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  1. DuWayne Steurer
    Atlanta's mayor said that they'll be tearing down the Ted in 2017. I mean, I know having a big ol' stadium sitting there empty is pretty much a waste of space, but man. 20 years old, and getting torn down. Man......
  2. DuWayne Steurer
    Interesting that this is going counter to the recent trend of moving out of the burbs and back into the downtown areas of the major metros. This is quite a ways out (almost 15 miles) from the downtown hub of Atlanta. Not sure what this will do for travel time for those coming from the south. Wonder what this will do for their playoff attendance......... :D
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    This is the problem. Neal and Mayo shot lights out (10 of 12 from 3-land), and they still barely beat the Cavs. I know Ersan didn't dress out, and Sanders didn't play, but when your shooters shoot the way they did, you should beat a bad team, at home, without having to sweat it out in the final seconds. Still, it's nice to see Henson put up a nice line, and what's up with Wolters almost pushing a triple double???
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    3 games in, and Sanders is getting 17 mpg. I don't even know what to say about that. What everyone was worried about......"who's going to score the points?" is coming true. Pachulia leads the team at 13.0 PPG. Neal looks horrific so far. I'll be surprised if this squad wins more than 25 games.
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    Frank Jobe is more integral to baseball history than Tommy John is. Tommy John had a decent career, but he's just the lucky schmo who had the surgery named after him.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    Simmons, Cox, LaRussa, Steinbrenner, and Miller. Garvey is incredibly over-rated. Defensive metrics don't really like him, and a career .775 OPS for a 1B just doesn't impress. He didn't hit for a lot of power, or draw a lot of walks. Parker had a better prime, but he just tailed off too quickly. He had a bit of a resurgence later on, but not quite enough for me to say he should be in the Hall. I know the argument is that "Rice and Dawson = Parker".........but, I don't want the inclusion of 2 "Hall of Very Good" players to continue to be the argument that more "Hall of Very Good players should be let in.
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    Some flakes actually fell for about 5 minutes all the way south here in Rock County (but melted when they hit the ground). Not often we get snow (even if it DOES melt on impact) near the stateline in October. I'm hoping for nothing measurable until around Christmas.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    I wouldn't hold his post-season numbers against him, but I absolutely want ZERO part of the last 3-4 (or even 5) years of that contract. Not to mention the fact that there's a good possibility that his last few years may see him relegated strictly to DH duty, which is something the Brewers can't offer.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    And I think that's silly. Go inside if you have to, intentionally walk him if you want, but there's no need to risk injuring a guy because he's good. Eddie Matthews hit four homers in a game once (almost five I believe) and the opposing team drilled him in the head causing him to miss significant time. That's just moronic. Whoever said throw at the head? Right. Because nobody has ever missed time from getting hit in the hand, or wrist, or knee or something....
  10. DuWayne Steurer
    That's how I feel. I shouldn't be pulling for the Dodgers, but I absolutely can't root for the Braves right now. I just can't. And honestly, if I had an MVP vote, it would be going to Hanley Ramirez, and all 86 games that he played in.
  11. DuWayne Steurer
    I just threw up in my mouth a little. It makes me wonder if fans of other teams start as many rumors on their fan-boards as we do about bringing back former players. I swear, the 'bring back Sheets' threads made me want to punch holes in brick walls.
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    Knowing McCan't went 0-for the series makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The Braves have now lost 6 straight divisional series, and that doen't include losing last year's wild-card play-in game. But at least they play 'the right way'.
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    Makes playoffs, but loses a one-game playoff. Gets fired. I mean........I think Dusty Baker is a guy who doesn't really 'get' the SABRE stuff, he's not the best manager out there, but it always seems like his guys like playing for him. He's one of those "gets max effort" type managers. I don't know what that counts for in W's and L's, but I'm sure it counts for something. I'll be surprised if he's not managing somewhere else next year.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    The Royals brass must not feel they're quite ready to contend yet.
  15. DuWayne Steurer
    I like this. Aoki just doesn't profile as a corner outfielder, and his OBP doesn't do enough for me to say "well, he's the prototype leadoff guy, so he fit that bill at least". I know it was a small sample, but Davis hit well, and he hit at every level in the minors. He's ready. I don't think a .275/.350/.475 line would be an out of line expectation for him. Even a .500 SLG seems within his capablities, honestly.
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    Here's the point though.........was Votto hurting the team by not driving in runs? He got on base, and a guy with a pretty bad slash line (Phillips) drove in over 100 runs. What does it matter WHO drove in the runs, as long as they got driven in? Phillips and Jay Bruce both had over 100 RBI, so those runs were still getting knocked in. Cincinnati had a run expectancy of 703 runs (or thereabouts) and scored 698, so they were within 5 runs of expectency over 162 games. Obviously Votto not swinging at things outside of his comfort zone isn't costing the team runs. Methodology isn't as important here as the result. And the result is that Cincinnati was still scoring the expected amount of runs that they should have, as a direct result of Votto's obscene OBP. Some may argue that Votto isn't an elite hitter because he's not driving in runs. That's nonsense. He's creating runs, and that's all that matters. He's not making outs 45% of the time, and that's the absolute definition of elite in this day and age. RBI is an antiquated notion that doesn't necessarily need to go away, but it can no longer be tied so intrinsicly to performance.
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    What the hell is such a big deal about any hitter admiring a long home run? . Um...........I just said, it doesn't really bother me. It's just not something I'm a big 'fan' of. I don't care if guys do it, or not. It doesn't matter to me, one way or the other. The only thing that bothers me about it (as I said before) is when a guy like Pujols watches his HR's, and then chides others for doing so. I think you misconstrued what I said. I don't care if a guy watches his homers, or not. When I say I'm 'not a fan', I should have changed the way I worded it. I don't draw extra entertainment value from it, but......it doesn't bother me. As long as a guy isn't trying to directly diss an opponent (pointing, jawing, that sort of stuff), I just don't care. I mentioned Bryce Harper because he's had a few instances of being kind of a dick, and pointing at pitchers, benches and stuff. That's not necessary.
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    So much to say here... I think Gomez sometimes rubs teams the wrong way because he plays, literally, 110% all the time. He runs everything out at full speed, he throws balls back to the infield at full blast, even when nobody is on base, etc, etc, etc. He's not showing anyone up, that's just how he plays. The other night.......he just, yeah. For whatever reason, he felt the hit back in July was on purpose. Was it? Only Maholm knows. I'm not giving Gomez a pass on how he behaved, but this whole 'keepers of baseball etiquette' and 'we play the game the right way' crap is seriously ridiculous from Maholm, McCann, and Freeman. I'm not a big FAN of guys admiring their home runs, but it doesn't really bother me. The only time it really irks me is when it's a guy like Pujols who does it everytime he hits a long fly ball, and then tells other guys not to do it. If a guy wants to watch a homerun, I don't care. As long as he doesn't make a big show (Bryce Harper) of it. The other stuff......all the plunking and stuff......that's last century nonsense that baseball really needs to let go of. It's like fighting in hockey. It serves no purpose. Zero. None.
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    Kingman came to mind for me as well, he didn't quite make the cut. Tony Armas had a .707 OPS in 1983, with 103 RBI (with a .256 OBP!!!)
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    He's the other guy I knew I should have checked. You see, I knew it wasn't going to be anyone from the dead ball era......I just knew it wasn't. There weren't enough 100 RBI guys from that time for there to be a 'bad' hitter to be in a prime lineup spot with the ability to collect 100 RBI.
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    What baffles me (and everyone) is that Yost had Shouse INTENTIONALLY walk Howard, who OPS's .697 off of lefties, to get to Burrell. There's just no getting around the fact that it was just one decision amongst many that was a clue-in to the fact that he just didn't get the finer points of bullpen managment. Joe Sheehan wrote an AWESOME article about it after the firing. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=8077 The best part was this paragraph...... "Think about this for a second. Yost had a 481 OPS pitcher facing a 697 OPS hitter. He elected to issue an intentional walk in that situation to allow an 817 OPS pitcher to face a 905 OPS hitter with an additional runner on base. That's when you start looking around the roof of the stadium for snipers, because gunpoint is the only place where that kind of decision makes sense."
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    Well butter my biscuits. Just at random, I guessed that Ruben Sierra might have been one of those guys. Lots of RBI, but terrible OBP skills. Turns out in 1993, Ruben drove in 101 runs, while putting up a .233/.288/.390 slash line, for a putrid .678 OPS. Wow. Just wow.
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    I don't know how you would filter a site like fangraphs or B-R to easily figure this out, but I would wager that Phillips current .711 OPS has to be amongst the lowest, if not lowest ever for a guy in the modern (post 1900) era for a guy with 100 RBI. I can't fathom a guy reaching 100 RBI with a sub-.700 OPS. I've always argued that anybody who bats 4th, who can hit .250, and hit 20 - 25 homers with 3 decent OBP guys in front of him can reach 100 RBI, and this is the ultimate argument that RBI is a somewhat meaningless statistic. Does anyone know of an easy way to filter a site like fangraphs to see if Phillips truly is the *worst* 100 RBI guy ever? Also, it should be pointed out that Phillips made it to 100 RBI because Joey Votto only had 70 some RBI because of his massive walk totals. Votto is actually getting chided by some of the media for taking so many walks, and not trying to drive in some of those runners. Yeah......getting on base is teh suxors.....
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    *Fail continuously*? C'mon, really? I get it, and don't have ANY beef with you disagreeing with the organizational philosophy, but don't you think *fail continuously* is a bit disingenuous when they're still less than 2 years removed from an NLCS appearance?
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    Calling what Bianchi does 'hitting' is being too kind. :D I never figured Bianchi for much more than back of the bench filler, but he's been really bad this year. No power, and his OBP stinks. Maybe he's somewhat better than this, but for someone who may get 200-250 PA's, I'd like to get someone that can either hit with a little bit of power, or draw a walk once in a while. Bianchi does neither.
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