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  1. NorthOf49
    Every sample of anything is going to have bunching... you can't just throw out the most pronounced bunches. That's not how stuff works.
  2. NorthOf49
    How can a 47-40 team with a +33 run differential be "average all year"? Think about that for a minute.
  3. NorthOf49
    Would have liked more actual game action included. Too much recycled Jays promo stuff. Also, the Yankees clip at 54 seconds is just of Jesus Montero doing a curtain call after his first ML home run lol. It came in a fairly meaningless game; maybe not the type of inspirational clip you were trying to present. Not bad though, keep it up.
  4. NorthOf49
    Two. Nothing abnormal guys lol
  5. NorthOf49
    They're scoring 4.7 runs a game, that's great. Sonny Gray just happens to be great too.
  6. NorthOf49
    Jeter/Roberts?
  7. NorthOf49
    Tailor-made... Edit: Twice lol
  8. NorthOf49
    I don't think there's much there with Gyorko, to be honest. Derek Dietrich is a free agent second baseman who is a year young, has better career stats, and has just as clear a shot at playing time. Better projections too. Literally the only difference is the distribution of their past production. Because Gyorko's was all concentrated in one season (a fairly arbitrary collection of 182 days), he has a better reputation. Everyone who wanted to give up a second rounder for Gyorko should go rush to grab Dietrich.
  9. NorthOf49
    Ang, this is speculation... "Francoeur seems to fit [the Blue Jays] mold at this stage in his career." The 'source' doesn't say that the Blue Jays have reached out about Francoeur or even that they're internally interested. This isn't a story.
  10. NorthOf49
    Have you actually bothered to see who the fans are voting in? Jeter is the only undeserving player of the bunch and he's somewhat of a special case. The fans are doing a great job.
  11. NorthOf49
    Fangraphs says his max this year is 95.7, so... lol I wish Sportsnet would hype up Stroman more instead. People need to know he's legit and isn't a candidate to get replaced by whoever we trade for.
  12. NorthOf49
    The system that sees sportwriters voting on awards and the HOF is an anachronism anyway. It's a relic of the time when only a couple games a week were on TV (or none at all) and the newspaper didn't adequately cover the entire league. Sportswriters were the best candidates to decide stuff since they traveled with teams and were external people who worked in baseball full-time. The players and coaches didn't have a good handle on what happened elsewhere in the league. Sportwriters did and were a necessary bridge. That doesn't apply in the internet age. They're just regular people now... and many of them are just as biased as your average fan. Some New York scribe would pencil Jeter in at shortstop. The Boston writers would unanimously vote for Ortiz, Napoli and Pedroia.
  13. NorthOf49
    The 15 relief appearance sample probably isn't significant enough to break down into such detail (2 Strike Whiff % per swing and heat maps) but the point is 100% correct. McGowan has been mediocre in both roles this year. We could really use another right-handed reliever.
  14. NorthOf49
    Why? Sportwriters are even worse. Ken Rosenthal wouldn't even put Josh Donaldson on the All Star team and he has Casey McGehee over Joey Votto. And look what writers do to awards voting. At the end of the day, the All-Star Game game is for the fans. If they want to see Derek Jeter take the field one last time, they can have that. The vast majority of the players they vote in are deserving too. The voting process also drums up an enormous amount of engagement in every market. You wouldn't get the build-up if sportswriters voted.
  15. NorthOf49
    Seems like EE will get in as a bench player. Melky really needs help as if he doesn't get voted in as a starter, he may not go at all. And he's very close to Cespedes! Although there will be a real logjam at 1B/DH: Cruz, EE, Cabrera and Abreu. If Farrell takes Ortiz, one of those deserving guys may be out.
  16. NorthOf49
    Yep he's really good. Other owners have been saying for a while that the starting pitching market is frustratingly non-existent. I'm just seeing what's out there.
  17. NorthOf49

    NBA Thread

    NorthOf49 replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Lowry's staying!!! Went to ESPN to check the baseball boxscores and there he was
  18. NorthOf49
    John Lackey is available for the right price. He's a #2 fantasy starter: elite in K/BB, OBPA, decent in everything else. Want an offensive upgrade or perhaps prospect(s).
  19. NorthOf49

    NBA Thread

    NorthOf49 replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    The pie is growing!
  20. NorthOf49
    Sure! It's nice to have something we can both feel good about. *high five*
  21. NorthOf49
    The Sun, 590 and ESPN are garbage too though when it comes to opinion and not pure journalism. Other than a few ESPN writers (e.g. KLaw), nothing from those three sites has ever changed how I thought about a particular situation and so I don't frequent them either. It's a low bar to compare B/R to.
  22. NorthOf49
    I regret throwing in Miguel Montero to my trade for Mauer with jays_fever last year. Montero's bounced back to previous levels and having him would have allowed me to flip McCann or trade Mauer without receiving a catcher in return. The five-team deal didn't work out as hoped because Prince has been a zero, but Rizzo broke out as expected so I'm doing okay. I don't regret making the deal.
  23. NorthOf49
    What gets me is that on the projections and odds slideshows (which make up a good chunk of their content), the writers don't even bother to make the sure the math works out. I just clicked on an end-of-season wins projection update article (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2110050-updated-winloss-projections-for-every-mlb-team-at-the-midseason-mark/) and they doled out 2463 wins... more than a win per team (33) of impossibleness. Why am I going to care about your predictions if they literally CANNOT come true!? And they sensationalize everything, including this admittedly-decent article's title. This idea that you have to respect Bleacher Report because 5% of their articles aren't garbage is ridiculous. I shouldn't have to dig around for 20 minutes to find something decent to read. There's too much stuff on the internet for me to bother.
  24. NorthOf49
    Baseball doesn't need saving. Improving pitcher health is probably a good idea though even if the positive effects are hard to quantify. Maybe better biomechanical data is the answer as this article suggests.
  25. NorthOf49
    Facing an all right-handed lineup! Very peculiar.
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