Brownie19
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More importantly, castoff Cervelli is better than Martin.
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John Gibbons Thread (+ Venting)
Brownie19 replied to Daniel Labude's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Step away from the hot tub time machine man - nothing wrong with Tulo at leadoff. An "RBI guy" haha. -
I also find it ironic that Cervelli is better than Russell Martin now....Pittsburgh has really become the place where you go to revive your career (or breakout).
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Brantley is awesome - although I'm surprised to see his defense is below average.
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Great defense too...
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Good lord. You said you don't want him leading off.....my point is the "lead off" position is poorly named as the teams' first batter is only guaranteed to "lead off" one inning a game, which is no big deal. People should view the 1st hitter in the lineup as one of your better hitters who you want getting more at bats than you're s***** hitters (ie, Revere). You shouldn't be concerned (to the point you say you don't want him there) with Tulo hitting 1st in the Jays lineup. That's the point. I'm done.
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It certainly appears the injuries are affecting his play; however, I don't think anyone should have expected he was more going to post a wRC+ much higher than 110
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That seems like a perfectly logical reason to believe he'd fail as the GM...
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I sure did. You said you don't like him leading off. My point is he's only guaranteed to be the first batter up in an inning once all game. I don't see that as a major concern, seeing as he'll end up leading off an inning hitting 3rd, 4th or 5th somewhat regularly during the course of a season. You then you talked about the "having your best hitter leading off" theory, claiming that's dumb because he isn't the teams best hitter. I explained you have that theory wrong.
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You guys seem to have a lot of friends on meds. That's scary.
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No I don't, because I doubt many MLB writers (who vote) would even know that stat, or pay any attention to it.
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You don't like him leading off once a game? That theory isn't "having your best hitter leading off" - it's having your best hitters at the top of the lineup so they get the most at bats. Career .370 OBP with average speed makes him a good candidate....especially since the JD/Bats/E5 alignment is obviously comfortable on those roles.
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I heard that. He was also saying he doesn't believe in 99.9% of sabrmetric stats, which made me giggle. It is amazing to see that Donaldson has provided more value on the base paths this year than Trout. I know they cut down on Trout's SB attempts to help limit injuries, but I figured he'd still be one of the most valuable base runners in baseball. Stats say otherwise.
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The benefit of moving E5 and opening up the DH role isn't to free up 600 at bats for Colabello - it's to allow Jose, Tulo, Martin, etc. the opportunity to DH from time to time - hopefully to keep them fresh and healthy.
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The steroid era is over (errr at least we think/hope it is) - players are once again declining at age 32...
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Who on earth started ROFL? Like honestly, has anyone actually rolled around on the floor laughing? and if you did - what made you think we need an acronym for this extremely rare occasion? dumn.
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What is wrong with Tinnish?
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Predict Gregg Zaun's Drew Hutchison Sunday Roast
Brownie19 replied to Dr. Dinger's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Did anyone hear Buck and Tabby talking about the AL ROY candidates? They came up with Osuna, Travis and Burns....Correra guys. Jesus you are awful at your jobs -
Isn't that a poor assumption? I still pitch and I know I go through stretches where I feel less comfortable and I'm less effective out of the stretch. There are obviously people with poor mental makeup who also tighten up in difficult situations. Hutchison has posted significantly worse FIP, xFIP, HR/9, WHIP, K/9 and BB/9 with runners on base throughout this career.
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That's pretty awesome for Mark to be so open and honest....also awesome to hear the org looks after him
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You guys remember in Spring Training when there was discussion on whether or not Daric Barton and/or spring training hero Caleb Gindl should make the team? Both have been terrible in AAA.
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Sorry - I may have combined a couple of thoughts there. I get there are stabilization rates and that at some point we may establish a large skill-based difference between his ERA and his xFIP abilities. I'm more interested in the boards thoughts on my comment about short term bad luck. Let's say we've concluded he's had bad luck. What's to say that bad luck won't continue? We're in the middle of a pennant race. At some point do you say it's too risky to continue running him out there in hopes that this stretch of bad luck is going to end? I would assume there's no rhyme or reason as to when short term bad/good luck starts or ends.
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Yeah I get that, but it's still hard to ignore the results. Has anyone done studies on the duration of short term and long term "luck". Wouldn't it be perfectly reasonable to admit Hutch has had bad luck all year, particularly on the road, but to say we don't know how long that bad luck will continue and we can't afford to find out because there's a chance it could continue through to the end of the year? Some continually say Hutch has had bad luck, yet you could argue he's never had "good luck" in his MLB career (spanning 375 innings). He's never had an ERA under his FIP or xFIP and over the past 2 years it hasn't even been close. At some point, we might conclude it's not bad luck right?
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Doesn't FIP and xFIP take into account park factors?
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Why can't Heinsy be called up instead of Zeke? Zeke is so tuuurrrrible.
