Around Baseball 2014

[jaysfan2014]

When are the Rays going to DFA Heath Bell? He just continues to serve up meatballs. What a lousy trade they made with the D-Backs.

[Boxcar]

If Lester goes to either LA team my erection will never subside.

 

I'd see a doctor about that.

[Deadpool]

I'd see a doctor about that.

 

http://i.imgur.com/h5dd6zD.png

[G-Snarls]

CJ Cron called up. Playing at DH tonight for the Angels

[LunchBox]

HOU was leading SEA 2-1 after six, SEA now leading 9-6 in the eighth lol

 

Hard as it may be to watch the Jays at times, it'd be worse to be an Astros fan watching games like that AND having to look at Brett Oberholtzer's face.

 

 

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[Atothe]

http://i.imgur.com/fqh1Qkt.gif

 

Awesome, I love glove passes

[Atothe]

Why is Ron Washington letting Darvish go 115+ pitches in a game he's leading 9-2 in the 7th

 

Cuz Ron Washington don't give a f***

[LunchBox]

Why is Ron Washington letting Darvish go 115+ pitches in a game he's leading 9-2 in the 7th

 

Everyone knows Asians can throw approximately twice as many pitches and Darvish is half-Asian, I'm no mathematician but his optimal pitch-count should obviously be ~150.

[jaysfan2014]

Baltimore lost, New York lost, Boston lost.. and the AL East continues to be awful. Jays are only 2.5 out, and with a good week, could be in 1st place, because the Yankees have the Angels and Brewers this week, Baltimore has Tampa, and Boston has the rebounding Reds.

 

Pretty sad state of the AL when a struggling Jays team is still within distance.

[G-Snarls]

Baltimore lost, New York lost, Boston lost.. and the AL East continues to be awful. Jays are only 2.5 out, and with a good week, could be in 1st place, because the Yankees have the Angels and Brewers this week, Baltimore has Tampa, and Boston has the rebounding Reds.

 

Pretty sad state of the AL when a struggling Jays team is still within distance.

 

Love it

 

Make some smart roster moves for a change and maybe we have a chance here. Probably someone else has a surge and leaves us behind but at least we can put up a fight

[G-Snarls]

Jays lead East in run differential with 0.

 

That's incredible

 

We're scoring enough runs. Figure out the bullpen, figure out who the 5 best starters are, send them out there and roll the dice.

[BigBounceyBlueBalls]

First part can just be left alone.

Second is easy: Hutchison, Dickey, Stroman, Buehrle, Nolin.

 

How do you figure that? I call ********! Lol

 

Stop hating on my Dusty McGowan!

[jaysfan2014]

McGowan is fine as a starter. Didn't you see his last 2 starts? The 5th spot is the issue.. one of Happ, Stroman, Nolin, Redmond are going to need to step up. And we get Janssen back within a week, BTW. We could make a run if the bullpen improves, as the offense and SP is there.

[Caper]

unfortunately, mcgowan has probably bought himself at least 3-4 more starts.

 

stfu

[GD]

stfu

 

Same to you

[Caper]

Same to you

 

He can view it with his other account... no need to quote me.

[BigBounceyBlueBalls]

Nolin was projected at beginning of season to be better than McGowan is projected now (Nolin has only shown to be better in AAA this year). McGowan has a terrible 5.48 xFIP, which hasn't really gotten better, 5.92 and 4.85 xFIPs in his last two starts.

 

Projections mean nothing till you can prove them,much like theory sometimes when tested in real world applications then we see the flaws and sometimes find out we're wrong! The human factor is why we play the game! Humans supply your data, data does no supply us humans! And humans are flawed hence so is your data! Lol

[Caper]

Far too much quoting of Caper going on in active threads right now.

 

You love me!!!

[saskjayfan]

The best public projection system has him at a 4.69 FIP rest of season, and that's with a third of innings in the bullpen.

 

With the overwhelmingly large sample size of all that data...one really doesn't need to pay attention to how McGowan is actually pitching and whether his command is developing. The statistics have spoken...the player can not make any adjustments to alter what is pre-ordained.....I can hardly wait for Jesse Chavez to regress to the 7 ERA he should be posting.

[saskjayfan]

Projection systems are very sound and are meant to be ranking systems. Obviously variation is expected, because there is a ton of variation in baseball.

 

The smaller the sample size..the greater the variation....so why do you feel so strongly that McGowan is crap.

[GD]

Ugh, now quoting BigBounceyBlueBalls. Oh god my eyes.

 

He's like Spanky, only not awesome.

[BigBounceyBlueBalls]

Ugh, now quoting BigBounceyBlueBalls. Oh god my eyes.

 

Still better then quoting you! JFaS has all the data to prove it too! Lol

[BigBounceyBlueBalls]

He's like Spanky, only not awesome.

 

Damn bitter Raptor fan! Lol Thank you!

[GD]

Still better then quoting you! JFaS has all the data to prove it too! Lol

 

http://www.ocalapost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/shots-fired.jpg

 

BANG BANG

 

BTS, you gon take that s***?

[GD]

He's not worth starting anything over, just stop quoting him and it's like that lump that keeps growing, problem solved.

 

You should get that checked out.

[GD]

And today that lump's name is GD.

 

Well that sucks for you cause you ain't getting rid of me.

[BigBounceyBlueBalls]

Don't get me wrong I am still trying to learn, your inturrpertation of data is Awesome work! Sometimes it can be much for the lay person is all. I enjoy the games as games first is all! McGowan I see as a stat or numbers breaker who the team will rally behind and play harder for hard to factor that into your stats is all I am saying! Much like Doc the team seemed to always show up and play different. Sometimes the Hive is hard to take! Lol Edited May 5, 2014 by BigBounceyBlueBalls

[Caper]

Don't get me wrong I am still trying to learn, your inturrpertation of data is Awesome work! Sometimes it can be much for the lay person is all. I enjoy the games as games first is all! McGowan I see as a stat or numbers breaking who the team will rally behind and play harder for hard to factor that into your stats is all I am saying! Much like Doc the team seemed to always show up and play different. Sometimes the Hive is hard to take! Lol

 

Remember... Yan Gomes is terrible at baseball, because the spread sheet says so.

[GD]

Remember... Yan Gomes is terrible at baseball, because the spread sheet says so.

 

Oh my f***ing god.

[Caper]

Oh my f***ing god.

 

I know, I know.... But I'm sitting at work.... I have 7 hours to kill and I'm waiting for the other type of nerds to get the new Game of Thrones on the interwebs... So I said f*** it..... throw Yan Gomes into the hive and see what happens. f*** it.