Look at Ray Ray Run

Albert belle.

Yeah, its amazing that not many even remembers. That's a combination of todd not doing anything else good so it not being memorable, and the sox being so bad that our brains have pretended these years never happened.

Yup. I saw him just hit a homer and it was his 18th of the year. I thought, wow that's low for a powe guy in today's game. Then I looked up his stats with the sox because I thought he hit 38 one year but it was actually 40. And i didnt remember the guy hitting 40 Homer's 4 years ago because the past four years have been that bad. Amazing he hit 40 Homer's and had like a 760 ops.

Nope. This was my thought as well as an FYI.

I come across things pretty frequently that make me say "hmmm, how did I not know that?" Today's trivia is... Who was the last White Sox player to hit 40 Home runs in a season. Dont cheat.

He hasnt played baseball in like 16 months. Baseball is a game of timing. He may suck really bad but we wont have any idea until he gets stateside. Agree with you.

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Putting a ball in play for a hit is more valuable than walking - it's a small advantage but enough to give player A the edge. A walk cannot advance a runner two bases. A walk cannot drive in a run from 2nd or 3rd. A walk cannot generate an error leading to an extra base. We're talking 1 or 2 runs of added value but it matters. That small difference is why A is the answer. That article is not at all arguing that BA doesn't matter Jack. It's just stating that power can cancel out a lack of contact skills.

Good stuff. His AAA wRC is now over 130. He's spent his minor league career being about 130 or better.

Framing is still a pretty conflicted statistic for a multitude of reasons. Mainly because its reliant on someone else doing their job poorly and because umpires do talk and grade themselves and some bias against a good framer can be created. Regardless, there are "things" that show grandal being a very poor defender (I believe the Dodgers felt this way, ftr). Catcher metrics are difficult to gauge.

K-Rates normalize faster than anything else too. While it doesn't mean his previous rate doesn't matter, it does say this adjustment may have a real impact on a k-rate reduction going forward.

No one is signing a 31 year old catcher for 5 years 80 million. Theres a lot of conflicting catcher data that says grandal is a bad defender too.

As a reliever, a third pitch is really risky because if you dont have a feel for it you've just blown the game. You dont have innings to find the feel. For whatever reason the cutter tends to hurt relievers off speed offerings. It's why cutter first relievers dont really mix in off speed stuff nearly at the rate that other relievers do.

Because guys with elite cutters tend to hone in on that pitch after a while.

The Astros whiffed on two number 1 overall picks lol.

It's a makeup game from a monday night game yesterday. People probably have to work.

The paid one here is from over 1 year ago, and it's for software engineers - not analysts.

These jobs pay so much less compared to working the same job in the finance/business world. There's only 60 jobs in the world at the level you'd like to get to (GM or Pres of Baseball Ops), and turnover is so high when you get there, what do you do after?

If this is true, they've done a really poor job of promoting and recruiting.

The year before it was 87mph. He lost 3mph at his age 43 season. Maddux was living in the 92-93 range touching 95 in an era where everyone wasn't throwing 95. He had an above average are and elite movement.

Yeah and Gammons is preaching complete nonsense. Maddux was throwing 90mph at the end of his long career. At no point in his prime was he struggling to hit 90.

A lot more analysts? Data gathering and database building require more hours and man power. Analysts don't really do either of those when you get into billion dollar companies. I would guess a 4 man team could manage 99.9% of all analysis without being overworked and without being outgunned in the baseball world. Having 20 analysts all looking at similar information just makes it harder to move forward with any changes. Find 5 good ones, pay them a lot, and watch all the ideas those 5 find and can support. If you told me the Sox only had 2 modelers or data builders I'd say that's likely a problem.

Maddux absolutely could amp it up to the mid 90's. The maddux was a low velocity guy commentary is nonsense. Maddux could and did hit 94-95mph.

I mean, he used to throw hard. Hes just so talented and good that's hes the rare breed where performance isn't tied to velocity. I would argue he is just as much of a must watch as he was when he was throwing 95 and 96. Greinke also similar to Josh Hamilton in that he would have been a top pick as a SS as well as a pitcher

Maybe if I didnt put afternoon in the title like a dumbass