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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:450 outs generated with a combination of strikeouts and fielded outs is still a LOT of outs to make. Adam Dunn hit 40 homers for a sub-1 WARP a few years ago, then followed it with 30 bombs for a sub-0 WARP. That has way more to do with the WARP formula than dingers vs outs. He played bad defense at 1B, no defense at DH, and was a slow, old baserunner. He stopped being able to get base hits hardly at all, but because he hit 75 dingers and walked almost 200 times in those two years he was an above average offensive player by basically every metric (OPS+, wRC, wOBA, tAV, pick one). Only the VORP part of WARP is valuable in this conversation. I hate the sentence I just wrote so very, very much.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Can't steal third if you strike out 25 times a game because Mike Trout can't handle pitching up in the zone. Agreed he's like barely an All Star if you can keep the ball between the belt and the bottom of the letters and never miss.
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I don't think you should choose between either going to MLB or MiLB, but if you're feeling out whether going to a baseball game is something you're interested in definitely see a minor league game. They're as tuned to involve the crowd and be fan friendly as any professional sport can be. I will quote from the wikipedia article about our local minor league team to convince you of this. quote:"The Blue Rocks have three mascots. One is Rocky Bluewinkle, a blue moose. Another is Mr. Celery, a stalk of celery that comes out to "Song 2" by Blur when Wilmington scores a run, and dances and tosses stalks of celery into the crowd whenever a Blue Rocks player hits a home run. Finally, there is Rubble, a giant blue rock." Plus for $10 you get an awesome seat and you can bug an entire section by pointing at "prospects".
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Bird in a Blender posted:Do they serve bloody marys that I can dip my celebratory celery into? One of the pubs serves cocktails, so I'm going to answer in the affirmative for this question.
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