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Enron said:
Mariners fans LOVE them some sabermetrics.



And makes him just another 1B. Mauer's value comes from his bat at Catcher!
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For a long time it was the only thing we had to hold on to :(

Now we have shiny things like Felix, Pineda, Smoak and Ackley!
 
The hell.

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All-Star Selections:
American League:
1B - Gonzalez, Adrian
2B - Cano, Robinson
SS - Cabrera, Asdrubal
3B - Beltre, Adrian
C - Avila, Alex
DH - Ortiz, David
OF - Bautista, Jose
OF - Cruz, Nelson
OF - Granderson, Curtis
Write-in - N/A

National League:
1B - Fielder, Prince
2B - Weeks, Rickie
SS - Reyes, Jose
3B - Ramirez, Aramis
C - McCann, Brian
OF - Beltran, Carlos
OF - Braun, Ryan
OF - Kemp, Matt
Write-in - N/A


Mets lineup:
Jose Reyes – SS
Willie Harris – DH
Carlos Beltran – RF
Daniel Murphy – 3B
Angel Pagan – CF
Jason Bay – LF
Lucas Duda – 1B
Justin Turner – 2B
Josh Thole – C

R.A. Dickey – RHP

Tonight is Reyes’ 1000th career game, BTW. And Willie Harris is STILL the DH, shut my mouth.
 
clemenx said:
Have the Padres ever had a good 1st rounder?
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Well, there was Dave Winfield.
Two on the team now are Stauffer and Luebke, but there's been a serious dry spell since... how far you wanna go back? Derek Lee? The rest have come up fast but burned out quick; Sean Burroughs, Khalil Greene, Ben Davis.

The Frankman said:
Matt Latos? I mean some of this pitching has to have come from round 1.
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Mat (one t
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The Frankman said:
All-Star Selections:
American League:
1B - Gonzalez, Adrian
2B - Cano, Robinson
SS - Cabrera, Asdrubal
3B - Beltre, Adrian
C - Avila, Alex
DH - Ortiz, David
OF - Bautista, Jose
OF - Cruz, Nelson
OF - Granderson, Curtis
Write-in - N/A

National League:
1B - Fielder, Prince
2B - Weeks, Rickie
SS - Reyes, Jose
3B - Ramirez, Aramis
C - McCann, Brian
OF - Beltran, Carlos
OF - Braun, Ryan
OF - Kemp, Matt
Write-in - N/A


Mets lineup:
Jose Reyes – SS
Willie Harris – DH
Carlos Beltran – RF
Daniel Murphy – 3B
Angel Pagan – CF
Jason Bay – LF
Lucas Duda – 1B
Justin Turner – 2B
Josh Thole – C

R.A. Dickey – RHP

Tonight is Reyes’ 1000th career game, BTW. And Willie Harris is STILL the DH, shut my mouth.
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U serious Weeks? I think Freddy Sanchez or Brandon Phillips got better than that. Or even Utley
 
sf2fanatic said:
U serious Weeks? I think Freddy Sanchez or Brandon Phillips got better than that. Or even Utley
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From what I saw Weeks had better numbers ... waitaminute Sanchez? FREDDY SANCHEZ? Are you serious?

and gtfo here with Utley. Dude missed over 2 months, don't be part of the problem.
 
The Frankman said:
From what I saw Weeks had better numbers ... waitaminute Sanchez? FREDDY SANCHEZ? Are you serious?

and gtfo here with Utley. Dude missed over 2 months, don't be part of the problem.
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Ok My bad...I guess I havent paid enough attention at the position..Whats killing Weeks is his RBI'S and K's.. Otherwise Im impressed. Thx for making me look at the Stats
 
sf2fanatic said:
Ok My bad...I guess I havent paid enough attention at the position..Whats killing Weeks is his RBI'S and K's.. Otherwise Im impressed. Thx for making me look at the Stats
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Or it helps him, since he bats leadoff almost exclusively.
 
sf2fanatic said:
Ok My bad...I guess I havent paid enough attention at the position..Whats killing Weeks is his RBI'S and K's.. Otherwise Im impressed. Thx for making me look at the Stats
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Weeks is the best NL 2B by quite a bit by WAR, with Espinosa second by a half win and Phillips another half-win or so behind him. Frankman's actual troll was including fucking Carlos Beltran over McCutchen.
 
Reyes getting a basehit every time is getting boring.
Sharp said:
Weeks is the best NL 2B by quite a bit by WAR, with Espinosa second by a half win and Phillips another half-win or so behind him. Frankman's actual troll was including fucking Carlos Beltran over McCutchen.
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It's called after two years the dude deserves that spot. I don't troll.
 
Posted yet?

NY Times - Hitters With Blue Eyes Are Wary About Glare:

ARLINGTON, Tex. — In a 1956 recording, Chuck Berry sang: “Round the third, he was headed for home. It was a brown-eyed handsome man.”

Based on recent medical information relayed to the Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton, Berry may have been onto something more than just a catchy phrase. Did that brown-eyed handsome man in the song have an advantage over blue-eyed colleagues, an edge that got him on base in the first place, at least in day games?

Hamilton and Jason Bay, the Mets’ left fielder, would probably concur.

Hamilton was recently informed by the Rangers’ medical staff that because of his blue eyes, he has more difficulty filtering out glare than players with darker irises, and that could explain the disparity in his offensive production from day games to night games.

As one of the few blue-eyed members of the Mets, Bay can identify with Hamilton.

“I don’t know the exact correlation,” Bay said, “but I do know that if you have blue eyes you are more susceptible to brightness or whatever. I know that, and I do have very blue eyes.”

Most hitters have more difficulty seeing the ball during the day, but for Hamilton the numbers are radically different.

Over his career, he has hit almost 100 points lower during the day (.334 at night and .240 during the day). This season the disparity is even more pronounced. He went into Friday’s game against the Mets batting .376 in night games and .122 during the day.

Bay has hit .279 during night games and .268 during the day over his career, only a marginal difference. Bay said he was constantly squinting during the day, even on overcast days with a drizzle.

But after modifying his eyewear this year, he is hitting much better during day games (.286 compared with .206 at night). Before Friday night’s game between the Mets and the Rangers, Bay reached into his locker and pulled out a 24-inch black case containing an array of sleek sunglasses. There were light ones for cloudy days, medium ones for lightly overcast days, and dark ones for, as he put it, staring straight into the sun.

“I take my sunglasses very seriously,” he said.

There were also slots for two other pairs specifically designed for any kind of day that might fit in among the others.

“This is the first year I’ve worn sunglasses in every day game,” Bay said. “I was kind of worried about wearing them in years past because the only guys using sunglasses at the plate were perceived as the cool guys, the hot dogs, and I was desperately trying to avoid that. That was the reason that kept me away from it. But then I’ve seen more and more guys doing it.”

Some players don’t like to wear sunglasses at the plate because the nose piece can obstruct the vision of the back eye.

Hamilton was given red-tinted contacts that are supposed to cut down on glare, and he may use them in Saturday’s afternoon game against the Mets. Bay, too, wore orange-tinted lenses for a while, but he said they made his eyes so orange that it would unnerve his teammates.

“They would have such a strong reaction,” Bay said. “They’d see me and say, ‘Whoa!’ Plus, they irritated my eyes. So I decided to just go with the sunglasses.”

Justin Turner has a shock of orange hair, but his eyes vary in color — sometimes brown, sometimes beige or even green.

He said there was no set pattern for when they change color, but they do. Turner’s statistics reflect the major league trend, with his batting average under the lights superior to his average under the sun (.259 to .206).

But he also said that in the minor leagues, he always hit better during day games, for a simple reason.

“The lighting in minor league parks stinks,” he said.

But even some of the brown-eyed Mets, like Carlos Beltran, said the sun was a constant issue.

“I always feel I have to concentrate harder during the day to track the ball,” he said. “This is the first I’ve heard that it has to do with the color of the eyes. I mean, it’s tough for everyone. But I guess the doctors do the studies and you have to believe what they say.”

Beltran doesn’t wear sunglasses at the plate because he says they make things too dark.

“But if I don’t have them, it’s too bright,” he said. “So it’s tough, especially in places like Atlanta. It always seemed when we played a day game in Atlanta, we had to face John Smoltz. Now, that really makes it tough to hit.”
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Fangraphs just did a study on the blue eyes thing and concluded that Hambone was full of shit.
The Frankman said:
Reyes getting a basehit every time is getting boring.

It's called after two years the dude deserves that spot. I don't troll.
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There are a half-dozen other guys you didn't vote for that deserve it more than Beltran this year. It's not like Beltran's never been in the ASG anyway.
 
old. Hamilton stats in Saturday with red contracts:

1st 3 times up: Struck out.
*got pissed, took them out*
4th time up: Struck out.
Fangraphs just did a study on the blue eyes thing and concluded that Hambone was full of shit.
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Gee, why don't you just criticizing him for faking an injury also? Unless you're the athlete, you don't know what the fuck he's experiencing.
 
Maybe he has a hard time in daylight because of his eye color, but it's not generally true that major leaguers with blue eyes hit worse during the daytime than at night, whether or not they wear sunglasses or colored contacts. So it's not just because his eyes are blue.
 
I would just like to see a more scientific approach done by a non-baseball entity. This is not a new thing, stuff like this was said by a few players 15-20 years ago.

EDIT: Holy shit Darling said Duda can't see the ball. What is it with these shadows in Comerica?
 
The Frankman said:
I would just like to see a more scientific approach done by a non-baseball entity. This is not a new thing, stuff like this was said by a few players 15-20 years ago.
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I remember somebody saying that Buck Showalter would never draft sumbody with blue eyes.
 
The Frankman said:
I would just like to see a more scientific approach done by a non-baseball entity. This is not a new thing, stuff like this was said by a few players 15-20 years ago.
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If you were a blue-eyed player and couldn't hit for shit during the daytime and your doctor told you blue-eyed people often had trouble adjusting to glare, you'd complain too. And you'd be missing the many blue-eyed players that were doing just fine in the daylight, sometimes even better than they did at night. As the Fangraphs article points out, major league baseball is self-selecting; if someone seriously had a ton of trouble seeing the ball in the daylight he'd be weeded out long before he got to the minors since practically all amateur baseball is played during the day.
 
Dmncnby2k9 said:
I remember somebody saying that Buck Showalter would never draft sumbody with blue eyes.
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I've been to Camden Yards, and whether it's because the Stadium seems to be below street level or whatever... the sun fields are horrible.
Sharp said:
If you were a blue-eyed player and couldn't hit for shit during the daytime and your doctor told you blue-eyed people often had trouble adjusting to glare, you'd complain too. And you'd be missing the many blue-eyed players that were doing just fine in the daylight, sometimes even better than they did at night. As the Fangraphs article points out, major league baseball is self-selecting; if someone seriously had a ton of trouble seeing the ball in the daylight he'd be weeded out long before he got to the minors since practically all amateur baseball is played during the day.
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but this is a star player who can't hit in the day. It's hard to differentiate that from players who can't hit at all anyway, plus keep in mind most college/high school games are day games (aluminum bats WOOOOO!). I'm saying I don't think people would've weeded shit out at all, ESPECIALLY in the 80's/90's ... ""shoulder hurts? Rub some dirt on it".
 
Anyone know any bootleg radio streams? The wireless I'm stealing isn't good enough for bootleg video (and I don't want to order mlb.tv on my Canadian CC and get screwed on currency conversions).
 
The Frankman said:
I've been to Camden Yards, and whether it's because the Stadium seems to be below street level or whatever... the sun fields are horrible.

but this is a star player who can't hit in the day. It's hard to differentiate that from players who can't hit at all anyway, plus keep in mind most college/high school games are day games (aluminum bats WOOOOO!). I'm saying I don't think people would've weeded shit out at all, ESPECIALLY in the 80's/90's ... ""shoulder hurts? Rub some dirt on it".
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That's my point. Hambone had great, borderline ridiculous stats in high school, dude was the first overall pick. So if his eye color resulted in that severe a split between his day/night games I find it hard to believe he could've put up the stats he did.

Also I don't know how Buck is choosing draft picks since he's not the GM but that's neither here nor there.
 
It only took 2 innings for Jose Reyes to get his 40th multi-hit game of the season. He's played 78...

This is absolutely RIDICULOUS. And he just stole 2nd too.
That's my point. Hambone had great, borderline ridiculous stats in high school, dude was the first overall pick. So if his eye color resulted in that severe a split between his day/night games I find it hard to believe he could've put up the stats he did.

Also I don't know how Buck is choosing draft picks since he's not the GM but that's neither here nor there.
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I highlighted aluminum bats (MUCH more margin for error), plus if you read his beginnings he seemed to be a man among boys.
 
The Frankman said:
It only took 2 innings for Jose Reyes to get his 40th multi-hit game of the season. He's played 78...

This is absolutely RIDICULOUS. And he just stole 2nd too.

I highlighted aluminum bats (MUCH more margin for error), plus if you read his beginnings he seemed to be a man among boys.
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He won't be a Met much longer.
 
... I knew the minute you said MLB PowerPros. >>> MLB: The Show you were bitchmade. But this is a new low, even for you.

Mets are not trading Reyes unless they get a blowaway offer.
 
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