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Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Oct 29, 2012 20:23:59 GMT -5
I mean, Billy's right that the Tigers were heavily favored by the talking heads, but yeah, the Giants were the better team, or at least the more consistent. A contact hitting team with hot pitching was basically the worst match up possible for Detroit.
Not for nothing, but if there had been anything like the celebration San Fran had in Detroit, people would have shit themselves
I mean, Billy's right that the Tigers were heavily favored by the talking heads, but yeah, the Giants were the better team, or at least the more consistent.
C'mon Horn. The Giants were significantly better than the Tigers in hitting (for power and average), pitching (starting and relief), fielding, base running, and coaching. I think you can acknowledge that the Giants were the better team [/u][/size]in this WS.
I mean, Billy's right that the Tigers were heavily favored by the talking heads, but yeah, the Giants were the better team, or at least the more consistent.
C'mon Horn. The Giants were significantly better than the Tigers in hitting (for power and average), pitching (starting and relief), fielding, base running, and coaching. I think you can acknowledge that the Giants were the better team
[/u][/size]in this WS.[/quote]
I don't see how I didn't say that. The Tigers could have easily gotten hot and walked away with it, but average play or below average (which is what they showed up with) wasn't going to do it.
Post by Alberto Balsalm on Oct 31, 2012 11:02:19 GMT -5
Gold Glove Awards are such a joke. Rollins, McCutchen and CarGo winning one are laughable. Adam Jones winning one over Trout is so bad it isn't even funny anymore, it's just criminal. And then there's the fact that Derek Jeter somehow stole 5 of them
Trout has the greatest rookie season of all-time and all he's gonna walk away with is a ROY because Adam Jones hit well on a team with a good story (while being statistically one of the worst defensive CFs in the AL) and that earns him a Gold Glove and because Miguel Cabrera won a Triple Crown and people think that equates to an automatic MVP... for shame
Post by Alberto Balsalm on Nov 2, 2012 19:20:59 GMT -5
Haren to Cubs for Marmol.
Great deal for the Cubbies. Haren has A LOT of question marks, he's 32 coming off lower back injuries and the worst year of his career. Wasn't just last year and the injuries either, velocity, k-rate and swinging strike % have all been declining for the last 4 seasons. Been pitching to more contact and throwing less strikes for 4 seasons in the making as well. Reminds me of Jon Lester's peripherals going into last season so I thought whichever team would end up with him would end up feeling like they overpaid.
But Marmol is awful which makes this is a very low risk high reward deal. Even if Haren is bad they didn't lose much. If he is good they get quality production out of him until July when they flip him for prospects.
Post by billypilgrim on Nov 9, 2012 16:07:10 GMT -5
Interesting tweet from one of the Freakonomics guys about the likelihood of the "best" team winning the World Series. The writer admits to there being a sour grapes aspect to his analysis. The tweet is at bit.ly/YXMCff.
Rookie of the year, manager of the year, Cy Young runner up and Strasburg at full strength - 90 days til pitchers and catchers report. Dislike away, RDK, I still love you.
Post by Alberto Balsalm on Nov 14, 2012 11:27:26 GMT -5
Davey and Melvin got Manager of the Year. Thought it might go to Showalter in the AL but Melvin is a good choice too. If there was any year for co-winners this would be it though, they both did a fantastic job.
Who ya'll got in the Cy Young tonight? Verlander and Kershaw should win 'em, I have a feeling Dickey will get it in the NL because of his 'story' though
I'm in class right now and my laptop just died so I have to wait til I get home to prove Flanz wrong but this is exactly how I was going to start my post. LOLwinz, come on Flanz.
Sorry guys, I guess the fact that Dickey won 19 games on a putrid team with the worst bullpen in baseball means nothing, seeing how he went the distance 5 times.
I don't think record decides anything, but you don't disregard it entirely.
Alberto, save me your sabermetrics nonsense, I know what you're going to say. Dickey deserves it by what he did on the field, plain and simple.
Sorry guys, I guess the fact that Dickey won 19 games on a putrid team with the worst bullpen in baseball means nothing, seeing how he went the distance 5 times.
I don't think record decides anything, but you don't disregard it entirely.
Alberto, save me your sabermetrics nonsense, I know what you're going to say. Dickey deserves it by what he did on the field, plain and simple.
5 CGs is a very meaningful statistic. More so than Ws.
Generaly I'm anti-Alberto's "there's only one person deserving of anything" ideology
Post by Longtime and Frequent Poster on Nov 14, 2012 12:23:36 GMT -5
You don't need sabermetrics to dispute it.
The Mets scored 4.61 runs per Dickey start. The Dodgers scored 3.94 runs per Kershaw’s start. In fact, the "putrid" Mets scored more runs than the Dodgers on the whole. As to your 5 complete games point, Dickey had 6 more innings total than Kershaw. I think it’s safe to say that’s pretty negligible when they both threw ~230 innings.