TwistedLogic

Anyone else get weirdly optimistic about Alford after seeing Donaldson talking to him about hitting in so much detail on that MLB Network video?

http://i.imgur.com/JQlk2Vw.png

Who are you? Edit: Oh you left a comment before mine. No, I wasn't responding to you. I haven't read what you wrote.

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=0&season=2017&month=33&season1=2017&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=15,a This is a shitpost.

Laine got to play on a line with Scheifele and still didn't post the raw numbers Matthews did. The Calder is Matthews' and it isn't really close.

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Highlight Kendrys Morales Grand Slam

Hard to get scammed if you don't pay till you have a working subscription. Another forum where people are selling their codes: https://slickdeals.net/f/9829299-t-mobile-customers-mlb-tv-premium-mlb-com-at-bat-premium-free?page=66#commentsBox

Is getting a year-long subscription to MLB.TV for 5-10 bucks really worthy of promotion?

I saw this thread on reddit so I tried it out and it actually worked, lol. I came here to post it but I'm not surprised someone already did. The guy who contacted me didn't even ask for my login info. He just gave me his phone number and a link to a login portal where you don't even need to use the s***** app. Got a year-long working subscription, guy only asked for $5 via PayPal. Edit: So apparently it's not a universal portal that everyone can use, since the link I used is now disabled. I guess the T-Mobile customer has to create a link. Anyway, this still works. The safest way to go about it is to create a new MLB.TV account and use a temporary password that you simply change after getting the promotion.

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A familiar friend?

This is probably a stupid question for a reason that I'm overlooking, but why has nobody ever suggested the idea of simply getting pitchers to wear batting helmets?

I don't like his writing either. His s***** piece where he rates all the good and bad offseason moves really irritated me. How do you call the Red Sox trade for Thornburg a bad move? Apparently because they signed Mitch Moreland at some point afterwards. Cameron sucks.

Ah, didn't know about the FanGraphs thing. Gonna check that out now. I guess this means Reddit > FanGraphs confirmed. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/statcast-and-the-future-of-war/

For anyone wondering how this information can be accessed: Where can I get it? By Opening Day, 2015-16 Catch Probability numbers for all tracked outfield batted balls will be added to BaseballSavant.com searches, which will also allow custom leaderboards to be created. Once the new season starts, you'll be able to see Catch Probability in near-real time on BaseballSavant, MLB Gameday and selected broadcasts on MLB Network and other outlets. Really? I've had these pages open on my iPad for a day or two now, I was going to post it last night but I fell asleep lol.

Statcast introduces Catch Probability for 2017 By Mike Petriello, MLB.com Columnist Perhaps more than any other area of baseball, measuring outfield defense has always been made more difficult simply because perception, in so many cases, is not reality. Which outfielder made the better play -- the one who made a flying grab to catch the ball, or the one who made the exact same play look easy because he was faster or took a better route? You know which one of those plays made it onto nightly highlight reels for the last three decades, and for so much of that time, it was the eye test that ruled the day. But in the back of your mind, you always knew that there's no such thing as style points when grading defense. You knew that sometimes the play that didn't look like anything special was actually extremely special. Of course, sometimes the plays that look great are exactly that, but we'll get to that in a second. Today, we're going to take what we hope is a step forward by introducing one of several new Statcast™ metrics we'll roll out in 2017: Catch Probability. (See also: Hit Probability.) It's a simple number that can be applied to every tracked batted ball to the outfield, and it's on a scale of 0-100 percent, where a zero percent Catch Probability is "that ball is never, ever caught" and a 100 percent Catch Probability is "caught by everyone, always." Read the Rest: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/217802340/statcast-introduces-catch-probability-for-2017/ Statcast introduces Hit Probability for 2017 By Mike Petriello, MLB.com Columnist If the 2016 title-winning Cubs taught us anything, it's that untangling pitching skill from defensive talent is more difficult than ever. Did Chicago have a best-in-baseball 3.15 ERA because starters like Jake Arrieta, Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks were so talented and avoided hard contact? Or because a defense led by Jason Heyward, Addison Russell and Javier Baez was historically good and simply converted those balls into outs better than anyone? The answer, then and now, was likely "both." We know that defense functions as a unit that includes both pitcher and fielders, and we know that in order to put up the lowest Batting Average on Balls in Play in more than three decades, as the Cubs did with their .255 mark, both pitchers and fielders have to be doing something right. But how much of each? Today, let's take a step towards trying to answer that question, by introducing one of our new Statcast™ metrics for 2017: Hit Probability. (See also: Catch Probability.) While there's a lot of complicated math that goes into it, it attempts to answer a very simple question: Based on the exit velocity and launch angle of the batted ball, how likely was the ball to land for a hit? That's trying to get to the heart of what a pitcher and hitter control while attempting to take out the effects of defense and ballpark. Read the Rest: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/217705412/statcast-introduces-hit-probability-for-2017/

Anyone else just hear Wilner snap at some dude in the production booth? lmao I didn't catch it clearly because I'm multi-tasking but it sounded like someone suggested for him to talk about something and be snapped back with "Yeah, I just said that!" Probably forgot to mute his mic.

http://www.sloansportsconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/The%20value%20of%20flexibility%20in%20baseball%20roster%20construction.pdf

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How can you tell? Video was uploaded in 2017.

Going to assume this was already posted here, but in case it wasn't:

Post of the year candidate.

Ryan Howard had 19.0 career WAR in 2009 at the age of 29. He's played in all 7 Major League Baseball seasons since then (840 games), and his total career WAR now is 19.4.