chitownsportsfan

Sounds like Religion.

If you can't measure something then why would you care about it? How would you even know it when you see it?

numerous studies have shown clutch doesn't exist. it's a small sample bias. But FWIW (and it's not much) here's Jose's: Go figure: it almost perfectly aligns with his career OPS. Those late and close numbers tho ;-)

clutch is REAL GUYZ. I'm back in a 2004 sabermetrics debate I think.

10% of the OF is covered by Nick and Eloy. The other 90% is gonna be up to Robert!

Neither plan is any good. Puig is a 1.5 WAR true talent with a bad attitude and a propensity of pissing off his team mates. It was fine when he was producing 4-5 WAR seasons. Now he's producing 1-2 WAR seasons. Pass. Easy pass. Leury plan has a fatal flaw -- lack of a suitable utility guy. Yolmer is not getting offered arb (although it would be very Sox like to pay him 6 million next year) and Sox need a primary backup at SS/2B. That guy should be Leury. Find a real RF that can give an 800 OPS or higher. Castellanos might fit the bill.

it's nice having a superstar position player again.

cease has a long way to go until he's a MLB pitcher.

nasty, can't hit that.

Cease needs to calm the fuck down.

Yolmer is a great guy that can't hit a lick. Luckily for him he's already made a decent chunk of change and should be able to catch on somewhere next year.

Yea but this year he's only -2.2 runs on the bases :-). I have look at his fangraphs page so fucking much this season it's now coming up right away when I start typing "omar" into chrome. Yikes.

JD Martinez is actually the "premier hitter" that every opposing color guy wants to paint Abreu as. He is as good as it gets bat wise and the Sox should have made an attempt to acquire him.

wRC+ wouldn't be adjusted as it's purely an offensive metric: the fWAR would be about 2 for an 800 OPS DH. Maybe 1.5. I'm really not going to lament trading Narvaez. He's having a career year with the bat and is still only going to finish with around 2 fWAR, if that. The real issue, and this has been an issue for about a decade, is that the Sox simply cannot find and produce league average DHs. It's mind boggling. Even when they attempt to address it via FA it fails miserably.

Madrigal hitting in AA and AAA has been such a pleasant development.

Yea it's incredible how he got through his entire career in pro ball and never learned how to catch the baseball. Of course Abreu has the same issue but at least he's not a catcher.

It's hard to fathom how he plays catcher and is still dinged -.8.3 runs from Fangraphs. Actually no, it's not hard to fathom, we all watched him. He catches the ball like he's sitting on a barge going down a river. Ditching him for McCann (even though McCann was brought in as the backup to Castillo) was a good move and worked out great. Kudos to Hahn most of his trades are pretty good. Of course FA has been a nightmare we all are just waiting to see at this point if he can figure it out.

Figured something like this when I read that: and incredibly that's only like the 30th most hard hit ball in MLB this year.

he was a great starter in his prime. helluva guy to have, always loved having him and like noah he was a guy the other team loved to hate and would often times over react to and get off their game.

wow.

MY GOD. Wow. *CRACK*. It's nice having a superstar. Stay healthy Yoyo! I want to see him get to 30 HR this year.

If you want to tack on 15 points of average go ahead, here's the results of one xBABIP calculator I just ran. Another trope that needs to stop is how "horribly unlucky" he's been. I don't know enough about how teams are scouting him to have an opinion on if shifting is hurting him but I can't think it's helping. He's hitting less balls up the middle in general and those usually have higher BABIPS. Furthermore, ZIPS surely has some of system in place for normalizing BABIP, and guess what ZIPS sees rest of the way? A 275 batting average.

I've been saying this all year. He's always been vulnerable to junk away. Now that he's gearing up to pull the pull more often he's especially vulnerable to it. More Ks and more defenders that can position themselves expecting a pulled ball. He's hitting the ball hard but he's not hitting it nearly in the right spots or enough. He is a guy that relies on a high average, not high OBP, to drive his value outside home runs and that part of his game is gone like sands through the hourglass. Father time ya know?

And they all report to Senior VP of JR Operations:

And to think I took you off ignore this year.