Tiger337

Good work. What I'd be most interested in is how the statcast results correlate with performance stats such as FIP in the same year and future years. Are they adding anything that is not already explained by BB%, K% and HR%?

Anybody who advertises themselves as an Alpha Male is a loser.

It was sarcasm.

The healthcare sector needs workers badly. For example, the cost of long-term care has doubled over the last six years because the supply is so much lower than the demand. And Americans won't do the home healthcare jobs.

He was happy before Avila was fired too!

You don't think voters will be drawn to Pence's charisma?

That's what I mean. I can see him doing thosethings openly. He would tell us that he was doing it and then say he was just joking or that he never really said it. His supporters would tell us that Obama did the same thing.

Not olnly would he try to steal the election, he would do it openly with the full support of the the Republican party except for a few communist RINOs.

Trump can still win if it's a large field like 2016. If it's just him versus DeSantis, the Republican can probably make sure DeSantis wins.

For a moment, I thought Luetga was the rapist from a few years back. I had him confused with Josh Lueke.

Might life got busier since my baseball analysis and writing days. I haven't even been studying the new stats as closely as I used to. Maybe a good retirement project!

All this angst over Reyes and the Castros? You gotta raise your bar. Take some chances in life!

I thought it was sad. He can't even come up with any new stuff. He is now just a parody of himself.

And new lights!

Cold feet? So, Correa now has a circulatory problem?

Players don't like him, but I think they dislike him for different reasons than the fans dislike him. For example. I think players dislike his anti-establishment rants whereas some fans are amused by that. On the other hand, fans don't like him, in part, because he is openly disrespectful of women such as when he said that he wasn't interested in having a relationship with a woman. He just wanted to hook up with them. A large percentage of the single players probably feel the same way, but they don't want to hear a teammate blabbing about it.

I'd like to see that too, but I think it's complicated. You would almost have to look at it on a game to game basis because a good pitcher might be having a bad to when a batter faces him or conversely a bad pitcher might be having a good day.

The Tigers still have a shot!

Sure, but it's only been a couple of months. You can't expect dramatic observable changes to a crap organization in that amount of time. Dombrowski took more than a full year before he started making major moves for the Tigers.

The queston I have is whether it is any more predictive than just looking at stats like HR rate or OPS against?

I think K% and BB% are probably the most predictive, but you can get those anywhere. Seeing the percentile for them is helpful. I have not seen any research indicating that the statcast stats are more predictive than FIP. I have seen studies which have show that the x stats are less predictive than FIP. I have not seen anything about the predictiveness of stats like exit velocity and spin rate, but those were not designed to be predictive. They are certainly interesting as descriptives.

There is that, but I think baseball pitcher is the position in sports where I would least worry about that stuff. Anyway, if the Tigers did sign him or trade for him (I know it's not happening) I would assume as a fan that they determined his personality was not a problem.

He's a jerk, but if he contributes to winning games he'd be tolerable. I don't deal with him personally. All I have to do is watch him pitch and look at his stats.