KingKat

What's awesome is that the original video is so inherently ridiculous that all you have to do is switch the actors to turn it into full-on comedy. The best satire only requires the slightest exagerration but this required even less than that. It's basically the same dumb video that Kanye made.

Yeah but you're comparing an entire schedule of CFL games to one MLB team so the difference isn't that great, maybe twenty games or so. There may be a few CFL games that aren't televised which would push the number up a little. The audience is probably very different though. The CFL audience is probably more of a rotating cast depending on which cities are playing. Riders games probably skew the average something fierce since from what I hear the whole province of Saskatchewan basically shuts down for them.

Don't know if this helps but I seem to recall that the 9M figure first came up in an interview with the Cleveland front office where they basically just blurted it out. It took off from there.

It's been suggested that Marisnick wasn't making adjustments the team wanted and that he was put in AA specifically so he would fail and learn his lesson.

That's it. I'm done with you, Sanchez.

Anyone else feel a bit of déjà vue when comparing Stroman/Sanchez? How it's a lot like comparing Syndergaard/Sanchez last year. On one side you have the pitcher who gets results and on the other, the guy with the supposedly higher ceiling who doesn't. It's not a perfect comparison because Stroman is closer to the majors than any of them but if AA keeps Sanchez and trades Stroman, I will probably feel like he kept the wrong guy again.

Well it's getting to the fist part that's hard. I don't think anyone had figured out a methodology for determining an expected calls to actual calls formula until Fast came along.

Convert the amount of call to runs, convert the runs to wins?

I'm impressed with Grandal. That bat + 3 calls per game. He's basically all the Padres got for Latos but he may single-handedly justify the trade.

Basically this one. JFAS has quoted some numbers (possibly in this very thread). Unfortunately none of the mainstream sites incoporate it. The day when pitch framing data gets rolled up into WAR is the day WAR might actually properly evaluate the catcher position.

See my post directly above about Nolasco possibly being a FIP/fWAR breaker

The correlation between fWAR (Fangraphs WAR) and actual wins is very strong. There are always outliers, teams who outperform or underperform their cumulative fWAR but the relationshisp is strong. Whatever fWAR misses in terms of individual players does seem for the most part average out over a group of players. That being said there are pitchers who seem to consistently outperform or undeperform their peripherals. When this happens you'll see a big discrepancy between the more peripherals bases fWAR and the more results based bWAR. Nolasco is just such a case. He's been worth 10.8 Wins over his career by bWAR and nearly twice as much by fWAR (20). So this is an interesting case. If you are a fWAR purist, you think Nolasco is basically a three win pitcher and that his batted ball numbers should regress to league norms and stop inflating his ERA. Alternatively, you could believe that Nolasco is basically a fWAR breaker, a guy who will always underperform his peripherals and is basically a no more than average pitcher whose nice K/BB numbers are undermined by an unfortunate tendency to give up good contact.

The differing point of view doesn't really come from him, it comes from those Drew Fairservice tweets. Drew is a pretty smart guy but he also has adopted a firm "fans should always be in favour of any future sacrifices that helps the product on the field now". He'll fight to the death in favour of the Marlins trade or the James Shield trade so there's no way he would be opposed to dealing Sanchez for a Major League piece. That being said, everything he's saying about Sanchez is true. I came into this season pretty down on Sanchez myself and feeling like turning the page might be a good idea but then he got so much hype in the AFL that I lost my nerve when it came to wanting him gone. At what point does a prospect need to show results that are in-line with his supposed upside before you reconsider his upside altogether? Like I said earlier, I was more than ready to turn the page but the AFL showed that there's still a lot of belief out there in his ace potential. Does AFL hype matter or should we just look at the results and say Sanchez is too much of a longshot, let's get a sure thing?

IRL is different because his defense is so good. In real life, he would provide tremendous value if he were merely healthy. In fantasy, he'd have to be both healthy and take a huge offensive stride.

I think Lawrie is overated in fantasy anyways. I'd do this.

I'm going to be a bit of a dick here but I don't understand why people ask questions about salary league trades without listing the salaries. In this case, my guess is that it's worth it but it all depends on the salaries involved.

I'd probably do that.

All the positive value pitch framers are getting locked up. I think there's only Martin Maldonado left among free agents. Beyond that there's the Yankees guys and Hanigan.

AA says the bulk of his money is earmarked for pitching so I don't think there's much higher to aim. Could trade a different pitcher though.

Because the team has many competent relievers and no competent catchers?

Excuse my ignorance but I don't know anything about MGL. Is he also one of the other authors of The Book? Does he have an identity beyond those initials? In any case, that's a terrific compliment he made.

Filled their biggest need and didn't move any of their good young players.

Actually it could be pretty awesome to have someone in AAA that catchers could practice receiving knuckleballs against. Would instantly eliminate the need to carry Nickeas.

Is Freese really such a bad fit for them? They weren't using Boujos optimally and they have an opening for a 3B. Seems like a fairly logical move for a team that's trying to shuffle things around rather then rebuild.

Dave Cameron gets overrated because of his position at FanGraphs but people who are deeper into stats (like Nox for instance) think he's an idiot and not remotely credible as a source of analysis.