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  1. G-Snarls
    7:05pm Blue Jays (T Redmond - R) @ Orioles (C. Tillman - R) Gametime Forecast: 70°F • Clear • 0%PoP 1. Joe Bloe Reyes (S) SS 2. Money Kawasaki (L) DH 3. Brat Lawrie ® 3B 4. Adumn Lind (L) 1B 5. Ruben's sandwich Sierra ® RF 6. Anything Gose (L) CF 7. P. U. Arencibia ® C 8. Tiger Goins (L) 2B 9. Pillar of Society ® LF 1. Brian Roberts (S) 2B 2. Nate McLouth (L) LF 3. Adam Jones ® CF 4. Chris Davis (L) 1B 5. Matt Wieters (S) C 6. Nick Markakis (L) RF 7. J.J. Hardy ® SS 8. Dan Johnson (L) DH 9. Ryan Flaherty (L) 3B
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    Mm hmmm. And about 1-2% would buy tickets if they brought in a middling national league team.
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    Right. But being an above average hitter contributes a lot more to runs and wins than being an above average base stealer. Your numbers (and WAR) recognize that.
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    All true. And this keeps the weighting of each component in mind. For runs +/-, hitting is more important than defense, and both are much more important than base running.
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    Can find later. I read about it earlier in the season when I wondered about the Bickford pick.
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    We would lose the second round pick only
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    Agree re your team "needing" to make the playoffs. That's silly. And I recognize that there is some inherent unfairness in making the award refer to "the most valuable player to his team". It's not a players fault what team he's on (usually). And the term MVP doesn't necessarily have to mean that. But that's what most voting baseball writers think it means and so do I.
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    And again, this is where "MVP" is vague. There are so many ways of looking at it. We're splitting hairs and I have a headache from it. Peace.
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    That's where we differ the most in opinion. I think the award should represent the opposite. Whoever is most valuable to his team.
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    Yes. If I could have either player right now for free to start a team I'd take Trout.
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    Hahaha, probably not. I just think that when one player on a team is so much better than everyone else on it, WAR might underestimate their contribution. This could obviously apply to Trout too, but his team has so many flaws that losing him might have less of an impact. Am I right or wrong? Don't know, it's impossible to say. Obviously I'm of the opinion that the team around you matters to who you deem "most valuable", and many people don't feel that way. Best player vs most valuable player are subtly different. All that said? I'd take either player in a heartbeat, and probably Trout first, if I was building team from scratch. I just think that on their teams, removing Cabrera from the Tigers is more devastating than removing Trout from the Angels.
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    I'm sure it is very good. But not perfect, how could it be? And I think there are impacts a player can have that don't show up on a stat sheet anyway. Not just intangibles, but how other players in the lineup are affected, how opposing players pitch to them, how many risks the manager takes, etc. He cements that lineup. Removing Cabrera from that Tigers lineup would leave such a massive void, I just think the loss of wins would be more than WAR would suggest. (caveat: pure opinion, but I think a fairly common one)
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    Because WAR is perfect at telling us how many more games a team would lose if a player left. Riiiggghhtt...
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    NFL Thread

    G-Snarls replied to Dylan's topic in Other Sports

    It's crazy Giants especially. Like WTH??? NOTHING is working.
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    I see it as "the player who is most valuable to his team." Not the player with the most statistical WAR, though that stat obviously does a very good job of showing you who the best players are. This concept is easiest to consider as the player that would have most negative impact if removed from his team. That is probably Miguel Cabrera to me, even though Trout is amazing too. Take Miggy out of that lineup and the Tigers are suddenly a much, MUCH worse team.
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    From an Alouettes article on Sportenet: Alouettes chief operating officer Mark Weightman said the team opted for its outdoor field because of concerns a snowfall could postpone the match in the Big O. Olympic Stadium cannot be used if it snows due to an unstable roof. Sooo.... What if it snows March 27/28???
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    Yeah! (can we kill this thread now???)
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    NFL Thread

    G-Snarls replied to Dylan's topic in Other Sports

    Super pumped. Rounded up 4 guys to go see Broncos @ New England Nov. 24. Can't wait! Will be wearing this: (under a sweater LOL) http://nflshop.frgimages.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=%2fproductImages%2f_908000%2fff_908188_xl.jpg&w=400
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    Those three guys + Albert Pujols, David Ortiz and Robinson Cano probably = approx 60% of the GDP of the Dominican Republic. So would be good for the economy there too. #KeepThosePesosAtHome
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    Look at that picture. Jays might as well move to Santo Domingo. Less travel time for most of the good players.
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    Hehe Edwin FTW
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    Apparently nobody ( like really almost nobody) watched that game: Astros draw 0.0 Nielsen TV rating in Houston market during loss to Indians http://mlb.si.com/2013/09/23/houston-astros-nielsen-rating/?sct=hp_t2_a12&eref=sihp
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    I'm also going to go ahead and presume that JP's absence from the promotional picture confirms that he will be off the roster by march. http://cdn.evenko.ca/_uploads/event/7739/splash.jpg
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    Yep. I guess they are! http://www.evenko.ca/html/tickets/baseball/index_en.html
  25. G-Snarls
    Article suggesting tickets already on sale. Never heard this before??? The tickets have only been on sale for a few days but more than 40,000 total have already been sold for the games.
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