Kalapse
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11 minutes ago, Texsox said:
People complain how bad Leury's contact is. It should be the minimum. I'm complaining about any player who signs a worst deal.
It's impossible to keep up with your positions considering you're borderline anti-free agency. (possibly not even borderline)
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4 minutes ago, Texsox said:
Cheap ass owner underpaying players so they can make huge profits. No way he should have signed for less than Leury money. I was hoping with the new CBA we'd see fans continuing to demand higher salaries for players. He doesn't have many seasons left, this should have been a better payday.
what anti-worker point are you trying to make here, exactly? You do this all the time. Yes, Tex, we all agree if this past season taught us 1 thing it's that the owners deserve to pocket more money, it certainly shouldn't go to the people doing the actual work or anything. You're all over the damn place but you tend to come back to the same old chestnuts.
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On 12/31/2022 at 7:38 PM, southsider2k5 said:
Call about LeBron. Get nuts.
Lebron can’t be legally traded until the offseason.
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I mean, this exact thing happened during Euro 2020.
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17 hours ago, bmags said:
Hell yeah! I don’t know if you saw this but I applied the recent fangraphs article showing early, highly correlative data between hard hit rate and wRC+ over long term and romy came out sparkling
Your research is actually why I dug a little deeper into Romy's baseball savant numbers because there seems to be some pretty loud tools with Romy that no one really talks about. He had 1 bolt (running 30 ft/sec) last year, this is meaningful, kind of like max exit velocity it shows that he's capable of high end speed. We need a lot more data but I didn't realize he was THAT fast.
Baseball savant is fun, like there's a free agent catcher who's page looks like this:
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1 hour ago, bmags said:
Another thing is just we focus so much on in game tactics from our managers, but your tactics will always be at a disadvantage when the players aren’t properly prepared.
This coaching will help make sure when a pinch hitter comes in they aren’t just flailing wildly.
Other pitchers and hitters are too good now. These tools are gonna help them execute against crazy 98 mph pitches that seem like they shoot up and into your hands.
I also just think Romy is going to be an above average hitter today.
I'm also bullish on Romy, I've defended him in the past and I'll continue to be an advocate because his profile is exciting.
Small sample but take this from baseball savant: 2022, minimum 100 PA, add a few interesting columns and sort by hard hit%.
Romy's 2022 profile was extremely similar to 2022 Ronald Acuna who had a .366 xwOBA.
Please for the love of god lets get that launch angle up. That's seriously what so many dudes of this team need, a focus on pulling the ball in the air with authority. If Romy can get that Avg LA into the double digits he's going to do a lot of damage.
His all around speed, in limited sample, is very similar to Jose Ramirez and Trevor Story as well. He showed just as much speed last year as Christian Pache and Vidal Brujan.
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Really liked this. Maybe the most maddening thing about the '22 team was the uncompetitive ABs due to weak contact early in the count, they were up there protecting in 0 and 1 strike counts and it led to a fuckload of weak groundballs.
Quote“The approach that you would take of staying in the middle of the field is going to help you control the strike zone more,” Castro said. “You’re not going to be swinging at a borderline pitch, strike down and away, in a 1-0 count, for example. It’s going to happen, but we’re going to minimize that. Because we don’t want the weak out, the weak contact when we’re ahead in the count. That’s one thing that we need to get better at.”
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wowza, he may see a power boost playing half his games at the rate.
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it's fine. he's fine, the guarantee is fine. it's just fine.
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15 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:
These $50M payrolls I feel are worse for the sport.
yep, steve cohen spending like a mad man should put additional pressure on the assholes who own the teams to actually spend money, not the other way around. more teams spending like they're actually trying to win seems like it would be better for the sport.
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i really what moncado
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Just now, bmags said:
lotta players picked this year. I think teams finally realized the penalty is...not very exorbitant.
seemed to me like there was just a gentleman's agreement not to select anyone (which the union wouldn't be happy about) considering it cost $50k and you get half the money back if the player is returned. (it's now $100k/$50k under the new CBA)
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Have higher standards than this. 82 OPS+ over the last 5 seasons and that includes last year's little hot streak. He had a fucking .309 OBP WITH THE WHITE SOX last year.
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Elvis Andrus is not good, please remember this.
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18 hours ago, 2Deep said:
Damn
Reading posts here and Twitter you would think Reynolds is the next coming of Mike trout.
Yes, we need to give up Vaughn, gio, and Montgomery...
Fucking dumbasses .......any and all of you who believe that
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I think this is my least favorite type of post, the hyperbole swing in the opposite direction is just so worthless. It makes you sound fucking stupid.
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looking into wanking motion reacts as we speak
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Just now, Quin said:
You are unfortunately correct.
I fucking hate Brett Myers
On 7/30/2010 at 10:52 AM, Kalapse said:BNightengale
#mlb #white sox Sox GM Kenny Williams, the king of the trade deadline, is quietly exploring possibility of acquring Brett Myers from Astros 1 minute ago via web
Man, it would really suck having such a piece of s*** on the ballclub. Can we please avoid players that I'm forced to actively root against?
On 7/30/2010 at 11:00 AM, Kalapse said:QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 30, 2010 -> 10:56 AM)If Myers is good, nobody will say anything.I'll be honest: I would not be able to root for him, I just can't. He's scum.
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24 minutes ago, Quin said:
I had to look up who we traded Devenski for and boy did that make me want to vomit.
just off the top of my head it was myers, wasn't it?
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I think I'm 100% behind Kevin Long
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6 minutes ago, Quin said:
Kelenic certainly is a left-handed outfielder.
he looked especially bad against Houston, shockingly he went 2 for 17 in the series with 7 strikeouts.
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Just so people know: Elvis Andrus is going into his age 34 season and will more than likely suck s%*# next year. he played way over his head for the sox (big time dead cat bounce energy) and even while far exceeding any expectations his line with chicago was only .271/.309/.464/.773 (puffed up ISO by like 80 points, he's good for about .120 not .200). He has an 82 OPS+ over his last 2300 plate appearances, he's not good anymore.
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12 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:
BTW I don't think that the $200M number is correct. I think it's much lower than that.
you just keep posting, huh?
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8 minutes ago, The Kids Can Play said:
Grandal used to have elite plate discipline. I don't think Grandal getting his legs back is the problem or will improve his hitting. He has lost his good batting eye at the plate. He isn't seeing the pitches as well as he used to, in terms of making contact or getting walks. He has way more swings missing the ball, especially swinging at more pitches outside the zone.
The fact is he is 33 years old and will be 35 at the start of next season. Every player has a different falling off point, but at 35 yrs old, his better days are behind him.
Grandal is 91st percentile in BB% and 92nd percentile in chase rate. His K rate this year is basically the same as it was last year too. He still has elite plate discipline, though not super-elite like last year, it's the rest of his game that's god awful. Yas should be proud, 1st percentile in sprint speed and pop time to 2nd.
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