southsider2k5

Robert and Burdi were two names that have been previously mentioned by writers.

Cheers brother.

These two posts need to be quoted together. If you are really wanting to do actual statistical analysis, you would understand that the bell curve of statistics lies in the middle, and not on the wings. This does NOT apply only to the low end, but the high end as well. A player like Fransisco Lindor is much of an outlier on the top end, as Adam Engel is on the bottom end. Their numbers will apply just as much skew to to average, as they are each one person and equally weighted in averaging. You used the term "lying to yourself" here, and due to the fact that your statements of how we are to view this topic have been repeatedly and quite clearly been proven wrong on a perpetual basis, I think the problem is your internal bias system is telling you that Tim Anderson isn't a good player, and you are lying to yourself trying to make it fact, when in fact cumulative and complete statistics destroy your hypothesis. I mean in points in this discussion it is your own posts which are providing the best materials to prove your own points wrong.

This is immaterial. You said average, and those are quite literally the average of MLB and the AL. Again, this premise is wrong. You keep making definitive statements as if they are fact, but the numbers are just not there for them. Your opinions are not supported by the actual facts here.

Also this is wrong. MLB average today is .249/.319/.730, the AL clocks in slightly higher at .250/.318/.734 http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting

This thread makes my head hurt.

As has been proven statistically in the other thread, if you have two shortstops as good, or better than Tim Anderson you would have two league average (or better) shortstops. The idea that Tim Anderson is a bench player is just false. Half of MLB would have Tim Anderson starting on their teams. Just because one stat is bad, doesn't mean he is bad. This thread is so wrong, Snopes is about to take it up.

Especially since if you actually take the time and do peer comparisons, the narrative in question here has been definitively proven false, repeatedly.

His actual RC+ which I quoted earlier is right in the middle of the pack today for all MLB SS's. That stat's only purpose is the attempt to quantify what a players complete offensive package contributes versus other ML players. This stat is the most complete look at offense in terms of runs generated. The fun part? Anderson's OPS also ranks 16th among all MLB SSs, again right smack in the middle of the pack. Quite literally if you look at any other stat than OBP, Tim Anderson is in the middle of the pack, or better.

Scoring runs is the heart of offense, it is quite literally the point of baseball. It's why we lead with runs, and not walks or hits, when we say what is going on in a game. Anderson creates runs and he is whiz a preventing them.

Fry must just be impossible to pick up the ball on.

ReyLo, The Last Jedi.

Hopefully they Google it and them watch the greatest movie of all time.

And half of Soxtalk is pissed about it hurting draft position.

No. Anymore questions?

That's Heady Lamarr.

Engel, not to be outdone by Hicks.

Damn Hicks with another beauty.

And now Stanton goes from bases loaded to leading off an inning.

Nice play on both ends of that. Perfect throw and tag. That is not an easy play for a pitcher to make while running to cover home.

Yeah, to be clear the Yankees went in looking fastball, and Lopez has been commanding all of his off speed stuff to make it work.

Nice stop by Smith.

97 on strike 2.

Davidson should get that ER.

Somebody needs turn that Davidson play into a bad day gif.