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  1. KingKat
    If this team doesn't have enough information about how to get JPA out...
  2. KingKat
    Do you really think that kind of silly snark belongs in a thread where not only are the flaws of projections being discussed but one poster has actually shared the concrete steps he has taken to improve them?
  3. KingKat
    Is that why Buehrle and Kershaw get projected too low? Nox? JFAS?
  4. KingKat
    Rany is pretty great. I should probably follow him more closely.
  5. KingKat
    #Analysis
  6. KingKat
    Pretty sure that's exactly the opposite of what he said. He's talking top 10 for all of baseball. That's not Norris.
  7. KingKat
    So what's the lineup going to be with Gose instead of Reimold? Is Bautista going back to RF or are Gose and Mastro going to split time there while Bautista splits time between 1B and DH (presumably DH against RHP and 1B against LHP)?
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  9. KingKat
    Man, great read. Incidentally, it not only explains why Buehrle consistently out-performs his projections but also why Clayton Kershaw does the same (Clayton Kershaw hasn’t reached 1,600 innings yet, but he actually has a higher pickoff rate than Buehrle.)
  10. KingKat
    A blogger? You mean Blair? Now Blair isn't exactly Rosenthal but I think he can legitimatelly be called a reporter. And he's not just reporting on the fact that he's with the Bisons (which is nothing new) but the fact that he's been transferred to the Bisons bullpen for the purposes of the callup. Now maybe Blair is full of s***. That's possible but you're stretching the truth a fair bit to make that point.
  11. KingKat
    Would you also characterize the fans who didn't like breaking camp with Sierra and Goins as bitter fans? Frankly, I'm not sure what this organization has done to deserve blind faith.
  12. KingKat
    That's better but it's hardly great and it's in a small sample to boot. If anything that just confirms that this is ill conceived.
  13. KingKat
    The Jays themselves have done it quite a few times in the past. I don't hate it as an organizational strategy but usually it's done with succesful starters for which you don't have room otherwise. The reason it was dumb in Stroman's case is that it seemed pretty likely that he would be needed for the rotation and it was better to have him stay stretched out. It's for the best that he didn't dominate as a reliever and was returned to the rotation. It's dumb for Sanchez because we don't even know that he's a succesful starter at this point. His track record of success is minimal. He's mostly struggled.
  14. KingKat
    He basically just played golf. He didn't even bother to learn to use the Internet despite having nothing but spare time.
  15. KingKat
    Some organizations might think like this. I would like to think most don't. One of the ones that I most suspect would think like this is the Jays so maybe they're projecting their own thought processes unto other teams or maybe the trade value on Sanchez has sunk so much that they need a Hail Mary. What I actually believe is that this is some sort of weird compromise where they are trying to get some short term value out of Sanchez without actually trading him. There's a non-negligible chance of the former. I think this is stupid/desperate in any case.
  16. KingKat
    Why would they do this if they plan to trade him? To hurt his value?
  17. KingKat
    Pretty sure Paul Godfrey has put in as much or more time as team president over the last 20+ years than Beest has. Hardly a constant.
  18. KingKat
    I'm not saying it makes sense but neither does calling up Sanchez in the first place which is the real issue. At least this way, there's still a chance they'll change their minds.
  19. KingKat
    That's probably the least eggregious part of this. Maybe road testing the theory that he's more effective out of the pen will make them change their minds.
  20. KingKat
    Worked really well with Stroman and Sanchez is a much more effective pitcher. Oh wait...
  21. KingKat
    I also think that paying a heavy cost to aquire Price without addressing the infield could potentially be a disaster for this club. I know that some would argue that the two aren't mutually exclusive but recent history suggests otherwise. Last year, Dickey, Johnson and Buehrle were brought in while the team tried to make the best of two backups at the 2B position. This year, AA PURSUED pitching (as we are lead to believe by his own statements) while seemingly ignoring 2B and the bench. Stars and scrub has been the M.O. for this club. It would be nice if for once, the team focused on the less expensive goal of giving less PAs to scrubs rather than paying a heavy price (once again) for pitching help (even if it superior to previous pitching help).
  22. KingKat
    When you're looking at the different options, you have to look at the cost benefit analysis and it seems to me that adding an extra infielder has the potential to provide the most benefit for the cost (with the caveat that we don't know the actual cost). Pitching doesn't come cheap and it doesn't come easily, we saw that in the off-season.
  23. KingKat
    I wasn't really distinguishing between the two. Both are a mixed bag.
  24. KingKat
    What do you mean by value calcs? Are you saying there's a metric out there for valuing prospects that ignores those factors or are you just substituting value calc for opinion? Because the metric devised by Fangraphs and the opinions coming from Fangraphs are two different things. You wouldn't expect a metric to be so eggregiously and obviously flawed. If you're just talking about opinions coming from the larger Fangraphs community than you're critiquing something barely worth discussing.
  25. KingKat
    Speedy > CatAss > Boxy for me but I like Russell a lot less than just about everyone else does.
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