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  1. brettac1
    If you think there isn't a serious lack of quality experience and leadership on this team, you aren't paying attention. OK, so they need old, past their prime guys? Like the Giants? Seriously, nothing is more overrated and overvalued, not to mention expensive, than "veterans". Give me a bunch of young studs any day over some old guys. EDIT: How about some names, though. Just wait until the World Series ends and sign the FA's off of that team, because they're "winners'?
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    For $10 mill/ yr, I expected more heart than that. Wow. You're kidding, right? He had a bad game. It happens, even to great pitchers, especially at Coors. I think you're overblowing this just a smidge when you say he's heartless, aren't you?
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    - leaders - who have won something should definitely be on Doug's shopping list this off season. Yeah! Like Craig Counsell! Come on. They lost. Get over it.
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    not putting the ball in play... They only have 4 K's, it's not like the haven't hit the ball.
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    Any time your ERA goes up .50 when you have logged 130+ innings, you know you pitched really, really bad.
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    Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't close.
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    EDR, just so you know (I'm pretty sure you do), I'm in agreement with you on VORP, as I have said a bunch of times before. I once in a while do like to use VORPr, though.
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    Thank you, Bill. There are a bunch of others on the EZIssues forum having the same problem I am, so hopefully they can get it resolved so I can ramble.
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    I would have posted the entire article, but for some strange reason I am incapable of having really long posts for some reason, if you keep up with the "Issues" forum - I can only do a couple paragraphs, which sucks.
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    There is interesting stuff in both of those. The only problem with the original is that the BP study, that was published on ESPN.com, is missing. I found that, through Woolner's old Stathead page, however, I had to highlight everything in order to read it. Other than that, yeah it's a good article as well. LINK: "Blowouts and the Value of Closers" (Keith Woolner)
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    Beat ya to it NIGHTWING, but here's some more links, not from BP but relevant no less: "How Mighty the Pen Can Be" (KC Stat Guy) "Ten Things About One-Run Games" (Hardball Times) There's a few links in the second one that are good, as well. Enjoy.
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    I will try and find it, I think it's probably in their "Library' section on the site. LINK : Bullpens, a good piece on one-run games in here I couldn't find the exact piece that HOFFY was talking about, but you may be able to find it by searching the site.
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    I believe they said that bullpens were likely the reason for this, and why some teams succeed more in one run games, like the Angels of recent years, or the Nats earlier this season, as Cordero was, and still may be, first in WXRL.
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    The A's make it a point of drafting high character players, and it seems as though the Brewers value character quite a bit. Character is important, because you have to live with them each day for 8 months. DHonks, you made an excellent post, and I agree with rluz saying the A's were very talented, and they were/are. This part I really agreed with, but I don't consider character to be a part of heart. I would think things like criminal histories, etc. are accessible and in the context of this discussion, quantifiable.
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    I do want to thank BrewCityUnit. He has started some good discussions lately that have been quite fun to be a part of.
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    Well then show me a productive out stat that is used. There was one, the link is in the "Productive Outs" thread, but ESPN quit tracking it when they realized that the teams that were at the top of productive outs were in the bottom of runs scored, and vice versa. It was basically a useless stat, that again had no correlation to winning.
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    Should I go on? It's called "heart." Looks to me like those are just normal events in a game that every player is involved in. When he dives for a fly ball instead of letting it drop in front of him without an attempt. Sometimes, this is called "stupid", especially if no one is behind you.
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    Maybe it wasn't their heart, but rather their talent, and some teams were smart enough to realize it, which I think was the case with Clark. He was an undervalued guy that got on base a bunch, much more than he was a guy with heart.
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    These are completely different sports. When does a baseball player pass the ball to his teammates? Baseball and basketball are apples and oranges. Just like baseball and football are.
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    Look at the Oakland teams of the 1970's they won 3 World Series in a row, and many of them despised each other. Rollie Fingers and Blue Moon Odom got in a fist fight in the locker room, for cripes sakes. Does anyone honestly think that the great Yankees teams in the 90's got along with all the egos on the team?
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    Except when they can't perform coherently because they don't give a crap about about anyone else the outcome isn't as efficient as it would if that same talented person had "heart." But how would one demonstrate this? That is the question to ponder, isn't it? I'd like to believe that it exists and has a correlation to winning, but no one can prove it to me. Until they do, color me unimpressed.
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    Oh yeah Corey Sullivan sucks because he's hitting 5.3(%?) worse than a nebulous mathmatical formula that changes every time a CF comes to the plate. Sullivan's VORP is -5.7, actually.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif But it's not % points, it's Runs Below the mythological Replacement Player. It's cumulative, but an easier way to show his VORPr (his VORP/gm.) extrapolated over 162 games, as I am want to do. Sullivan's VORPr is -.092, which means he costs his team a full run (in comparision to the RP) per 10 games or so, or about 15 runs a season, using the rule of 10 - 1.5 wins. You can wake up now.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
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    I agree with that. If all the other variables are equal (talent, age, performance, injury history, etc.), then you could use something like your interpretation of "heart" to determine who you would prefer to acquire. When all things aren't equal, like normal, you need to take the guy who is a better player when measured conventionally with statistics. For every Bonds and Sheffield in the hall there will be a Jeter and Schilling. Schilling is often considered selfish and a drama queen, and a lot of his teammates don't like him. Boston doesn't care because he's good. I thought players played the game to win titles, not make the Hall. Show me one player who singlehandedly won a title. There isn't one. All players need talented players surrounding them.
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    Except for the fact that it was a contract year in which he was to become a free agent. He produced, didn't he? There really aren't any seasons in which you could say he didn't, aside from those when he was 20-23 or so, in which a lot of guys fresh out of HS would struggle.
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    Who does and who doesn't, though? Don't production and talent win the day over "heart", since you can easily identify them? I would rather have a team of Jeters though than a team of Sheffields even though Sheffield has a higher OPS because all those Sheffields would cause so much chaos in the locker room that half of them would quit on the other ones OK, let's look at this now. Say theoretically a team has 5500 AB in a season. You could use OXS to give you a simple runs scored calculation, so using Jeter and Sheffield career averages: All-Sheffield: 1162 runs scored All-Jeter: 963 runs scored I'll take Sheff.
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