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Originally Posted by GloryDayz
Again, I get it, I'm just not in the mood these days to listen or read about any thin silver linings in Royals baseball. Let his agent bring-up that shit. I want to focus on the the only stat that really matters, team wins and losses.
I think silver linings are what consistently allow this organization, and the Chiefs too, to dupe good people in cities like KC to be happy with losing teams. That's why I no longer care about nice guys, players showing up at shelters, if the team goes to church, if players are juicing and staying one step ahead of the technology to catch them. I don't care who's on the roster and if the kiss babies at public events at the mall.
I want a winner, a contender, and teams that other teams fear when they come to town. We're not far from it, but then again, we're always not far from it.
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No one except crotchety old timers think pitching wins provide any real or consistent measure of ability of any pitcher. The only reason broadcasters even include the wins "metric" in their initial overview of a pitcher is because it's TRADITIONAL. No other reason.
Let me put it this way. If James Shields pitches nine innings of one run two hit ball with no walks, and the Royals lose because their offense can't generate anything for one reason or another, Shields has nothing to do with that and. It's unreasonable to assume that a pitcher's base expectation is to throw a complete game shutout every start, because that's impossible. If a pitcher goes 0-16 with 1.50 ERA and averages 8 innings and 9 K's a start, clearly that means he's a bad pitcher, right? Dumbass.