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Why did you leave?
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Has EE's value ever been so high? My god, what would he fetch right now? -
If Lind would have homered... would that have been the first time players went back to back in the same inning?
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I really think DJ Davis is going to find himself on that list before too long.
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Give me some examples of who you would sign.
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No that's not what I said at all. You said. Which is absolutely wrong. History shows you are wrong. Every year the top 5 or 10 winning pitchers are better as a group then the bottom 5 or 10 most losing pitchers. the fact that an absolute great pitcher can conceivably go 0-30 with an 0.5 era doesn't change that. The fact a pitcher can win a cy young while racking up a tonne of loses doesn't change that..... the fact that pitcher wins is a terrible tool for pitcher evaluation doesn't change that. You are simply wrong.
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Wrong. Yes it's a bad gauge. But what you are saying is incorrect. Just because a very good pitcher can lose a pile of games, doesn't mean, it's just as likely to find great pitchers at the bottom of the win column then at the top.
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That I agree with.
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Really? So if the Jays were to pick 8th next year... they would lose the 11th pick they also get?
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Really? So if you had a team next year... and you could pick a starting rotation of the 5 pitchers with the most wins.... or the 5 pitchers with the most loses, you're telling me that it wouldn't make a difference either way?
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POS? Why the hatred?
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I don't think JPA is a great catcher, I don't think he will end up as one. But the hatred towards him is bordering on the absurd. 90% of the people railing on JPA now, were the same people who railed against EE in 2011..... non stop dfa chants, when he looked lost at the plate. Baseball is a weird sport.... sometimes the simplest changes can make a difference. Who knows. Maybe he hits the velocity program to get his arm a bit better to throw out runners.... maybe EE introduces hime to his Dominican hitting coach.... or supplier.
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What was RR's twtw last year?
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But what if we know the batter only ends up on first?
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I don't think it is static. If you're a player and you're told how important walks are, to the point it messes up your approach at the plate... resulting in a lower OBP, higher K rate, bad counts, ect.... then the pursuit of walking harms the value of the walk.
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Sure there is. You're hearing walks are not important, when people are in fact arguing they are over rated. Which is a completely different argument. Arguing facebook stock is overvalued, isn't saying it's bad to own stock in facebook.
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The other ting is this. Once you get into the post season and good pitching largely takes over... I find teams that rely heavily on walks... just get set down a lot more. I thought that fit the Yankees a bit in the post season the last few years.... I think it will win you a bunch of games to get you there, but once you are there it can sometimes be a bit of a liability... that is trying to see a lot of pitches and then being down 0-2 and 1-2 a lot.
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No.... if you get 650 walks/yr... that means you are successful in the pursuit of walks. Again... I'm not saying they are unimportant. ... Also 650 walks, is a tonne of walks.
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Really? Just exactly how valuable walks are? Spot on exact?
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There is no chance of that.
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Overrated... not- not important.
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How is Luis Perez doing?
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It can't hurt.
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The thing about walks..... is that so long they were wayyyy underrated, that when it was discovered how important they were....... they became overrated. More in the sense that I think a lot of players hurt themselves and their team in pursuit of walks.... taking to many pitches from a strike thrower, means you K much more.
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Was listening to an interview with Johnson's agent, Matt Sosnick? http://pmd.fan590.com/audio_on_demand-3/Matt-Sosnick-with-Jeff-Blair-jb-20130725-Interview.mp3 Yeah, he's a little bit full of s***.... but what I got from it was that he is basically saying that if AA offers Johnson a qualifying offer that Johnson will most likely take it? Is that correct? I don't know, might be a smart roll of the dice. He can't be that bad again.... can he?
