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but Riley's swing and miss is up ~20% from his career avg, so maybe he doesn't need to be so streaky.

All pitchers today are ticking time bombs, DeGrom takes it to another level. He may help a team win a WS, he may blow out his arm for the 4th and final time tomorrow.

It was very amusing that ESPN did something like 5,000 words recently on the Mets now being a 1st class org and how both NY teams were now dominant in their leagues, just in time for both to fall out of 1st place....🤣

The NFL cap is hard, and getting under the cap is the reason for a lot of trades in the first place - there are no exemptions to keep your own players, so for those teams, taking salary back is the last thing they want to do as it defeats the objective of the trade. Also, since there are 6 rounds in an NFL draft and a decent GM will get good players out of 3,4 or even 5, you get more trades for just picks with no player (or salary) on the other side at all.

I think it actually started at MLive.

If vis is really bad (fog level) and I've slowed and I think the guy coming up behind me could clobber me, OK. Otherwise if you are moving with traffic I say keep them off. In A^2 the bus drivers have taken to driving their buses with their flashers on - just stupidity. You know I just might like to know which the hell way you are taking your 55ft barge at the next corner or when you are across from me at an intersection.....Do you think I can't see your BUS!

Reese at least has already done pretty will under playoff pressure. Two starts last fall - 9 IP, 2ER 8K. ERA 2.00. No decisions. They lost both games after Reese had left the mound.

Time for Riley to get his **** back together. He's on a 2/27 with 16K downward spiral.

and such a jerk. Even if he had no idea that English was the language of Liberia, It's tasteless and condescending to make that kind of comment regardless. He will always be trailer trash under the silk suit.

I actually first got it from Romad, but it's been a favorite of mine ever since.

During Harris' booth visit yesterday he was pretty emphatic that they believe in young players accumulating PAs. They believe depth of MiLB experience equates to less unproductive time when guys are eventually called up. So their basic approach is that they aren't even trying to move guys at the max rate they can or could.

The thing with Zep is that they were so much more than the sum of their parts that there isn't really any rational explanation for how they were what they were.

Riley is not in a good place recently. He's hit a couple of HRs but otherwise is hitting about a buck fifty for July

Mandy-Rice-Davies; who once famously said "Well, he would (say that), wouldn't he?"

We all love McK, but I still wouldn't play him at SS too often.

all started with the Ump squeezing Reese on two good high fastballs.

Tork was only out of position because you saw where he was so late in the rundown. He moved to close the distance. McK had all kind of time and distance to throw it, he just chose not to.

McK is fast enough he was trusting he could catch Mangam and he miscalculated.

No - Tork should have closed the distance. Mac needed to throw the ball.

Mangam was sitting on the change all the way And what is McKInstry doing there.?

Sun just came out in A^2, that should put it over COPA by game time.

that is wierd - I have no idea how that got transposed.

Maybe the tiers are simple, but the once you start in with Bird, Early Bird, Non-Bird exceptions, Mid-Level Exceptions (Non-Taxpayer, Taxpayer, and the Bi-Annual Exception, the value of expiring contracts, etc., etc. your simplicity goes right past the board like a half-court airball trey. 🧩

that's an interesting point, and I wonder if that's a general physiological thing, or just an artifact because if your hitting falls off first, you are out of the league, whereas if you lose a step but still hit you keep your job. So you might end up with an asymmetric distribution for fielding wrt hitting. And of course as guys train for strength over the years for hitting they can lose some elasticity for catching and throwing. I don't know if with modern training that's the issue it once was, but I'd guess it remains in play to some degree.

Which also means it matters how you want to use the statistics. So player X in RF ends up having the opportunity to make some plays in a given season that elevate his DRS compared to player Y, who didn't have those chances, but (for the sake of argument) we know has better tools. If you look at the stats as a measure of accomplishment - like a hitter's counting stats, then we are on solid ground - the guy made the plays and no reason not to credit that. But if you want to predict (say for team building purposes) which player is going to give you better D in the *future*, you may find yourself looking at a number that is not the best predictor. Which is in line with your point about relievers - the parallel being that looking at their secondary stats is generally more predictive of what you are going to get going forward than their cumulative stats like ERA or number of Saves in any given point.