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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Ohtani impressed by rapist. Cancelled! Ohtani impressed by SLAPJACK
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rickiep00h posted:I'm still trying to figure out what unrelated dead celebrity pitch would actually get me to take a job. David Bowie maybe? David Bowie and Bing Crosby
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Angels legend Shohei Ohtani
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The mariners showed ohtani a video of Macklemore saying he should join the mariners and that made him join an NL team instead.
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Bregor posted:David Bowie and Bing Crosby I have that on 7-inch from Record Store Day and it loses a lot of its weirdness without the video. But the video is the determining factor here anyway, so I agree.
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Bregor posted:Bing Crosby MLB? Nah. NHL? I’m listening.
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I dunno what that graphic is but they’re missing Justin Steele so it’s bullshit
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Bregor posted:I dunno what that graphic is but they’re missing Justin Steele so it’s bullshit
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Bregor posted:I dunno what that graphic is but they’re missing Justin Steele so it’s bullshit Context
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thank you for the link, it really helps reinforce how these selections are bullshit because Justin Steele is missing
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https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1736459441678250180 Edit: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1736463945320272251 Would have loved the Jays to do that but lol at Atkins admitting a mistake Darude - Adam Sandstorm fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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Dinosaurs! posted:Years? Lol
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live with fruit posted:Fourteen million a year seems like a lot for Gurriel? Obviously not an apples-to-apples comparison, but Gurriel is a 115 OPS+ hitter to Cody Bellinger's 120 OPS+, career. Gurriel is two years older, but Bellinger's going to get a hell of a lot more than $14MM AAV.
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That's a steal for the DBacks. They don't have a lot of right handed hitting and he fits their offensive style too I liked him last year with Moreno.
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Justin Steele among all MLB qualified pitchers in 2023: 6th in ERA 8th in xERA 5th in FIP 7th in fWAR 5th in NL Cy voting But apparently not deserving of being named a top 10 pitcher in MLB for 2023. Okay MLB.  Dude got absolutely no respect this year outside of Chicago and I hope he continues his development and absolutely shoves in 2024. e. Also sorry not to be that guy but Ohtani doesn't belong on this list. Yeah he's the best player on the planet right now, but his 2023 pitching stats with the injury just aren't that eye-popping: Ohtani: 132 IP, 3.18/3.45/4.00 ERA/xERA/FIP, 2.4 fWAR Steel: 173.1 IP, 3.06/3.50/3.02 ERA/xERA/FIP, 4.9 fWAR Yes I am extremely mad about this snub on an utterly pointless minor MLB honor. You can put it in the newspaper that I got mad. Sydin fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Ohtani had 4 bWar vs Steele's 3.8 Which is baffling to me when Steele had the lower ERA, a near one run lower FIP, and a difference in xERA of like .05 with +40 IP over Ohtani. I can only assume BR's defense calculations for WAR are significantly dinging Steel (because he was backed up by a stellar Cubs defense) and boosting Ohtani (because he backed up by the no good, dogshit Angels). Also yeah Webb is a huge snub as well. fake e. okay yeah I have no loving clue what bref is doing with pitcher WAR right now because it says Gausman was only worth 3.4 for a 185 IP, 3.16/2.97 ERA/FIP season, which,  Fangraphs rightly pegs him as having been a >5 WAR guy.
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I was initially miffed by Gray not making 1st team, and I think Ohtani is the obvious guy who shouldn't be over him. After some thought, I think that's just part of being a two way player, that even for pitcher lists like this, he gets credit for doing both. He's a top pitcher who also has a phenomenal bat, which ultimately makes for one of the 5 best pitchers. There's probably a point where he pitches too few innings for that to remain true, but clearly he passed that bar in many minds this year.Sydin posted:Which is baffling to me when Steele had the lower ERA, a near one run lower FIP, and a difference in xERA of like .05 with +40 IP over Ohtani. I can only assume BR's defense calculations for WAR are significantly dinging Steel (because he was backed up by a stellar Cubs defense) and boosting Ohtani (because he backed up by the no good, dogshit Angels). Baseball Reference's WAR formulation does a ton, it's all explained on the page too. It's hard to argue the Gausman case in isolation, so I'll just suggest it's probably a reflection of the excess value we perceive in high end pitching. His 3.4 WAR is hardly low, and I think if you found a comparable position player, you'd likely think that player was very good too. With pitchers however, that same 3 WAR seems harder to come by, and thus feels like too little for a dude as good as Gausman imo. And as you probably know, one thing to note is bbref uses all runs allowed as its base, while fangraphs uses FIP/peripherals. So the disparity is really not unexpected, and of course a pitcher like Gausman is going to do better in fWAR. If you think that's a better reflection of his value, I think you have a good sense of which metric you should rely on. None of the numbers you included are actually informing bbref WAR, outside innings. While the two WARs are fairly similar on position players, for pitchers they are trying to approach things two very different ways.
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R.D. Mangles posted:assuming she's an immaculate grid fan I can't find video of it, but Kyle Schwarber hitting a pop-up double to Jake Peavy to lead off the August 26, 2015 game against the Giants is my favorite Peavy moment.
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elentar posted:Braves had to straight up release Carpenter, unsurprisingly no takers even with them picking up the tab. Sounds like a 2024 league minimum Cub who inexplicably blocks an interesting prospect already!
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Sydin posted:Sounds like a 2024 league minimum Cub who inexplicably blocks an interesting prospect already! Their approach at this point is clearly "what's the minimum amount we can pay for a winning record?"
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Paper Tiger posted:"Anything to declare?" the way the audio on that scene is kinda hosed up like Dennis is 20 feet away from the mic makes that shot all the more perfect
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Sydin posted:Sounds like a 2024 league minimum Cub who inexplicably blocks an interesting prospect already! This year will be different! …right? 
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https://twitter.com/M_Montemurro/status/1736799069106848242 lol another year, another Cubs convention with a quietly axed ownership Q&A panel. They cut the business ops panel for the first time ever too, a great sign!
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Everybody hated the autograph vouchers but getting rid of them is going to be an absolute shitshow, lol.
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Poque posted:Everybody hated the autograph vouchers but getting rid of them is going to be an absolute shitshow, lol.
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