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Ned Yost makes me happier than a nun in a cucumber field.
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07-14-2013, 09:47 AM | #3 |
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37-47 at the break last year.
43-48 as of today. They didn't win their 43rd game last year until August 1st. Progress I reckon.... Posted via Mobile Device |
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07-14-2013, 09:52 AM | #4 |
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The way we've been hitting lately, we may not win our 44th until August 1st.
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07-14-2013, 09:58 AM | #5 |
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Jeremy Guthrie has been the second worst starting pitcher in baseball this year.
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07-14-2013, 09:59 AM | #6 |
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07-14-2013, 09:59 AM | #7 |
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5.70 xFIP -0.5 WAR
Luck and run support doesn't equal good.
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07-14-2013, 10:00 AM | #8 |
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Overall, really nice OP and great idea for a thread.
Guthrie and Davis deserve some rethinking, in my view. The former gives up the gopher ball far, far, far too often, and Royals fans are going to hate his contract when the smoke clears. Regarding the latter, he's on an historically bad pace, and thus you misspelled his name: Davies. |
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07-14-2013, 10:00 AM | #9 |
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Thank you for the write up. Looks like you are up on people more than I am.
Hosmer C Moose F Billy C Dyson D Cain D Lough B Gordon B+ Salvy B Shields B Santana B Guthrie B Davis F Herarra F Elliot Johnson D Gio D Escobar D Kotterous C Ned Yost D Dayton Moore D Slugger D Toby Cook C Denny Matthews B Rex Hudler C Steve Phisoic C Ryan Leveber A Jeff Blauser A
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Demonpenz: You have to give Slugrrr an "A" for his love of lap dances. And Toby Cook (Royals PR) gets an F for two things: One, letting Fred Bird, the Cardinals mascot, run around OUR STADIUM during the Cardinals series. and two, ESPECIALLY for "Salute The A's" weekend. He should be shot for that promotion alone.
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I didn't see a hole cut in his crotch so he could get some goop on him.
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xFIP adds in the league average HR/FB ratio to better normalize the measurement. It works extremely well. If a pitcher has an xFIP higher than their ERA they are getting lucky. Lower and they are unlucky. Further explanation: Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) measures what a player’s ERA should have looked like over a given time period, assuming that performance on balls in play and timing were league average. Back in the early 2000s, research by Voros McCracken revealed that the amount of balls that fall in for hits against pitchers do not correlate well across seasons. In other words, pitchers have little control over balls in play. McCracken outlined a better way to assess a pitcher’s talent level by looking at results a pitcher can control: strikeouts, walks, hit by pitches, and homeruns. A walk is not as harmful as a homerun and a strikeout has less impact than both. FIP accounts for these kinds of differences, presenting the results on the same scale as ERA. It has been shown to be more effective than ERA in terms of predicting future performance and has become a mainstay in sabermetric analysis.
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