Around Baseball 2015

[Followthelight]

Johnny Cueto Song

 

Vs

 

Colby Rasmus Song

 

What did I just see? it hurts.

[baloojayz]

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/powerrangers.gif

 

"Why have you forsaken us" lol

[TwistedLogic]

For anyone that wants to follow and see how it goes, Jim Duquette, Kevin Millar, Rob Neyer and Brian Kenny are going to call the Astros/Giants game tonight on MLB Network. They want to see what happens if you put a former player, a former executive, and two sabermetric guys in the booth to call a game using advanced stats and analysis.

[HERPDERP]

For anyone that wants to follow and see how it goes, Jim Duquette, Kevin Millar, Rob Neyer and Brian Kenny are going to call the Astros/Giants game tonight on MLB Network. They want to see what happens if you put a former player, a former executive, and two sabermetric guys in the booth to call a game using advanced stats and analysis.

 

Should've got Kevin Barker.

[KingKat]

For anyone that wants to follow and see how it goes, Jim Duquette, Kevin Millar, Rob Neyer and Brian Kenny are going to call the Astros/Giants game tonight on MLB Network. They want to see what happens if you put a former player, a former executive, and two sabermetric guys in the booth to call a game using advanced stats and analysis.

 

Well I guess they'll know what happens when you get those four specific people to call this particular game.

[CHRIS]

Should've got Kevin Barker.

 

Or as Kevin Barker would suggest, "Shoulda done got Kevin Barker".

[HERPDERP]

Reyes hitting .213, OPS of .517 since the trade. We broke his soul, guys.

[KingKat]

Reyes hitting .213, OPS of .517 since the trade. We broke his soul, guys.

 

Man it's gotta hurt to see how much better the team is without him.

[Followthelight]

Man it's gotta hurt to see how much better the team is without him.

 

Yeah it must, Tulo's defense alone greatly improves the team.

[G-Snarls]

Reyes hitting .213, OPS of .517 since the trade. We broke his soul, guys.

 

But Walt Weiss said today that he is "rallying the clubhouse" and that the other players are "energized by his presence"

 

That's worth more than getting on base, scoring runs, and getting to sharply hit ground balls, right? Right?!?!?!

[Captain Adama]

For anyone that wants to follow and see how it goes, Jim Duquette, Kevin Millar, Rob Neyer and Brian Kenny are going to call the Astros/Giants game tonight on MLB Network. They want to see what happens if you put a former player, a former executive, and two sabermetric guys in the booth to call a game using advanced stats and analysis.

 

Brian Kenny calling a game is something I wanna see

[Angrioter]

Stache-Cast

[Molitor]

Seriously, that doesn't seem like an improbability. But then, the Jays had loaded bases something like 154 times at Yankee stadium over the course of the last 40 years and Smoak was the first Jay to hit a grand slam. Numbers are funny.

 

Yeah this does seem odd at first glance but the numbers do work.

-Assume home team wins approx 55% of the time (this is generous, I've read that it's closer to 53%)

-Assume four days per week where all 30 teams are in action over a 6 month period (104 opportunities a season)

 

Based on those, you would expect it to happen once every 7800 opportunities or once every 75 seasons. Also there has only been 30 teams since 1998 so it's even less surprising that it hasn't happened.

 

 

The grand slam one is definitely beating the odds though if they've had 154 opportunities.

[TwistedLogic]

Brian Kenny calling a game is something I wanna see

 

Well, you can see it here, starting right now (3:30 PM EST).

 

http://cricfree.sx/mlb-netowrk-live-stream

[TwistedLogic]

[Captain Adama]

 

Cherrington getting fired?

[Frenchsoup]

Brian Kenny calling a game is something I wanna see

 

yeah he's smart and funny, a good watch indeed.

[HERPDERP]

Regarding Davis...it will be interesting to see what/who offers for his services. The guy is pretty much like Hamilton. You don't know what you're going to get. The hottest player in baseball or the worse...

 

I wonder if we'll roll the dice on him.

[Captain Adama]

Well, you can see it here, starting right now (3:30 PM EST).

 

http://cricfree.sx/mlb-netowrk-live-stream

 

This broadcast is terrific, everyone should be watching this if they're able.

[L54]

This broadcast is terrific, everyone should be watching this if they're able.

 

First two minutes in and I'm loving it.

[HERPDERP]

Giants/Phillies have talked prospect/Utley trade

[GD]

First two minutes in and I'm loving it.

 

it's a lot better Buck and Pat lol

[LTR]

Congrats to Dee Gordon on his 6th career HR!

[baubau]

I wonder if we'll roll the dice on him.

 

 

- Boras client

- This team is better investing in a pitcher than a hitter

[closetjaysfan]

if you turn off the sound there is a clear winner

[jaysfan2014]

- Boras client

- This team is better investing in a pitcher than a hitter

 

Plus, we have enough 1B guys under control (EE/Smoak/Colabello) for next year.

[Orgfiller]

I watched a few innings of the MLB broadcast, and while I found it very much enjoyable, I have a few comments about it:

 

-I get it, you can't shove wOBA and wRC+ down people's throats, but as both are better models that assess hitting performance, I felt they should have at least introduced them as the valuable statistics than they are rather than focus on OPS and OPS+ like they did for most of the broadcast.

 

-Despite the attempt at utilizing more advanced statistics, guys like Millar still went on long rants where he valued RBI and batting average higher. It's inevitable that the casual in the booth would go to the traditional statistics that he knows at heart, but having dedicated portions where one guy talks about the value of "run producing" is annoying if their focus is to ease fans into more indicative stats of performance. Arguing that Cespedes was a better fit for the Mets than Carlos Gomez because the former has a greater chance to produce 90-100 RBI and is "a presence at the plate" is cringy.

 

-Umps suck, there's no doubt about it, but I would have appreciated if they mentioned something about catcher framing. Both teams (Giants and Astros) employ good framers, their contributions could have been noted rather than acting dumbfounded whenever there was a bad strike call or when a pitch that was clearly a ball almost looked like a strike.

[GD]

When they did talk about pitch framing, Pierzynski raised very good points about how some pitchers are easier to frame than others and how umps call games differently. The crew never addressed that these are all adjusted for.

[Captain Adama]

I watched a few innings of the MLB broadcast, and while I found it very much enjoyable, I have a few comments about it:

 

-I get it, you can't shove wOBA and wRC+ down people's throats, but as both are better models that assess hitting performance, I felt they should have at least introduced them as the valuable statistics than they are rather than focus on OPS and OPS+ like they did for most of the broadcast.

 

-Despite the attempt at utilizing more advanced statistics, guys like Millar still went on long rants where he valued RBI and batting average higher. It's inevitable that the casual in the booth would go to the traditional statistics that he knows at heart, but having dedicated portions where one guy talks about the value of "run producing" is annoying if their focus is to ease fans into more indicative stats of performance. Arguing that Cespedes was a better fit for the Mets than Carlos Gomez because the former has a greater chance to produce 90-100 RBI and is "a presence at the plate" is cringy.

 

-Umps suck, there's no doubt about it, but I would have appreciated if they mentioned something about catcher framing. Both teams (Giants and Astros) employ good framers, their contributions could have been noted rather than acting dumbfounded whenever there was a bad strike call or when a pitch that was clearly a ball almost looked like a strike.

 

I gotta agree with a few of your gripes, I wished they focused more on wOBA and wRC than OPS, but meh, you take the small victories when you can. I'll give some credit to Milar, while what he said through the majority of the broadcast was cringy, later in the show he did open up a bit to run producing stats and admitted it at the end of the broadcast.

 

With all the Roboump talk, sounded like Kenny was channeling his inner Deadpool. Pierzynski said robo umps might be tolerable if they come with a punching bag. But for now, catcher framing, very important!

[Orgfiller]

Why did Around Baseball become the poll for Ang's dumn thread? Wtf?