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Dave Dombrowski signs with Boston as President of Baseball Ops
BTS replied to gbill2004's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Victorino = 6.4 fWAR for 39M (3 years) Ross = 1.1 fWAR for 6.1M (2 years) Dempster = 0.5 fWAR for 13.2M (1 year) Uehara = 4.2 fWAR for 8.4M (1 year + option) Gomes = 1 fWAR for 10M (2 years) Napoli = 3.9 fWAR for 8M Drew = 3.4 fWAR for 9.5M Those signings yielded 20.5 fWAR for $94.2M, so they paid $4.6M per win on the market for 20.5 wins over 3 years. That's pretty solid free agent shopping. With no commitments longer than 3 years, IMO that's pretty much an ideal way to use free agency. I'm no big fan of Cherington, but I love how he handled the market at the time. -
Die, min
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Best K/BB of his career, 2nd-best xFIP-, tied for the best swinging strike%, 3rd-best ERA-. You can split hairs and debate which seasons of his are the best, but that's not interesting. The point was that he's as good as ever, or close to it. Actually, that wasn't even the point. The point was that reinvented K-Rod is really, really good
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Pretty fair for both sides. Paxton has legit upside, but he's 27 in a few months and shouldn't be relied on as more than an SP7 or 8 right now. K-Rod has been absolutely lights out and might be having the best year of his career.
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That's dumn. He's been pretty similar to his Coors production of the first 350 PA of the season.
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I was just surprised. Hadn't really looked at the numbers, and knew he was off to a hot start his first few games. Thought he was mashing.
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Wow, Tulo only has a 98 wRC+ since coming over.
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I never use caffeine. Sleep 6/7 hours a night and get through my days with no fatigue. So happy I never developed that addiction.
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Can someone link me to the spreadsheet?
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Maybe you should trade for him.
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Guys, Choo has a 110 wRC+ on the season and 123 since May 1st. He's good again, and not one person has asked about him.
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Def. Utley. More pop than Zobrist.
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Dietrich
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Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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Dave Dombrowski signs with Boston as President of Baseball Ops
BTS replied to gbill2004's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
His offseason was pretty good. Low-risk short-term deals for (IIRC) Victorino, Dempster, Uehara, Drew, Gomes, and Ross put them over the top. He's been mostly terrible, but he made a lot of good moves to create that 2013 team. -
Still willing to sell pieces to help a team win this year: Ethier Choo Turner V-Mart Trumbo Betances Romo Davis Baez Looking for top prospects and a SP or two.
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Is getting hit by pitches a skill? Dietrich has now been hit 27 times in 580 career PA. Almost 5% HBP rate lol.
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So legit.
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I think boxy ironically posted 'your dumn' on the old forum.
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Absent any kind of evidence, that's exactly what Occam's razor would instruct you not to assume. Is there reason to believe it would help him perform? Sure. Is there reason to believe it helps him on a magnitude that it's actually noteworthy when discussing his production as a player? Maybe, but probably not. And so one wouldn't asterisk his career. If they were being reasonable anyway.
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Yes. The simplest explanation for his success? That he's really good at baseball. Assuming that Adderall is effecting his performance by something like 10-20% would be irresponsible.
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You referenced Occam's razor earlier. Using it in this case would lead you to assume he's probably really f***ing good without it.
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*your shtick And to what extent is it effecting, say, Chris Davis the baseball player right now? 20%? Probably not. 5%? 1%? Enough that he should have an asterisk beside his name for all time because he was unfortunate enough to have ADHD? He's currently hitting at 42% above league average. We have no idea what he'd be at without Adderall and ADHD. Maybe 30%. Maybe 50%. But seeing as we actually have no idea what he'd be doing if he didn't have a disorder, I don't think it's fair to attribute all of his success to medication that he's (one of 119 MLB players) taking.
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1. No, but like teenage boys they're in an environment where ADHD is likely to be A) detrimental, and diagnosed. 2. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn't. If it does, to what extent? Does it even matter? If someone with a medical problem is able to treat that problem with medication and operate at a level normal for people without the medical problem, why should he be demonized for taking the medication? Are we going to hate on diabetic players for taking insulin? I really hope it comes out that Stroman or Donaldson are on Adderall. Odds are that at least a couple players on the team are. We can all tear Orioles hangout dumn for saying the things you're saying right now.
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Actually, no. Almost 10% of teenage boys are prescribed ADHD medication. That 9.9% of MLB players are on ADHD medication isn't surprising in that light. Occam's razor would lead one to conclude that most MLB players prescribed ADHD medication are trying to treat a disorder. Some might not be, but that's not really for us to judge. Demonizing the taking of prescription medication used to treat diagnosed health problems, yay!
