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I heard he predicted the Vince Carter dunk over that French dude.
Kinda skinny? She has 20 ribs!!!
Tree of Knowledge, I reckon. [IMG]
Yeah, I kept screaming at the TV, "Why aren't you throwing your slider?" for the first few batters.
That's what I was thinking but what does "runner out advancing" mean? Specifically, how do you score that on your card?
Okay, gurus: What's the ruling on a play in which a fielder allows a hitter to reach first by failing to make a routine play, but said fielder...
Or a free Whataburger.
A friend of mine in high school said his mother, a nurse, had dealt with four people who had roaches stuck in their ears.
The sabremetriheads will tell you that no one can predict what side of the field the ball will go when a player makes contact. So, Adam hitting...
I realize OPS probably isn't so great as it stands, but some combination of the two parts is useful if it can tell you how often a player gets on...
If there's a tradeoff between OBP and power, then some combination of the two is a better gauge, because, as I read into your statments, a guy...
The point of Moneyball isn't that no one used stats before, but that many scouts relied too heavily on "feel" and, as importantly, the wrong...
Right, which is why OPS is a better gauge. Frequency on base + power
Actually, I think OPS is considered the most important because it not only measure how often you get on base, but how far you get on the bases....
Preston comes in to Kayne's "Touch the Sky".
I guess asking if you subscribe to Baseball Prospectus is a stupid question then. Replace the first "plate appearances" with "at-bats" before...
Thanks. I forgot sacrifices didn't count as ABs. What an oddity!
Jeter's well-rounded? Wasn't he ranked as the worst AL shortstop defensively in The Fielding Bible?
I still don't understand. He has no walks, and I assume he has no HBPs, so his OBP should be the same as his batting average, I would have...
Time to trade him.
