Balta1701

On paper I still liked the concept...but I wasn't knowledgeable enough about him to understand he would be an awful fit with our catchers and perhaps pitching coach. They aren't able to use his best weapon, the offspeed stuff, if anyone gets on base, because the catchers can't block it, so he's throwing more fastballs and players expect them. I didin't see that coming at all, but then again I'm not paid for this.

I actually disagree with that, I think a lot of the reason they lose so many one run games is that LaRussa doesn't put guys in a very good position to succeed, particularly with the bullpen. There's lots of times I prefer "station to station baseball". I can't remember the last time I was saying "Someone should be stealing right now", it's been months. This was just such an obvious spot though...

You're probably right, but man that was the spot for one. No reason Hamilton is on the roster if he's not running there.

Go on this pitch if you think you have him.

If Sheets doesn't get the run in, then you run. Run here, so that it scores if Leury makes contact.

I think it's extremely important to get the 2 seed, and particularly with Anderson, I have zero problem with him sitting every other day right now and consider that clearly a higher priority.

Frankly, I'm ok with Toronto playing good baseball against the White Sox in the postseason. Because that means the White Sox made the ALCS, and the White Sox would even have home field advantage. So, bring it on.

Yes. Just for comparison - Tommy LaStella was coming off 2 solid average (to slightly above average) seasons, better than Cesar this year and he got $6.25 million/year over 3 years (with a bigger signing bonus), while Kike Hernandez who just led off for the Red Sox against us last weekend got $7 million a year/2 years. Next year, you've got Semien, Escobar, Chris Taylor (Dodgers), Brad Miller (Phillies utility guy), Leury, Baez, Donovan Solano (Giants), and then crazy ideas that someone like the Dodgers might do of signing a Corey Seager and a Trea Turner and moving Seager permanently to 2b. If Cesar is this bad the rest of the year, I just don't see him getting $6 million unless the CBA dramatically affects it. He only got $5 million this year, and he's really dragging himself down now. There are guys that I would rather spend more money on than Cesar at this dollar amount.

IMO - the number of other options there are available to fill that spot and the fact that his performance is this far down since he came to us suggests that his option would be an overpay, and if you really wanted him back, you decline the option and try to bring him back for several million less while also talking to Escobar about a deal and maybe even seeing if you can come up with the money for Semien. At the very least, if you can save $2 million on him, that's money you could put towards a solid utility guy or a backup catcher.

Bah, honestly, that whole series in Houston was just a whoopin. Cease got shelled, Lynn got beaten around, Keuchel got beaten around, and the offense scored 8 runs in 4 games. Rodon was really good, you will probably find some wondering in that game about why Crochet was the option in the 9th inning- he took the loss, but there were 2 lefties up early that inning (Brantley, Alvarez) and they were the ones who beat him so?

No I did not. I said they are "are selectively not reporting data to the CDC". The CDC says "Texas does not report demographic-specific dose number information to CDC."

Point 1, to specifically answer your question: "We also calculate the percent of the total population that has received a COVID-19 vaccine for 44 states that report racial/ethnic data" - Children count as part of the total population. Point 2, you need to stop and do math. You literally just quoted that 75% of the adult population have received 1 dose. Read that again. Now here are the numbers you quoted on the previous page: 68% of Asians, 52% of whites, 43% of blacks, 48% of Hispanics. Please tell me how exactly you can reach 75% out of any summation of those ethnic groups.

Here's the thing, in the numbers you quoted, yes they are. You are specifically switching from adults to total population with the numbers you are giving. Here is the text from the reference you are posting, notice the part where you say "total population in 44 states-excluding a handful of states like the one you insist is in there".

READ YOUR OWN ARTICLE.

I know, who on Earth would support a person taking drugs from the pharmaceutical industry? I guess you're a medical doctor too, right? Your standard.

The Centers for F***ing Disease Control. You think I don't do my homework here? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/distributing/demographics-vaccination-data.html

Not just Ivermectin, although that on is problematic obviously. He specifically said "Young and healthy people don't need to worry about getting the vaccine" (false, that's literally why vaccines work, he claimed mRNA vaccines are "Gene therapy" (completely false), and ranted about how vaccine mandates are abhorrent and offensive to the things established in 1776 (complete misunderstanding of history, and notably George Washington instituted a smallpox vaccine mandate for his army). So he is also a serial misinformer on this subject who has taken advantage of his platform to encourage things that hurt people.

What is “starter money” for a catcher? His contract with the Nats was 2/$10 and he’s making $6 million this year. Is that untenable for this team? Both of the Astros catchers are earning about $3.5 million this year. Starter money for a catcher isn’t a lot.

So everyone, I would like to present this as an absolutely excellent example of how to mislead with statistics. It is not lying, but it is a statistic presented without important context. What context is missing? That there is a huge bias in who has gotten the vaccine by age. Over 80% of people in the US above age 50 have gotten at least 1 shot, according to the CDC numbers (note some bias is possible because some states do not report). At the same time, the population over age 50 is overwhelmingly white compared to the average of the country. To say this another way, the average age of a white person in this country is 58, while for a minority it is 27 (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-racial-ethnic-groups/). That means...if a young person is less likely to be vaccinated...it will require that minorities are less likely to be vaccinated as a consequence, because younger people are more diverse. Especially considering that most under 12 cannot legally be vaccinated right now, it is effectively required that the vaccination rate among black people will be lower than white. It is not the easiest to work across statistical groups from the Census to the CDC since they aren't counting everyone the same way, and there are some biases in missing people from the CDC not counted. But, if you try to correct for age - it accounts for at least 7% of the difference between those ethnic groups. It may even be higher - if the states with lots of unvaccinated White People, like Texas, are selectively not reporting data to the CDC, which I believe is true. In other words, if you correct for age - effectively the entire difference between White and Black people goes away, and the vaccination rates are, within error of 9 missing states - effectively identical. The odds of a 30 year old white person being vaccinated are similar to those of a 30 year old black person. The odds of a 30 year old Hispanic person being vaccinated appear to be higher than both others. While every group needs to improve, the biggest thing we need to do is address the age group issue. Given that the problem is focused in the ages under 50, particularly the working age population - adding in mandates in workplaces and schools is a strongly supported way to solve this problem. Similarly, getting approval for the vaccine for younger age populations is required as well - as that cannot be fixed without doing so.

Doesn't Romy have more ability to play the OF than Mendick?

And in literally the least surprising news ever except to a handful of posters here...Vaughn is now put on the 10 day IL. Sure woulda been nice to do that on Friday/Saturday.

Finally have played the same number of games as Houston, so with the tiebreaker the Sox would need to be 3 wins better than them over their last 19. If they went 10-9, the White Sox would need to go 13-6 for the 2 seed. Lotsa leverage on each remaining loss.

There was a guy at my gym yesterday, in New York State, in a Kelenic T shirt.

no? he was heading sideways. Had he continued running at full speed he might have run 300 more feet and hit the foul pole. https://www.mlb.com/redsox/video/enrique-hernandez-s-double

Hydroxychloroquine had an emergency use authorization last summer when there were no known treatments. It was revoked last fall once there was sufficient data showing it was useless and that the side effects had probably killed people. Ivermectin has never received such an authorization.