Look at Ray Ray Run

There is nothing about WAR that is subjective. Its difficult to give a slash line because amazingly enough you get value and lose it for more than just offense because baseball isn't just offense. Leury Garcia plays a premium defensive position and has graded out above average there. He also is a + base runner. Abreu is a bad defender and base runner who is only about 10% better than Leury with the bat this year despite playing a position that asks for premium offensive production. That's why leury is a more valuable player. It's not that complicated. A replacement level SS (assuming league average defense and baserunning) slash line would look something like Brandon Crawford this year: 234/304/376

I mean, for a 20ish year period they had like the 5th most wins in baseball. They had some bad luck a couple times - winning a lot of games and missing out. Their owner cost them one chance at a WS by leading a strike. They were certainly competitive and pretty good. Every august and september It felt like the games mattered - even if they'd choke or etc. That's all you can ask as a fan really. They were competitive for 2 decades.

Cool story but you tried to say Quintana and Marco were the same when Quintana had a top 10 WAR over a 4 year period and Marco is no where near that level of production .

It might have something to do with the fact that Quintana had a 4 year stretch without a WAR under 4 while Marco has never had a 4+ WAR season in his career but besides that they're like totally the same.

10 minute interview. Points to the one negative/mistake part of it. Reminds me of my wife.

Great and he was hitting 230 about 3 weeks ago and has been up and down. He looks like he might be a decent little utility infielder which is already what yolmer is. Giving him a shot at what? If hes a utility infielder they can use him next year in that roll after he finishes his level. Here's what I promise. No matter how incompetent the Chicago white sox are, they know more about danny mendick and his development than you. Mendick isn't being exploited for financial reasons like Robert. Calling an organization incompetent for not calling up a 25 utility prospect with a 105 wRC+ at AAA is a bit of a reach.

Because they want Mendick to continue development and get everyday at bats at AAA? What's incompetent is accelerating anyone's planned path because of injuries to a bad big league team. The big league team outcome shouldn't dictate how any prospects development plan goes.

I get it to a point, but Covey has been light and day better than them at AAA. I think you're just asking to replace garbage with trash. I'm not against it, but when you throw Arnie Munoz's out there you get Arnie Munoz results.

Eh, 3/5 of the days the starter is someone you want to watch and is interesting. That's better than most of the year so far.

This/that was literally Steve's point. It literally reaffirms what he said. You spend 99% of your day ripping everything white sox online and the other 1% defending theo and the cubs. If you like the cubs and the sox make you so angry and miserable why not just be a fan of them? I dont understand.

I'm sorry, closers get a 40% bump in their value for leverage. 40% doesn't make up for the 200%+ fewer innings pitched by closers than starters.

Save percentage has nothing to do with WAR. A save adds zero WAR to a relievers total.

An IP is an IP to WAR. doesnt matter when it happened or the situation. A starter will always have 2 or 3 times the chances to earn value than a reliever. It's really that simple.

The replacement level barometer is absurdly low. It's better than Hollinger absurdly low standard for PER, but 0 is not meant to be an actual big league talent and it's likely worse than a lot of AAA talent.

WAR is cumulative. Relievers will always be slightly under valued because of the inning discrepancy and because leverage isnt worked in but teams value it. 1.7 WAR is high enough for a reliever this time of year. It's hard to impact a game similarly to a starter or position player when you only impact 80 innings a year even if they're high leverage.

Will have to wait and see? Guy came out next AB and rocketed a double and then a homer the AB afterward. Busted his ass around the bases both times. We already saw how he responded to it.

Buxton has a cannon if he's sitting inside a cardboard box laying on his back. He doesn't need a perfect set up. No one challenges Buxton but for maybe Bux himself in that situation.

Moncada responded great to this. Well done by Ricky. You need to read your players and know your guys.

Sure and he can learn that on a big league mound during a rebuild year. Nice lesson to learn that stuff won't save you always against big leaguers. Young players struggle. Let him do it at this level and figure it out at this level. Not complex stuff.

This is a problem for me with the Sox. This is undeniable. The Sox don't value defense highly enough as an organization. The best was Jay acting pissed off after Engel swiped him. Get out of his way bozo. It's not like Jay is a young player. Its unacceptable. If I can get there as a CF'er get the fuck out of my way.

Get the fuck out of the centerfielders way. Jesus christ I'm so tired of dumb ass left and right fielders not yielding.

Kanye is talented but it's been downhill since CDO for me. From someone on that album I'd go Man on the Moon (although not sure it counts) for past 10 years in my top 5-7 albums ahead of that. Hope Cudi recovers from his mental stuff. He's so talented. The story telling on DAMN is great but I think Forest Hills has slight edge for me. Kind of nostalgic like this album for me. Ok, game time.

This jumps around everywhere. Kind of an early 90's vibe to it though. Nostalgic a bit too as it goes on. We go high a great one for me. Some hit a little some are soft for sure. The wife stuff, as a married man, was a bit too newlywed for me haha. I lost it there. The Gucci track hits good if that's you're style.

I actually had no idea, and missed the drop on spotify this morning because I had to hit the office at 5:30 this morning and it wasn't out yet but I checked back after lunch and boom. See how it holds. Every few years something drops to remind me rap hasn't died. Kamikaze was fine but not where he was.

I'd be all with you guys but peak numbers are no where near where they were. This is baseball driven. Microdosing likely takes place, and there are absolutely still cheaters (Hi Jake!), but this boom is lead by baseball this time.