fathom

Eaton's gonna finish 2nd on team in homers

Royals clearly miss the veteran presence of Rios

Not a cheapie for Bryant

Royals tanking for a draft pick

QUOTE (Knackattack @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 06:56 PM) Brantly not looking good either.. Really shows why guys like Avi Garcia can hit so well in AAA and stink it up in the majors considering how well Olt and Brantly did this year Small sample size, but Bonifacio is hitting .462 in AAA

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 07:54 PM) Olt is ALL SORTS of screwed up. He will be in Japan in two years

Yep it's the same Olt. Was worth a shot, but he makes Sox prospects look like good fastball hitters. You should have seen him try to hit Chapman.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 05:13 AM) Find out how many times they did that against good pitching instead of s*** pitching. The N.L West has a lot of bottom feeding teams with bad pitching. The D-Backs are a mediocre to bad team. The cubs should punch them in the mouth. Arietta is good but his competition this years has been utter s***. Something I know you will agree with me on is that so many NL teams to 2-3 deep in their rotation and have a bunch of crap filling out the other starts. Reason Cards have been so good is they go 5 deep.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 04:04 AM) Just stop. f***ing stop. My god man. Guess Colorado has the best offense in the NL then. I'm confused, what other measure of how good of an offense is besides runs scored? Obviously there's the home/road factor, and prior to the injuries I thought the Giants had the best offense in the NL

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 03:48 AM) Lol what? Your biased is showing pretty pathetically I might say. The Dbacks are a 6 under team. They came into today leading NL in runs scored. To me, that makes them a good offense, especially with the wind howling out today.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 03:31 AM) Arrieta has been good but when is the last time he shut down a good offensive unit? The Dodgers, Giants, and D-Backs are not those teams. The last time he gave up runs was to the lowly White Sox. Dbacks led the NL in offense last I checked. He's also destroyed the Cards this year

Raise that trade stock Q!

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 01:46 AM) All of our HR numbers suck to be honest. Strongest at catcher spot compared to average at position?

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 02:36 AM) Ventura brings out both mental midgets of the pen. I'd use Duke in March. Petricka should be turned into a long reliever. Gives up far too many hits to be a set-up man

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 01:20 AM) FWIW, I don have a problem with the view that Arrieta has been better this year. The ERA difference is pretty big, and I'm not necessarily in the camp of "pitcher's have 0% control on balls in play". The case for Arrieta is strong. I've always used ERA a lot, but this year has just made me sour on it a bit because of Sale. His advanced metrics are the best of his career by far, but his ERA is looking like it's going to be the worst of his career so far. With a difference that stark it just feels like ERA is missing a big part of the story. I mean it doesn't make sense that Sale is giving up the weakest contact of his career yet he's giving up more hits. There's something else there. And when the same pattern exists with the other pitchers on the same staff (like with Quintana), that just further increases that doubt in my mind. With regards to the weak contact stuff, how about the fact that the reason his ERA is so high is because the Twins have destroyed him this year? In those games, it definitely wasn't weak contact. There's no doubt that a majority of his games, Sale just dominates.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 02:17 AM) 11 HR vs RHP, 0 vs LHP. overall, 832 OPS vs RHP and .600 vs LHP Also, with Melky having a .591 OPS vs LHP coming into the game, it's a recipe for a bad top of the lineup vs LHP (even Abreu has been awful vs LHP this year compared to RHP) Good news is Sox have all the lefty pitchers in the AL anyways

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 01:13 AM) ZERO chance he garners more votes than Harper. "he" = anyone in the NL I'd love to see the Nats finish off on a 25-5 or so run here

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 02:15 AM) How bad is Eaton against LHP? 11 HR vs RHP, 0 vs LHP. overall, 832 OPS vs RHP and .600 vs LHP

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 01:14 AM) Starting with your jealous, petty bullshut already? Try being an adult for once. Oh come on, that was a bad call right off the bat. With that said, ND is completely outclassing Texas it appears. I'm watching FSU/Texas St. now...what can you tell me about this new FSU QB?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 01:09 AM) Yes, their rotation is garbage 3-5. Bullpen is ok. Bunch of kids (though very talented) on offense. Arrieta has put the team on his back and should be the favorite in the play-in game. Hard to give a pitcher MVP votes on a team that should have two offensive players in the top 10 for MVP as well

QUOTE (harkness @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 02:06 AM) eaton not so great against Left handers... Yep, huge splits

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 02:04 AM) Sequencing is the order you give up hits. Let's say two pitchers give up a walk, a single, and a homer in an inning. If Pitcher A gives up the homer first, then the other two, he ends up giving up only one run. If Pitcher B gives up the walk and single first and then the home run, he gives up three runs. ERA says Pitcher B was three times worse than Pitcher A. FIP says they were the same, because in a way they essentially did the same thing. Thanks for clarifying

QUOTE (zenryan @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 01:58 AM) hopefully he's fired after this season and Miami can make a run at him Nice to see Corn Elder erupt. Saw him in an AAU hoops tourney a few years ago and loved his attitude.

Saw the video of Alexei's homer. Really nice swing by him.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Sep 6, 2015 -> 12:04 AM) Agree to disagree then. There's way too much noise in the ERA metric for me to trust it too much (BABIP luck, defense, sequencing), this year has convinced me of that. Sale has been far more dominant this year than last year IMO. What's sequencing in regards to? FWIW, I'm a much bigger believer in WAR, etc for hitters than I am FIP for pitchers.