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QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 02:15 AM) If you need help I can help you. I was a star English student and can write sentences. You're missing a comma.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 28, 2014 -> 08:27 PM) Hayden Fry had the visitor locker room at Kinnick Stadium painted pink in 1979. It has remained pink ever since. Tomorrow an Iowa professor will be organizing a protest saying it is sexist and homophobic. I hate the word homophobic. Hate it so much.

Tonight the Sox gained a half game on..... Rockies, Astros Sox are still sitting at #8. Sox are 6.5 GB of the #1 pick, and 3.5 GB of the #5 pick

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 31, 2014 -> 01:53 AM) Isn't it different for different players? Like Jason Heyward, his game his like 30% batting 50% fielding and 20% baserunning. Whereas Abreu is like 95% batting and 4% fielding 1% baserunning (perhaps hyperbolic, perhaps not). When by far the biggest compenent of Abreu's game is so far beyond what anyone else is doing at the plate it needs to count more. Abreu is here to hit the s*** out of baseballs, and he's doing just that, why penalize him for his position and they way he fields it? I guess this is the problem I have with WAR once it gets to the upper reaches of MLB talent. It's a fine, insightful, stat for almost every player in baseball, but once you get to the absolute cream of the crop it loses its damn mind. Really, look at Trout's offensive numbers this year and tell me he's the best position player in the game. s***, look at how he's performed defensively too. He's still great, still the best CF in the game... but he's not the best overall player. What in the hell are Kyle Seager and Anthony Rendon doing all the way up there? Jhonny Peralta is better than Adam Jones and Michael Brantley? What? It just seems arbitrary; like the top 20 players in baseball are shuffled up and spat out in random order. I can't figure out where WAR gets the idea to put these guys. Dave Cameron likes to say that the top 10-15 guys in WAR are generally your MVP candidates. He argues that let's say you are comparing a guy with a 5.9 WAR to a guy with a 5.1 WAR, you can't just say the 5.9 guy is clearly better. He concedes that we don't know the exact margin of error for WAR, or at least fWAR, but generally anyone within about 1 WAR of eachother can be considered equals, or at least you can't definitively say one is better than the other simply based off that one metric. He says when you start getting 2-3 WAR apart, you really struggle to make a case for the other player. In the case of Trout versus Abreu, there is a 1.4 WAR difference. Then you can also do the math on the other 80 PA that Trout has over Abreu due to injury, and you are getting close to the 1 WAR margin of error that Cameron GUESSES is fair.

Blackmar has had a pretty decent season in A+. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/p...id=blackm002mar Chalas..... shares a birthday with my dad. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/p...id=chalas001mig

YES!!!!!! GOOD RIDDANCE.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 11:46 AM) Then why bring up Baez and Soler? Soler was signed to a major league contract, so calling him up really doesn't change anything contractually. For Baez to be called up while he was striking out a ton in AAA was surprising to me. I mean, Baez and Davidson had the same K-rate this season in AAA. Baez did not deserve a call-up.

QUOTE (flavum @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 07:57 PM) Somebody on twitter with 1200+ followers tweeted that he hears Adam Dunn could be going to Oakland soon. We'll see... It should be noted that this person is a journalist, which is way more credible than just some guy. So there is actually something on the line for this person. Jim Benson ‏@Pg_Benson 7m Hearing Sox slugger Adam Dunn could be joining Oakland soon....

The obvious answer here is that we've traded Andy Wilkins. lol.

QUOTE (1dog @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 07:43 PM) Ha, had to watch it again. It looked like it, but that's not possible. I think it was one of those rubber rings that they sometimes wear on their fingers. Are you sure? He grabs his bat and it looks like he runs his hand over the chunk that is missing out of it. I'm not DVRing the game, so I can't check.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 07:35 PM) I think it's very likely. Who else would be getting dealt that would result in Wilkins getting called up? Why does someone have to be getting traded? Maybe they are just giving Wilkins these last couple days off before the rosters expand on Sept. 1st as a reward for a tremendous season? I mean, I hope there is a trade, but twitter is dead right now on the rumor front.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 06:38 PM) Wait... did Dunn get dealt? What would make you deduce that? Wilkins being lifted from the game for his call-up? While I find it weird that he got singled out from the AAA game, I don't think we can be lucky enough to think Dunn has been traded.

Uh...did Avi just PUNCH a chunk out of his bat??

Rodon through 4 innings. 4 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 7 K. Not as it seems it started. He is settling in.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 02:38 AM) What's the difference between defense at 35% and fielding at 15%? I meant 15% baserunning.

I really hope he reaches 40 HR. That's a fun plateau.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 07:53 AM) What was that guy's name from yesteryear? Last name Ring. First Round pick as a closer, made it to Mets for a cup of orange juice. Royce Ring?

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 30, 2014 -> 12:02 AM) Baserunning, sure. I'll give you that. But this PREMIUM DEFENSIVE POSITION REPLACEMENT LEVEL crap has to stop. Any player who can hit like Abreu holds tremendous value, I'd go so far as to say unequaled value. Abreu is the only player, regardless of position slugging above .600. Not only that, he's the only one even close. He's the only player in baseball that has even a remote chance of an OPS over 1.000. He leads MLB in wOBA and WRC+ too, lack of baserunning and all. It doesn't matter what position Abreu plays, he is cramming much more offense than anyone else in baseball into one spot in the lineup. There are plenty of teams that are not getting Abreu like production out of their 4 and 5 hitters combined (totally unverified claim). Don't give me the "well you see Trout plays center and the average center fielder can't hit near as well as the average first...", Abreu so far out classes what anyone in baseball does with the bat arguments over positional semantics are worthless. I'm not saying Abreu has an offensive advantage over Trout because he plays 1B versus CF. I am saying Trout is INCREDIBLY more valuable on defense than Abreu is. The worst defensive CF will have more value than the best defensive 1B. Some people may argue that batting is 50% of a player, defense is about 35% and baserunning is 15%. You are talking about half the equation going to Abreu by a reasonable margin (batting), and then you are talking about the other half going to Trout by a MILE (defense and baserunning). Obviously that's not scientific percentages, it's just another way to think about where value may come from in all 3 aspects.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 23, 2014 -> 06:37 PM) f*** it, he's gonna be the Rookie of the Year over Tanaka. All-Star each year of his deal. He'll make Puig's numbers look pedestrian. The Grantland article said even for league adjustment, his numbers blew Miguel Cabrera out of the water. So let's use him as a base. .320/.430/.600 slashline with 40+ HR. JDFA Not far off, just needs a f***ton more walks.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 07:17 PM) .301/ .360 OBP/ .910 OPS 37 HR/ 108 RBI Could be very close with a bad September.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 13, 2014 -> 03:16 PM) That's what I was going for with my prediction of 104 RBI based off only a .270 AVG and 28 HR. I see a lot of doubles, and a great AVG W/RISP. Well at least I got that right.

QUOTE (black jack @ Jan 12, 2014 -> 04:29 PM) I'm expecting a .320 batting average with 30+ homers and 100+ rbi. We MAY have a winner...

Hope you boys took the OVER.

QUOTE (BaconOnAStick @ Aug 29, 2014 -> 11:40 PM) Abreu now leads Trout in every meaningful offensive category (incl WRC+ and woba) except OBP (Trout by .001) and, obviously, stolen bases. ....and then you remember that defense and baserunning exist.

Tonight the Sox gained a game on.... Texas, Arizona, Boston, Cubs. Sox have moved up the #8 pick. Sox are 7 GB of the #1 pick, and 4 GB of the #4/#5 pick.