How did the Giants assemble of team of players with such amazing names? Buster Posey, Brandon Belt, Hunter Pence, Joe Panik, Madison Bumgarner, the list goes on.
I think one of the great untapped market inefficiencies in sport is hiring female managers. Somewhere on planet earth there is a woman who realizes that your best pitcher should see the field in a one game wildcard.
Way too much energy is spent in these lineup debates. Just bat your good hitters at the top of the order back to back, stick the players who can't hit at the bottom, and break up lefties if possible so opposing managers can't abuse LOOGYs. It isn't rocket science.
There are occasional games which are only on Sportsnet World but it probably isn't worth it to subscribe to that station imo. I don't know how all the Friday games this year will affect things.
Basically every poster at the time thought that the Cordero acquisition was a disaster. The Storen thing is weird because I was actually quite excited to see him here. I figure he's going to bounce back next season unless he's hurt.
What is it that the stats miss about some pitchers? Mark Buehrle did this for years and years. I have a hard time believing that it is all down the pitcher defense.