Tiger337

I think they needed Torkelson, Green, Mize and Manning to all make significant contributions in order to be the team they were hyped to be this year. This was a long short even before the injuries. Too many fans were thinking that their May through September record last year was the baseline going into the year and that they were going to add another 10-15 wins with the free agent acquisitions and young talent. It was mostly wishful thinking.

Yes, I agree batting order doesn't mean much and I think it means less when nobody can hit anway. Swapping Grossman and Schoop right now is meaningless, although if they are both hitting having Grossman bat higher is probably slightly more beneficial.

If everyone were healthy, they could be better than .500 but given their healthy choices I agree they wouldn't go above .500.

Batting order can mean more than five runs over a season, but when none of them can hit anyway, I don't think it matters at all. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-significant-is-batting-order/#:~:text=Most sabermetric analyses of batting,order isn't very important.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sarah Sanders both won primaries, The level of ignorance in certain parts of our country is stunning.

They need some instant runs.

Nothing will ever happen. Our country made a mistake creating our gun culture and we are too far down the road to ever turn back. It's barbaric.

If the Sandy Hook shooting didn't get to you, there is something wrong with you. Given the age of the victims, this one is similar.

Hardly anything politicians say is newsworthy, because they are all full of shit.

It's so unfair!

I think it was based on body type and facial resemblance.

no.

Actually yes. That is how it works. If the Tigers play the Blue Jays 162 times, you can predict with a great deal of certainty that the Blue Jays will win more games than the Tigers. If it's a three game series, the Tigers would have a decent chance to win the series.

I am not impressed by correct predictiions unless the reasoning for the prediction was sound. Otherwise, it ws just luck. I am more impressed by someone who makes an incorrect predict based on solid reasoning. There was one guy in this forum several years ago who made a random prediction about a Tiger getting traded and everybody made fun of him because it seemed unlikely. It turned that player was traded the next day. It was pretty hilarious and this poster became a legend for the next few months. then he started making dumb predictions about everything and was always wrong and he became annoying.

Perez did that once.

If it didn't happen here, why bring it up here? Why would we care?

If he is as bad as Perez, I will acknowledge that you made a lucky guess that was poorly informed at the time you made it.

We need a folder: Random_stupid_topics_2022

I heard they might have to amputate his ear.

Is this the thread where we post stupid cat videos?

I am not for you or against you. I don't know you. I just responds to your ideas. I don't agree with most of them so far, but that doesn't mean I will always disagree.

It was you who brought it up: "Yet the sabermetric braintrust was certain I was completely clueless"

If people were saying that the Braves and Astros had no chance, then I would have said that was an uninformed opinion. If someone picked those two teams and seriously thought they knew something, I would say the same thing. Trying to project a World Series winner is a random exercise. Trying to project over a full season also involves some luck but has more certainty.

If someone sifted through stats to pick a World Series winner, then that person was not a sabermetric kind of person. The playoffs are a crap shoot. You might as well just pick a team randomly. In fact, I choose the Braves who had the worst record just to show my disdain for the post-season emphasis.

That shows how little you know.. Sabers know that the post-season is just a crap shoot and that any team can win a short series in baseball. So, they wouldn't call you clueless for that. There was probably another reason why they called you clueless. 😄