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  1. topper09er
    getting carried away here but Hardy is slow... there have been 232 players who have played at least 530 games at SS, including hardy, and he ranks 229th with 5 career SB.
  2. topper09er
    a few stats, career XB%, % of time runner takes more than 1 base on a single or more than 2 bases on a double when possible. Career numbers for NL SS of 2009: Rollins 48% Ramirez 48% Escobar, Y 48% Reyes 50% Guzman 53% Ryan 47% Theriot 46% Hardy 36% Janish 41% Tejada 45% Wilson 51% Furcal 49% Tulowitzki 54% Renteria 46% Drew, S 40% no padre has enough PT Also Hart 49% Braun 48% Fielder, Prince 20% Fielder, Cecil 26% (played in a much larger stadium in Detroit?) After seeing this in the current era of more slugging SS I wonder Hardy ranks all-time on XB% among SS through age 27? I would think very close to the bottom.
  3. topper09er
    Is this one of those scenarios where it is literally impossible to watch in the entire state except for milwaukee because the mlb extra innings is always blacked out in the entire state even though wmlw is only in Milwaukee? So no possible cable provider/bar could show this game on TV anywhere in the state except milwaukee? It just pissess me off so much that they black out the extra innings package to areas where there is no alternate way to watch the game.
  4. topper09er
    That is one of the things that most drove me nuts about Hardy. How is a guy in that athletic of shape and his size not faster? I mean he could be considered down right slow. I cannot think of any professional athlete of a similar body type/age (6'2", 200, mid 20s) who is slower. Even notorious slow guys like Sean Casey was 6'4" 235 or pocket passing QBs can at least run occasionally when they are still in their 20s.
  5. topper09er
    The most annoying point that the Yankee fans always make is that they deserve the extra money because they have the best fans and the best owner, but no matter how many times you try to explain it to them they will never accept the fact that they dont have better fans they just have more fans. Just because you were born on an island where 20 million people live does mean you like baseball more than I do, plus in addition to that they have a national TV network (ESPN) that promotes their team to kids across the country who do not live in a major league city so they get even more fans that way as well.
  6. topper09er
    But as I wrote earlier his slugging skills would be wasted batting 1st if he slugs .517 like he did over the first 40 games last season.
  7. topper09er
    After a little baseball-reference work here are the lowest RBI/HR ratios of all-time for players with 200 HR: 1) Mark McGwire 583/1414 2) Adam Dunn 316/777 3) Rob Deer 230/600 (my favorite player from the 80s brewers) 4) Barry Bonds 762/1996 5) Alfonso Soriano 290/760
  8. topper09er
    I would disagree completely, the least valuable time to hit for power is with no one on base, which is why Braun/Fielder dont hit 1-2, because it is a waste for them to hit so many solo HRs after the pitcher strikes out. I think it is completely idiotic that the cubs hit Soriano 1 so they waste all of his HRs, look at some of his years, 39 HR/102 RBI; 38 HR/91 RBI; 46 HR/96 RBI!, total waste of that power. It would be sad to see Weeks hit 25 HR with only ~ 60 RBI when he would have more like 100 RBI with his power hitting in the 5 hole. As was said before the ideal situation is to have Gomez-Escobar 1-2 or 2-1 followed by Braun-Fielder-Weeks. As far as this discussion I definitely support Gomez 1 and Weeks 2.
  9. topper09er
    what just happened, guy scored from 2nd on wild pitch with no throwing error???
  10. topper09er
    yeah, well, thats, just... like, your, opinion...man
  11. topper09er
    I remember his press conference when he left he started crying because of how much he loved Milwaukee.
  12. topper09er
    I only boo when: 1) Lack of effort (the only thing to do in baseball that is easy is running) 2) Mental mistake (throwing to the wrong base, etc) 3) Failed bunt attempts that are extremely pathetic (especially when the player does not even remotely attempt to use the correct bunting technique) 4) The players nickname is Moose
  13. topper09er
    Also, seriously, who cares that the All-Star game tied after 12 innings? I mean, who cares?! People talk about that like he implemented the DH or something.
  14. topper09er
    I love Bud and us Brewer fans should defend him as a great commish because for some reason all other fans seem to just absolutely hate him. Everything that went wrong during his tensure is the players union fault and the progress made from 1994 when millions of fans were vowing to never watch again to now when MLB has the same revenues as the NFL is amazing. Bud tried to implement a steroids policy in 1995 and the union shot it down. Also, in the future, maybe a ways off still, everyone is going to get their TV over the internet and Bud has wisely implemented a policy that all internet revenue is equally shared by all teams.
  15. topper09er
    June 28, 2008, Jered Weaver (6) and Jose Arredondo (2), Los Angeles (AL) at Los Angeles (NL), 0-1. June 12, 2007, Justin Verlander, Detroit (AL) vs. Milwaukee (NL), 4-0. June 11, 2003, Roy Oswalt (1 inning), Pete Munro (2 2-3), Kirk Saarloos (1 1-3), Brad Lidge (2) and Octavio Dotel (1), Billy Wagner (1), Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 8-0. July 18, 1999, David Cone, N.Y. Yankees vs. Montreal, 6-0. Oct. 8, 1956, Don Larsen, N.Y. Yankees vs. Brooklyn (NL), 2-0 So only Cone and Verlander have one on their own...I guess Don Larsen too.
  16. topper09er
    One of only 2 pitchers who threw a no hitter in interleague play...i forget against who though
  17. topper09er
    Ryan Braun led the league in slugging even when extra outs were added to his stats to come up to the min ABs required, in a league with Pujols, Howard, etc. Not even close. Also, I agree with RockCo, this sabr stuff is getting out of hand. I think some of the biggest problems are people trying to attach any future prediction to it...it has none, and the fact the people sometimes get too hung up on scoring as many runs as possible when the actual goal is to win games. Clearly, there are some times when bunting or stealing bases is the best strategy.
  18. topper09er
    Oops, well he should be glad he wasnt traded to Toronto then
  19. topper09er
    I did not exclude any months, I gave 1 month and then the rest of the season, but here you go: April .333 .430 .667 MVP caliber May .247 .339 .464 average June .153 .301 .235 below replacement July .306 .390 .506 all-star caliber August .262 .345 .456 average Sept/Oct .216 .270 .422 terrible/replacement level ish and if you combine April with June you get: 48 G .235/.358/.433 which is slightly above average. You definetly cannot say he was fantastic except for June, but if you did then you would infact be selectively including some months and not others. without June he was: .268/.350/.512 which is very good but the OBP is still nothing special, but then you are excluding months which doesnt make any sense like you said.
  20. topper09er
    His range factor on his career is below average despite the fact he plays near the grass. I would imagine in the dome it will get much worse.
  21. topper09er
    Cameron in April: 20 G .333/.430/.667Rest of season: 129 G .237/.328/.419 Not exactly a black hole still better than Gomez's career marks but nothing special. Also, I based on the eye test I have always thought Hardy was a below average fielder because he has about the worst range I have ever seen by a ML SS. He has a good glove and very good arm, but I think range is the number 1 aspect for every position except for catcher and maybe 3B and hardy has got to be one of slowest players in the league relative to his age and body type.
  22. topper09er
    I made a small mistake with this because we are comparing the 2 over a sample of 50 PAs, and I am saying Escobar has 66 SB attempts when he was only on base 50 times, so it should be:50 doubles = 50*.78 =~39 runs 47 1B + 3 BB + (Ill assume a 80% SB clip which is VERY high) 40 SB + 10 CS = 47*.47 + 3*.33+40*.3-10*.52 =~ 30 runs (the difference is very small) This does show something which does not make sense to me, that a 2B is worth .78 runs but a single + SB is worth .77 runs. These seem far too close because they both have the same run scoring oppurtunity but a double obviously has more RBI oppurtunity so it seems like it should be more valuable. I guess the difference must come when you look at an entire season worth of stats and factor in CS also...but according to this formula a player who goes 3 for 3 on stolen bases produces the same as a player with 0 SB and 3 more doubles..does not seem right.
  23. topper09er
    Well you would think Billy Beane would only hire a "Billy Beane school of baseball" guy to be his own manager.
  24. topper09er
    Or Ryan Braun hits a 2 out double, you have a righty pitcher and Fielder followed by Hart, would you IBB Prince there? You are up by 1 run in the 8th inning.
  25. topper09er
    So in 2001 with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th, up by 1 run and no one on base would you IBB or pitch to Barry Bonds?
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