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I give up. Jimcanuck and saskjayfan are two very stupid and stubborn men.
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It's crazy because old-school baseball guys have been talking about pitch framing since the dawn of time. Now that we can actually throw a number on it, those same guys are suddenly afraid of the concept. saskjaysfan has been watching baseball for a long time. If there were no pitch framing data he'd probably pick up on Navarro's poor framing just by watching him receive every night.
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Jesus Christ
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The bullpen is irrelevant to a discussion about things that could have been done to prevent the wasted season. Defense is accounted for in the fWAR. The fact is that you're going to have a hard time ever making the playoffs if you don't understand where wins come from and waste huge amounts of playing time on bad players. And it's not even surprising. Before the season a lot of posters had reservations about the back half of the 25-man this season. The depth was never there, and it's been a problem here for awhile.
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Navarro is one of the worst pitch-framers in baseball. He's literally bad enough to eliminate virtually all the value his bat provides.
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What a stupid post. They were 10th in baseball in positional fWAR (worse if you account for Navarro's framing). Guys like Bautista, Edwin, Melky, Lind, and Reyes delivered this year. They were mostly healthy, and extremely productive as a group. To top it off, the rotation was better than anyone could have expected. Now consider that a quarter of the playing time was wasted on replacement-level talent that was clearly replacement level before the games were played, and I don't know how you can see this season as anything other than an opportunity wasted by incompetence and inattention to detail. There were wins to be added there. Easy wins. They didn't add them.
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Not to belabor the point, but look what guys like Turner and Van Slyke have done from the bench for LA, or what Oakland has done with their great depth. Then look at how the back half of Toronto's roster was cobbled together seemingly without any kind of plan. It's been that way for five years now under this regime.
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Last year the bullpen was the strength of the team, and the one area that didn't need to be improved on heading into 2014. This year, the same cast of characters single-handedly cost the team the playoffs, apparently. There's a lesson to be learned here: worry about a rotation that's 5-deep and lineup/bench that's 12-deep, and support those guys with quality talent in AAA. The bullpen will sort itself out. Or it won't. But it's such a crapshoot that investing in it while having other holes in the roster is a terrible idea. The 2014 Jays were replacement-level at 2B and C. They've given over 1600 plate appearances to Navaro, Kawasaki, Pillar, Thole, Diaz, Mastroianni, Reimold, Johnson, Goins, and Sierra. That's more than 26% of playing time wasted on replacement-level scrubs that the FO should have known were replacement-level. The quickest way to improve is to cut the fat. But they won't.
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lmao
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If Happ, Stroman and Hutch win one more game each
BTS replied to Dick_Pole's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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The Sens board is unreadable. I've been there since like 2005 and post maybe 10 times a year.
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They should. Khudobin is awesome.
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Market inefficiency. I snatch up talented players burdened by phonetically displeasing names.
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I think Darcy Kuemper is going to be the starter in Minny by season's end. At least I hope he is. I've been waiting on him for 5 years in my other league.
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They're more valuable in fantasy than in real life. NHL teams can pretty much choose anyone and be fine, but in fantasy you need 2-3 of the guys that NHL teams have decided to give 50+starts to.
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But ahead of Peralta in the 7th round you have: Swisher Parker Middlebrooks Anderson Weeks Cahill Crawford Howard Rutledge Peralta was like mid-tier for the round in terms of value contributed. That's crazy.
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Heyward, Simmons, Gattis, Upton, Freeman is a really nice core. Five studs aged 25-28. Add in Kimbrel Teheran, Wood, and Medlen and the foundation is there. Can we please hire Wren?
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It's gonna be so fun to roll over 2-goalie chumps.
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I bet Peralta has actually had more value than a lot of 8th/9th rounders since the draft.
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My body is ready.
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Sami Salo = Joel Peralta ?
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Why? The draft was yesterday and and I didn't draft any IR or NA guys. Anyone I wanted on the waiver wire I would have just taken...
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How many keepers do we have anyway?
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I don't. No roster spots.
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lol, Spanky has a claim in on Mrazek.
