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Missed the GDT but caught the game, great win tonight! Let's go for the A's win streak haha!

Damn... that's tough. Dickey Buehrle Morrow Rogers Hutchison

Opening P: Dickey Rotation: Happ Hutchison Romero Shortstop: Kawasaki Second base: Izturis Pinch runner: Davis 1B: Lind Catching: Thole Set up man: Cecil Closing Lol Janssen

I would rather not.

Are we allowed to post our lists yet? I just finished mine and I really want to haha.

Holy s***, you dare try and steal the title of resident Kalfus homer from me? I WILL DEFEND MY TITLE WITH HONOR! And if you are our almighty Kalfus, WELCOME TO THE BOARD OUR SAVIOR!

I think it was stated in the article that it's kind of noise, that it doesn't correlate too well season to season. Didn't see any data on that though.

God damnit

My quick, "oh s*** I'm about to be late for school why did I even do this" list 1.) Aaron Sanchez 2.) Roberto Osuna 3.) Marcus Stroman 4.) Phil Bickford 5.) A.J. Jimenez 6.) Daniel Norris 7.) Matt Smoral 8.) D.J. Davis 9.) Sean Nolin 10.) Alberto Tirado 11.) Mitch Nay 12.) Franklin Barreto 13.) Anthony Alford 14.) Dawel Lugo 15.) Andy Burns 16.) Adonys Cardona 17.) Kevin Pillar 18.) John Stilson 19.) Chase DeJong 20.) Dalton Pompey 21.) Deck McGuire 22.) Dwight Smith Jr. 23.) Jacob Anderson 24.) Clinton Hollon 25.) Christian Lopes 26.) Santiago Nessy 27.) Jeremy Gabryszwski 28.) Tom Robson 29.) Tyler Gonzales 30.) Danny Barnes 31.) Zak Wasilewski 32.) Yeyfry Del Rosario 33.) Chris Hawkins 34.) Matthew Dean 35.) Griffin Murphy 36.) Seth Conner 37.) Nick Baligod 38.) Justin Jackson 39.) Nathan Desouza 40.) Gustavo Pierre 41.) Michael Crouse 42.) Marcus Knecht 43.) Ryan Borucki 44.) Richard Urena 45.) Javier Avedando 46.) Jairo Lambourt 47.) Richard Urena 48.) Brendan Kalfus 49.) Michael De La Cruz 50.) Jesus Gonzalez

I keep noticing threads getting randomly locked after mods post in them.

We had a teacher last year who teaches two different classes, same subject, and my class's average was higher than the other's. So she gave us (not them) a RIDICULOUSLY hard test to lower our averages. Did horribly. The highest mark from anyone was a low 80. The ones that I know that do it are just lazy as hell in general.

This is how to tell how good a teacher is. The best ones care more careful than this. It's telling that a lot of my teachers do this haha.

Ruben can't resist JPA's #RBIz and AA definitely can't resist all that #vetrinpresents in the clubhouse over there. Two terrible GMs negotiating would be entertaining lol.

#AaronSanchezforDelmonYoung #GiterdoneAA

When I say valuable, I mean contributing to his team's winning. If the 2.5 player went 1/3 every day and the 3.0 player went 0/3, 0/3, 3/3, the first player may help his team more. That'd probably be a WAR/WPA comparison.

For players, not teams? I would assume more than one season. I wonder, like a comment suggested, if it's possible that a 2.5 WAR player who's consistent is more valuable than a 3.0 WAR one that's wildly inconsistent. Probably not but it's definitely food for thought.

#top2player #Pujolslevel

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/does-consistent-play-help-a-team-win/ http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/offensive-volatility-and-beating-win-expectancy/ Some nice reading material on it. Makes me hate the O's a bit more lol.

It's more of a fun fact / another reason to hate JPA, as if we needed one. Plus, the issue of consistency is interesting. Would going (0/3, 0/3, 3/3) or going (1/3, 1/3, 1/3) as a pattern throughout your season be more beneficial to your team? Makes me wonder.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/hitter-volatility-through-mid-june/ Behind only Albert Pujols. I don't know how credible the stat is but it seems interesting. The Jays are up there as a team, as well.

I think Porcello would make more of an immediate impact. If he can keep his K/9 over 7, that is.

We're playing exactly to our pytho of 33.09 wins, maybe 1 win unlucky. LOL I just realized that Johnson pitched in game 69.

Kalfus deserves a day off after single handedly winning the game last night. And maybe he'll come in and hit a couple dingers off the bench if he feels like it.

Good example would be Rick Porcello.

#Lovethisteam