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  1. John_Havok
    Too late. A f***ing blind man could see Manoah shouldn’t have been in there
  2. John_Havok
    Manoah has to come out…like now. He’s not even close right now. Whatever has him off, he needs to get out before he walks the bases loaded for the top of the lineup….which of course means Charlie would put in our worst reliever to give up a bases clearing double.
  3. John_Havok
    Depends on the type of pitcher. Guys like Ryu would likely be done a great disservice as the hitters would be less likely to offer at the borderline pitches with 2 strikes, which the human umps get wrong a lot more often than balls in the zone. It will all come down to how the zones are programmed for each hitter, and how much data the teams are going to be eligible to get after the games.
  4. John_Havok
    Of course. They were leading baseball prior to this cold stretch at .282 A two week cold stretch does not define a season.
  5. John_Havok
    You might want to look up the MLB stats on RISP. Jays are hitting .267 with RISP, which is 3rd in MLB trailing the #1 and #2 places teams who are at .271 (Houston and Washington)
  6. John_Havok
    There was an article on baseball america about it, and they said hard throwers at the top of the zone benefitted greatly becauase that's the strike that the human ump doesnt call. However, they also found the low strike that human umps tend to call, wasn't called. They also found that the left and right side of the zone borderline calls greatly benefitted the hitter. No more human ump strike zone expansion on 3-0 and 2 strike counts, which is when the majority of those calls get blown by human umps. Frank Viola is on one the teams in the league using it and he said the command/control guys really get stifled because they don't get the benefit of the human umps being swayed by framing etc. He also said, of course, that it's far from perfected and will only get better over time.
  7. John_Havok
    Heh, drainage system ain't the problem in this case, since there's nowhere for it to drain. But, few things make me happier than anything bad that happens to the Yankees org.
  8. John_Havok
    They've been using robo-umps in the minors this year - run scoring is up in those leagues as well, due in large part to the increased walks.
  9. John_Havok
    My only disagreement is that under that system, a 20 year old star player is under team control for nearly 10 years with no chance at free agency until he's 30. Sure... he could likely be paid well having gone through arbitration 6+ times, but then there's 0 competition for his services each and every offseason, which could be highly beneficial to him if he hit free agency at 27, rather than 30. That's my only real concern. An age based system would greatly benefit the players that are maybe slightly above average or lower, but star players that are up before they are 23 wouldn't have the same type of freedom to land that mega-deal.
  10. John_Havok
    Simple compromise would be like anything else, have both an age and a service time, they go to FA whichever threshold is crossed first. I swear some of these negotiations drag out unnecessarily just for ego's sake. Like with the last NHL lockout thing, everyone and their dog knew they would eventually settle at 50/50 revenue split...yet it took months to formalize it.
  11. John_Havok
    That opening section with the horns and s*** is legit. Aside from maybe Steel Dragon's "Stand up and Shout", maybe the most iconic opening ever.
  12. John_Havok
    So he's just a meme at this point then, lol. Gotcha, thanks for catching me up
  13. John_Havok
    True story, except Rowdy isnt likely a 115 wRC bat. He had a hot month, and has bottomed out completely since then. 72 wRC+ in August after his great July. There's really nothing in his line that indicates he's on the verge of some breakout.
  14. John_Havok
    Wow, I've heard some dumb s*** come out of Tabby's mouth... but giving credit to Montoyo for the starting rotation talent because he was a bench coach in Tampa and a player in Montreal.... How is that analysis?
  15. John_Havok
    About the worst AB you'll see tonight right there. Swings through both borderlines pitches, watches the meatball.
  16. John_Havok
    dafuk... Gurriel walked?
  17. John_Havok
    Fine. Charlie Montoyo reminds me of the Eastern Musk Turtle.
  18. John_Havok
    Yeah, bWAR uses actual runs given up in their calcs rather than FIP which is what Fangraphs uses. I also misspoke earlier when i said that his HRs given up were the only thing hurting him. His runners stranded rate is also pretty god-tier and unsustainable which is another reason his fWAR takes a hit. See of all the top tier pitchers, Ray has the lowest babip, highest strand rate, doesn't have the best K rate (but it's still great) or walk rate (again still pretty good), and the lowest ground ball rate. Each of those factors, since they get normalized to a degree with fWAR calcs, take him down ever so slightly but bWAR doesnt care about that.
  19. John_Havok
    He just gives up too many HRs, that's pretty much his only problem when it comes to fWAR.
  20. John_Havok
    Which turtle species? I'll then decide if it's worthy.
  21. John_Havok
    He had a hot July, nothing really indicating he's going to suddenly break out. His August was putrid.
  22. John_Havok
    Reminds me of the scene in Moneyball where he tells Art Howe he can't play Pena at 1st anymore.
  23. John_Havok
    This is Grichuk's reminder that he needs to have a blistering September to make up for the last 3 months of garbage. It will be worth it.
  24. John_Havok
    Wonder what the rule would be if the starter for a team in a game that was going to be continued later was traded to that other team, and was called out of the bullpen for his new team when they did the makeup game. Would he be in the boxscore as playing on both teams for the same game?
  25. John_Havok
    Good, because Ray is outpitching Matz by leaps and bounds, Matz is just having one super lucky month with stranding runners and HR suppression - both really far out of line with his career norms. His fielding independent numbers are pretty unimpressive. Ray is an unlucky May from being the clear Cy Young frontrunner in the AL. that's not to say I would be averse to re-signing Matz either, he's a solid #4/5, but he's not close to Ray's talent.
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