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I would say conventional statistics vastly overrated Michael Bourn and sabermetrics showed exactly how bad of a deal he was as a free agent. Aging veteran who wasn't a league average offensive player and whose value was predicated solely on his legs. Unfortunately, he had a high batting average and was fast, the former of which is especially overrated

I'd hate for an Abreu move to DH to push Viciedo off the team if we decide we can't tolerate his outfield D

In his defense, he is walking a bunch

Pretty sure he's safe here

QUOTE (JohnCangelosi @ May 20, 2014 -> 10:25 PM) Exactly. And the announcers completely missed it. The ball was right down the middle of the plate. Almost couldn't be more center cut. It was obviously not the pitch Flowers thought it was. Knowing Belisario, I'm guessing Ronald is the one who forgot which sign he had

90% chance that passed ball was Belisario's fault

Flowers has to be one of the first full-time players to go 2 for 4 on May 20th and have his BABIP go down

When tenure at the HS level has problems, which it does not always have, it is because too often tenure is given out as if it is automatic so long as you work a given amount of years. If you give a sub-par educator tenure, they probably will get worse after they get it. They certainly won't get any better. The other issue can be feckless administrators who are afraid to go after a tenured teacher who isn't doing their job. Tenure doesn't protect you from not doing your job. To add to the things Tex mentioned, I've lived in a school district that cut corners everywhere it could. Without tenure, every single decent educator would have been fired for entry-level replacements and I have absolutely no doubt about that. The only thing that could have saved them would have been small town politics, and it isn't like that's a good thing. Public education is not a free market for a reason - free markets have more than educational quality in mind and they certainly don't operate with the intent to deliver a great education to as many people as possible without regard to those people's income. Unfortunately in Illinois, the situation I described above happened in a different way. Local school districts trying to save money were able to give educators incentives to retire early, knowing the state foots the bill for their pensions. That's a situation where it made no sense that local districts would be spending someone else's money.

ALEXEIII!!!!!!!1!1!1!!!!ONE!!!!!

Indiana totally folded down the stretch, even if LBJ punched George Hill in the face earlier

LMAO at that mega-flop by LBJ

"The media" kissed Palin's ass for a much longer time than she deserved. I'm sure they've given her some unfair criticism, but nothing is more absurd than this brain damage BS

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2014 -> 04:50 PM) We didn't draft Scottie. He was a draft day deal for olden polynice. The main question is whether it was our drafting accumen or trading accumen that made that deal a winner

My top would look something like this, I think: 1. Micah Johnson 2. Courtney Hawkins 3. Matt Davidson 4. Tim Anderson 5. Tyler Danish 6. Trayce Thompson 7. Chris Beck 8. Rangel Ravelo 9. Trey Michalczewski 10. Carlos Sanchez

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 20, 2014 -> 09:01 AM) The Bulls traded for Scottie Pippen. The Bulls would be trading for Carmelo Anthony or Kevin Love. #lifefacts We drafted Scottie. The weirdness that is the NBA draft makes every trade of picks on draft day into a trade of players

I've never seen professional journalists act like such big babies. Put on a f***ing coat on your way into the stadium and shut the f*** up. New Orleans is a s***hole anyway

Yeah, I think the obvious question is not so much whether he can sustain statistics exactly like these over the long haul, but rather which ones will change. The saber way tends to assume that K/BB stays the same, in which case the outlook is bleak for Abreu. However, we have good reason to be skeptical of the stability of the K/BB rates of a player with such unique circumstances, in such little time, and partially influenced by injury.

Your diet is going to explain 75% of your results and pretty much 100% of your weight loss results. Exercise, though, is going to affect the way the weight is lost - even the most basic of exercises will help you preserve muscle mass and cause you to lose more "bad" weight than otherwise

We're still working with too small of sample sizes. Abreu essentially jumped AA and AAA right into the majors. That K rate and BB rate are going to do some fluctuation. For a while, it looked like it was going to be 8-9 BB% and 19 K%. He's going to probably look both worse and better before things start to normalize and it will be a perfectly valid expectation that those peripherals improve next season whereas they typically stay pretty static.

A lot of physical talent, not much production. I wouldn't pay much and I'd have to think he would need MiLB time. caulfield, I didn't look at said scouting reports you're talking about, but Spanish naming conventions are First Name Paternal Last Maternal Last. So Dayan Viciedo is actually Dayan Viciedo Perez. It might be that Arredondo is his maternal last name

Yeah, LA is still reeling from all the money blown on that Puig character

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 19, 2014 -> 10:49 PM) Sale said the White Sox have to do something else to rid themselves of this rash of injuries. If they continue to occur the two-time All-Star might be open to hiring a witch doctor or sacrificing a live chicken, anything to rid the White Sox of this epidemic. [RELATED - White Sox Chris Sale sore from start but elbow is fine] “We have to disinfect the clubhouse,” said Sale, who is nearing a return. “We’re getting bit by the bug. Something’s going on. But you look around baseball and we’re doing a little better than most. You look around baseball — there’s freakish things happening around baseball for some reason, with pitchers and guys on field with obliques. Be thankful it’s not more.” Dan Hayes, www.csnchicago.com Ozzie's into Santeria, might have to bring him back

Also, I believe Love and Derrick are friends - Rose would still be a draw for Love. Noah, too, for just about everyone I'd imagine

Bulls haven't signed top tier FAs in anyone's lifetime because they always draft them. MJ and Scottie? No top tier FAs to sign when they're on your team. Rose and Noah? Again, they're on your team. There was a small window where we could have done it and we turned it into a nice little core for several years through the draft instead.

He acts like that's something new. Yeah, they are going to keep taking a look at it to make sure it's okay. Yeah, when he arrives in Chicago he's going to see the doctors again. Yeah, when the only way to heal the injury is to keep you off your foot, he's going to wear a walking boot.