Tiger337

Sabermetrically,the best hitter should bat second because that is the spot where you maximize the combination of run scoring and RBI opportunities. Ideally, the leadoff hitter gets on base a lot, but doesn't necessarily hit for power.

Very outspoken about BLM and social justice too.

I predict that most of the top 30 will crap out or get injured before achieving significant success in MLB. All we need is a few good ones though.

But you and Cruzer love prospects! You are high on almost all of them at some point.

I don't either. I think it's from a movie.

It sounded like more cheers than boos. If you want to hear boos, listen to Rob Manfred at the MLB draft.

The majority of people don't care that much, so peronality matters a lot. Trump's fake tough guy routine and cultivated working man accent helps him a lot with males.

That is surprising because I assumed that people that still read newspapers daily tended to be elderly and out of touch. Also wealthy! I'd probably still have newspaper subscriptions if they were not so expensive.

16-12 and not many (if anybody) are playing over their heads. They can contend and I can see them making deals geared toward this year and next year at the trade deadline if things go well.

They should all be batting second

In order for an analyst to work for me, they have to add some knowledge about the game that I don't already have. Since I have never playerd the game at an advanced level, that is certainly possible, but they rarely do that. They also have to have a good rapport with the play by play man and know when to shut up. Not many check off all those boxes.

Tigers need some instant runs.

How about they have simultaneous tv/radio broadcasts with Dickerson and Benetti? No ex-jocks.

I'd be very happy with 2023 Corbin Carroll. Not this year's version...at least not yet.

Any attention he can get benefits him. It's been that way his whole life. It's all he's got.

He can't be right either!

Saying that Biden has a 99% chance of winning would be really optimistic at this point!

Probability is not about wins and losses. It's not binary.

Not really understanding that analogy.

That is how statisticians talk. Never wrong and never right! I don't think he has the personality to be a pundit. He probably should have further developed in the field and stayed in the background rather than trying to be a pundit.

80% is not a particularly high number. If a .200 hitter comes up in the 9th inning and needs a hit to win the game, it's probably not going to happen, but there is a decent chance it will. The people who were wrong were the many who said Trump had no chance to win based on that 80%. I'm not making excuses for Silver. I think his time has passed. He was a very influential man in the field for a number of years, but isn't so relevant anymore.

They did eject Youppi.

Another red flag. 😃

And the 3000 hit, 500 hrs, 600 doubles thing was just a set of arbitrary categories and cutoffs to make him look better than players like Ted Williams and Willie Mays who were clearly superior to him.

This is a good summary. It might not matter to most fans whether advanced stats consider Cabrera to be Hank Aaron or Frank Thomas. Tigers fans might just consider him to be an all-time great and one of their boys and leave it at that. However, if you are somebody that likes to rank players throughout history and construct Hall of Fame tiers, it does matter.