Tiger337

Three of my favorite people ever.

There were a lot of complaints about how he handled the bullpen that year, so they might have won a few more with another manager. On the other hand, they had a poor bullpen. Maybe Fetter could have helped back then.

They won 90 games and made the playoffs in 2014 and lost in the first round. That happens all the time to good teams. Sure, they could have won a few more games during the regular season with another manager, but they still might have lost in the playoffs. After that, they lost Scherzer which was what truly marked the beginning of their fall. Cabrera and Martinez got hurt in 2015 and Sanchez sucked and they really didn't have a great team. Then they started shedding pieces.

How did Ausmus break down the successful team? He wasn't a good manager, but he can only work with what he was given. It was Avila who provided the players.

The most Trump thing ever:

NICE FIRSTPOST I THINK HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GONE LAST YEAR AND ILLITCH NEEDS TO SPEND SOME MONEY OR SELL THE TEAM!!! ALSO FIRE HARVEY BAYEZ HE SUCKS!!!

I have arm fatigue too and I'm still working! from too much typing.

Who is winning pick the stick?

I haven't noticed loss in functionality for I what use it for, but I noticed the increased cost. They all get that way eventually. I don't like the increased cost, but I think I use it enough to justify it for myself.

He is not the type of player I used to liked because would have been overrated in the past. However, I like what he is doing now (even before he had this remarkable season). There is not enough variety in the game now. Everybody ewants to be an all or nothing slugger now and a lot of players aren't good at it.

His process stats make me believe his results will get better, but it's still not a guarantee. I also can't say with confidence how much better.

It most likely was. As sophomoric as it is, I actually think it's a little too sophisticated for Trump. I don't think the name Pocahontas would be something he'd come up with on his own.

Who is giving up on him? I like him. I am really just generalizing about the use of process stats.

looking at his spray chart on FanGraphs, he hits fly balls to all fields and line drives most frequently to left field. Most of line drives seems to be going for singles. He seems to maing a lot of outs on fly balls, but that's just eye balling it. I don't know if he makes too many outs on fly balls. The only thing I can see which he needs to change is he's not hitting enough balls for home run distance.

If it's just one game, then yes I'll totally go by process. The larger the sample size gets, the more results matter.

Process data is a little more predictive than results data, but you need to get the results at some point and the longer you go without getting them, the less weight you can put on the process data.

I don't know why she did it either, but It's been way overblown. She was already a very qualified professor with lots of publications before she even checked off the Native American box. I don't know what the benefit of doing it was.

When people keep pointing to the same mistake year after year, you may be doing something right.

They are still last in the majors in runs scored per game, but I suppose 3.58 RPG is better than 3.44 RPG (2022).

Yes, there is a lot of overreacting to small samples - both hot streaks and cold streaks. I think a lot of it is circular. Does a batter have a high BABIP during a hot streak because they were lucky or because they were consciously or sub-consciously doing something different during that period? Does their BABIP retuirn to normalcy because of regression to the mean or because opponents made an adjustment?

He probably can, but I think that is true of most fringe players. One famous example was Rusty Kuntz in '84.

I agree. However, I think his vile people smarts is an evidence of intelligence. He's just too lazy to have ever developed it.

Kelly never hit though.

He's kind of old to be developing into a regular contributor. Id say it's small sample size.

Som Koch is a RINO now too.