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Which wild card front office do you most believe in?  

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  1. 1. Which wild card front office do you most believe in?

    • Houston Astros (led by Jeff Luhnow)
      10
    • New York Yankees (led by Brian Cashman)
      4
    • Chicago Cubs (led by Theo & Jed)
      68
    • Pittsburgh Pirates (led by Neal Huntington)
      15

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Laika Cooperstown

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Josh Donaldson:

 

His batting average shrunk by nearly 50 points last year, but he hit 29 home runs and — offering more music to the ears of the advanced analytics community — Donaldson notes that fluctuations in batting average on balls in play are often out of a player’s control but can have a major impact on the numbers. “In 2013 I was pretty lucky. My ball in play average was .333. Last year I was pretty unlucky. My ball put in play average was .278. Does it mean I had that much worse of a season? No. All of my other advanced metrics say it was good.”

 

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Laika Cooperstown

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Last guy i expected to hear something like that from

 

Really? Donaldson is a modern student of the game.

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Sorry if this was already posted.

 

 

Fans were upset over The A's having a Pride night so Sean Doolittle's girlfriend offers to buy any tickets fans don't want and is donating them to LGBT youth.

Laika Cooperstown

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Sorry if this was already posted.

 

 

Fans were upset over The A's having a Pride night so Sean Doolittle's girlfriend offers to buy any tickets fans don't want and is donating them to LGBT youth.

 

smart cookie. That's like a PR professional power move there.

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intentional wok

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Sorry if this was already posted.

 

 

Fans were upset over The A's having a Pride night so Sean Doolittle's girlfriend offers to buy any tickets fans don't want and is donating them to LGBT youth.

 

Baseball fans: celebrating with misty-eyed pride on Jackie Robinson day; still can't spit hard enough at other, yet-to-be-accepted minorities.

Boxcar All-Star

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Really? Donaldson is a modern student of the game.

 

hes just such a redneck. I always have low expectations for guys like that.

HERPDERP Vancouver Canadians

HERPDERP

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hes just such a redneck. I always have low expectations for guys like that.

 

Ikr? He looks like a douche and pretty unintelligent. Reminds me a lot like Gomes.

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Sorry if this was already posted.

 

 

Fans were upset over The A's having a Pride night so Sean Doolittle's girlfriend offers to buy any tickets fans don't want and is donating them to LGBT youth.

 

If anyone has the time do some research into homelessness and suicide rates for LGBT youths compared to straight youths. It's staggering and so disheartening. Good on the girlfriend.

GD MVP

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Ya you could for sure. There is "Off" on FanGraphs which is this. To convert to wRC+ style you would go ((Off/PA)/LGRPA+1)*100

 

Assuming this means "League Run Per PA." Are you using the terms Off and Runs interchangeably here? Or are you dividing Off by the tangible Runs stat?

GD MVP

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Fangraphs says wRC+ is "runs above average" as a percent, but BsR is actual runs above average... how can you add a percent plus an actual numeric value?

 

It's not wRC+ added with BsR on fangraphs. It's wRAA. wRAA is the BsR version of hitting. What that means is that it takes wOBA and puts it as runs above average. Like BsR does. So they're added together. Then you do what JFaS said.

 

Ah. But what is PA and LGRPA?

 

PA is plate appearances. LGRPA is League Runs Per Appearance, I assume.

GD MVP

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This is helpful especially since you did the math. I'm afraid to ask, what if you only have wOBA and BsR? Any way to combine those?

 

You'd need to turn BsR into a rate stat, adjust wOBA for park and then add those and do the thing. The math thingamajig.

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Louis Coleman waived by the Royals... Worth a look?

 

His 2013 was insane. Maybe worth a flier, I guess. Probably not much there though

GD MVP

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Then you need to get wRAA from wOBA.

Which is: lgwOBA is usually non-pitcher which is .315 http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=np&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2014&month=0&season1=2014&ind=0&team=0,ss&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0

(wOBA-lgwOBA)/wOBAScale*PA

 

So for Bautista wRAA = (.402-.315)/1.304*673 = 44.9

The wRAA you see on his page uses lg average wOBA including pitchers (.310). This isn't used for wRC+ though.

 

Then park and league adjust then add BsR.

 

I took his question to mean "What if you can't find wRAA, and you can only add wOBA and BsR." Could be wrong.

GD MVP

GD

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That's what I did lol. You just need wOBA, PA and constants.

 

Ohhhhhhhh I see, cool.

GD MVP

GD

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Yeah, JFaS really needs to get hired by an FO. Wish the Jays had someone like him but they won't even pay $50k for a programmer so.
Deadpool Buffalo Bisons

Deadpool

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f*** man, you're smart.

 

Some baseball organization needs to hire you to do analytics and s***.

 

Aren't there some sort of rules or laws against hiring a robot to replace a human?

Abomination Buffalo Bisons

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Yeah, JFaS really needs to get hired by an FO. Wish the Jays had someone like him but they won't even pay $50k for a programmer so.

 

He'd probably get better pay developing and publishing projections on the internet.

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Aren't there some sort of rules or laws against hiring a robot to replace a human?

 

I don't know about robots, but pretty sure there are rules against hiring a terminator.

 

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/343/c/6/cathedral__the_machines__t800_terminator__by_kevykev_35-d5nje49.jpg

 

The most accurate artist rendition of what JFaS looks like.

Deadpool Buffalo Bisons

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I don't know about robots, but pretty sure there are rules against hiring a terminator.

 

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/343/c/6/cathedral__the_machines__t800_terminator__by_kevykev_35-d5nje49.jpg

 

The most accurate artist rendition of what JFaS looks like.

 

I always pictured him more like Bender...

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