS on May 17 and still only at .662 on June 18. Since then, he’s had a .918 OPS. I’d put his Hall of Fame chances at better than 50/50. He’s only 31 (baseball age) and is under contract for 9 more seasons. He’s going to accumulate some numbers even as he goes through his decline phase. And hopefully he’s got several very productive seasons left in him before the decline comes. -
Even in old-school pre-analytics ball it was well understood that hitting the ball hard and on a line was generally beneficial to your results. There has never been a time when hitting a blooper was considered a favorable outcome even if it frequently resulted in a hit. Are these frustrating to fans watching, and opposing teams that are the victims of these outcomes? Sure. But these outcomes have pretty much universally been considered luck. On the other hand expected stats clearly show that hitters with different profiles can (and do) succeed. Luis Arraez has an expected batting average of .319, 99th percentile, and an expected woba of .334, well above average, despite having one of the worst exit velocities in baseball. He can do this because he slaps line drives everywhere, and that is reflected in his squared-up rate and his rate of hitting balls in the launch angle sweet spot. The additional data has clearly (to me) shown that while there is an optimal value for everything, it's not absolute, and you can be a legit MLB player with a decently wide range of batting skills. Which is something that we already knew from watching baseball over the years.
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