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  1. Longgone
    If you think he's going to add big ticket free agents, I think you'll be disappointed. He said he was going to focus on adding young talent, and I believe that's what he will do.
  2. Longgone
    Not sure why you are presenting low fly ball rate and low launch angle as positive traits. Yes, Tork's low hr total is statistically fluky given his baseline stats, but i think that's all it is, a fluke, and it will normalize given time.
  3. Longgone
    That's an obscure way to try to justify a 100 point differential in babip, it's still based on a small sample too heavily influenced by chance. Again, there is not enough data yet to be casting these types of conclusions.
  4. Longgone
    You're picking nits, now.
  5. Longgone
    It's mostly luck
  6. Longgone
    Barrels, hard hit rate, exit velo, walks, k's. It's very possible to envision a scenario where Greene has the .250 babip andTork a .355, with exactly the same underlying data, and then everyone would be bad mouthing Greene and be okay with Tork.
  7. Longgone
    So we're down to this. Pitiful.
  8. Longgone
    Those are both metrics based on results, which, in the short term is highly affected by chance. It will take a lot more data for these to normalize.
  9. Longgone
    It's mostly luck, Greene will likely have a higher career babip than tork, but maybe 10 points higher, not 100. The overall point is that these samples are just too small to make any kind of valid judgements, and the casual observer just looks at batting average and is down on Tork and okay with Greene, when the actuality is they have been about equally effective by any measure not affected by chance.
  10. Longgone
    Other than batting average Tork and Riley Greene's stats are eerily similar, but no one is screaming about Greene being a disappointment. Greene has a BABIP of .355, Tork .250.
  11. Longgone
    Again, it's too soon to be writing anyone off.
  12. Longgone
    You cant project much about Baddoo based on his limited stats this year. All we really know is that he has ability, is young and inexperienced for his age and has struggled a bit. If you wrote everyone off after a period of struggle, you'd have no one left.
  13. Longgone
    Yes, the players that have long term success in the majors are not those who never fail, everyone goes through periods of failure and poor performance. Players who sustain success have the ability to make constant competitive adjustments, and the mental capacity to overcome adversity, two qualities that don't readily show up statistically.
  14. Longgone
    Graham is more likely to stick in the middle infield than anyone else on this list, and he is a good fit at ss.
  15. Longgone
    Hinch was an attraction for Harris to come to Detroit, not a liability.
  16. Longgone
    Win
  17. Longgone
    He has greatly reduced his strikeout rate this year, to 17%, despite the promotion.
  18. Longgone
    We don't know how Mize and Torkelson are going to turn out. Making assumptions based on the initial adjustments to mlb is pointless.
  19. Longgone
    Except this isn't how it works, the board is long done by the time they are in the draft room, the only issue left is signability.
  20. Longgone
    I have no idea what you are referring to as "gross rotation" of the shoulder, in the case of a slider, the arm action for a fastball and slider are identical, until the very end of the process, when the hand and fingers change position.
  21. Longgone
    There's also the misconception that you need to severely pronate the arm to create spin, whereas it's more putting the hand and fingers in position to allow the ball the spin out of the hand.
  22. Longgone
    Counting stats in small samples really dont mean much. His K rate is still atrocious, so that's not promising.
  23. Longgone
    Grossman basically said he was grateful for the help he got from his new employers, an expected thing to say, and Hinch basically said the Tigers need to get better at things, also a bland, obvious statement, no reason to read so much into them.
  24. Longgone
    Ahh, okay
  25. Longgone
    Flores is #3 on Pipeline.
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