Tiger337

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.

I like Torkelson's process stats, but his job is to get results. I probably sound negative saying that, but I am actually encouraged by his hard hit rate. I just see a trend where people are starting to judge players on process stats rather than results. It reminds me of the early BABIP phase when people were using BABIP as an automatic indicator of future performance. As it turned out, there are some players where a high or low BABIP is part of their skillset. I think we will find that with statcast stats as well.

I would guess yes.

I pay for Fangraphs (to limit the ads) and Baseball Reference (in order to get stathead). That is the extent of my baseball subscriptions. I used to subscribe to Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America. Baseball Prospectus wasn't giving me much that I wasn't already getting at FG and BREF and their stats pages are an embarrassment. I used to like BA because of the hard copy magazine, but it's not as extensive as it used to be and their Tigers writer is terrible.

I see the opposite in profiles in Massachusetts where a substantial proportion of women say they won't date a Trump supporter. It is very rare instance where I see a profile speaking favorably of Trump.

I was justing saying that if a woman is single, it's not necessarily because she wants to be single. Men (and women) of all political ideologies can be mediocre. Also, being successful in some areas of life does not necessarily make someone a suitable match.