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Deer Sox offices, Singles bad homers Good

Even the 2015 Royals were 11th in MLB in SLG. 2022 Sox are 18th.

The worst thing about this is it just fuels JR's arguments against giving start players contracts longer than 3 years, completely ignoring that it's much more about what type of player you're offering those years to.

Singles help very little in generating runs. Extra base hits help much, much more. That may seem obvious, but here's data to show how extreme this difference is. I ran two correlations on 2022 to date team stats. One between runs scored and singles hit. One between runs scored and extra base hits. A correlation is a number between -1 and 1. 1 is a pefrect correlation. There is a 100% direct impact of one stat on the other -1 is an inverse correlation. There is a 100% opposite impact of one stat on the other. 0 is no correlation. There is no impact of one stat on the other. The correlation between singles and runs is .185. This means there is very little correlation between hitting singles and scoring runs. The correlation between extra base hits and runs is .860. This means there is an extremely high correlation between extra base hits and scoring runs. This literally took me 5 minutes to do. I don't understand why a $1B+ franchise doesn't have someone pulling data like this and using it to make decisions about players and coaches.

I had predicted at least 5 posts by caulfield before someone replied. I guess it was under.

Wait, is Leury running the bases for Texas?

I was just wondering the same thing. That's hard to do.

I thought about that, but then I figured that holding it back until tomorrow would be bad karma and would surely anger the game thread gods. I do have another good one though if the Sox manage to win this one.

Robert at DH, Pollock in CF, Vaughn in RF but otherwise this is finally the full lineup.

I may run out of clever game thread titles before we get to 19 in a row.

No, there's nobody on the roster I'd boot off for either of these two guys.

The problem at this point is that Sheets is the only position player who can realistically be sent down, and with Grandal and Moncada not being reliable you actually need Sheets' bat in the lineup. if you're not willing to DFA Engel, there's really no room for a waiver claim.

I generally don't pick which games I go to because of promotions, but a "first 15,000 fans get to punch TLR" would get me there for sure.

If I calculated correctly, he hit 5 years on 7/30.

Yeah, I get Contreras and Rodon not getting moved because those guys can get a QO, but there's no way Joc gets a QO so you'd think the Giants would just take whatever the best offer was.

7:05 PM CT, NBCSC Johnny Cueto (R) 4-4, 2.86 vs Cole Ragans (L) 0-0, ---

We went there once. Neat town. Ate at a place called Quintessential Dining and Nightlife, which I thought was a neat name.

Yoan was a 4 WAR guy last year. Career best OBP and K rate. Only thing lacking was the ISO. Way too early to know if this year is just suffering through some physical problems or if there are more serious issues.

https://www.wndu.com/2022/08/03/rep-jackie-walorski-dies-elkhart-county-crash/ My grandmother on my dad's side is from Elkhart county. I'm pretty sure I've been through that intersection before.

No, but if he can get through 5 that will be nice.

He went full gas when he needed to.

The main line of storms is farther west. This cell literally just popped up on the radar. Not sure it could have been predicted.