It's opening day and this hasn't been made yet. Where has this place gone too?
Andrew Brown 3 run homer off Strasburg in the first!!!! Let's go Mets
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It's opening day and this hasn't been made yet. Where has this place gone too?
Andrew Brown 3 run homer off Strasburg in the first!!!! Let's go Mets
Grady Sizemore is on pace for 162 homers this season
Article on baseball in Japan, where Mah-Jong is forbidden, and scouts seek pitchers' Moms' vital statistics!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/sp...-baseball.html
see...the projections were WAYYY off obviously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
A devastating opening day loss and an injury to our only good RP. The opening day optimism is already gone. Love being a Met fan.
Strasburg is on pace for 300 K's! (assuming 30 starts)
Harper is on pace for a rough year....
Ramos is incredibly unlucky....
And Aaron Barrett’s (RP) debut was monumental, here is to hoping that he doesn't come down from this high for a long time!
Ugh, Ramos. If this guy stopped breaking something every time he gets breathed on he could be real good.
Melky Cabrera looks good so far.
Article on Yahuda Molina
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/sp...&nlid=48304735
Pitchers cheat?...my sky has fallen! :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/sp...&nlid=48304735
Maybe some Member ought to resurrect this team as an SM dynasty, to rewrite a happy ending. :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/sp...=48304735&_r=0
Hey rage - can you answer where exactly the Athletics fans are? According to this, they just don't exist.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...-baseball.html
For everyone else - awesome map of baseball fans by area, based on social networking (ugh).
Interesting Map!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
The Molitor line! That is awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
Braun just smacked Segura with his bat. Hope that's not serious..
who the fu(k swings a bat into the dugout? Braun denying involvement yet? I teach against this kind of crap in t-ball...Braun hasn't learned it by now, and with multi-million dollar players at risk nobody has stopped him? Hard to believe this is the first time he's done this reckless act. ESPN lists their headline as, "Bad Timing"!?!?! I tell my 7yr old, there's some things that saying "sorry" just isn't enough for. Why isn't anyone calling this guy what he is...which is a fu(king reckless m0ron.Quote:
Originally Posted by MichelleWie
really...who the fu(k swings a bat into the dugout?
Braun's quote after the game left me speechless!Quote:
Originally Posted by dickay
WTF??!!Quote:
Braun told reporters, "I do my warm-ups every game, so I’m actually surprised something doesn’t happen like that more often."
Maybe since he's presumbaly not using performance-enchancing drugs anymore, he's using the other kind.Quote:
Originally Posted by MichelleWie
mlbtraderumors has the Mariners offseason in review up today. One question they ask is, would it have been better to spend Cano's money on multiple FAs. They could've had Garza, Santana, and Choo for the price of Cano. Wooooow.
And don't forget Rodney, geesh i already dropped him in fantasy.
I got to see baseball on TV for the first time this season...installed MLB TV in my PS3 and got the As/Rangers game as the free game of the day. Man the A's can wear down a pitcher - Darvish went to full counts on 5 of the first 8 batters...Sogard walked twice! That team is impressive, for being without Cespedes and not really having any A-level offensive threats, they get it done. Still Moneyballin'.
Yeah, the Mariners could have gotten more for their money, that's for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
I've been able to watch about half of the Tigers' games so far this season. I love that they are being more aggressive on the basepaths, and the starting pitching is strong, as usual. However the bullpen is just atrocious. How is Phil Coke even still on ANY MLB roster? The dude doesn't have anything left. And pretty much everyone not named Nathan or Alburquerque has been pretty bad, too. Unless this improves, I can see the Tigers losing close games pretty often.
I would hope the Mariners spoke with other free agents before giving Cano all that cash and they all declined. I would have honestly wanted Ellsbury or Choo instead of Cano. But if you thought Felix/Iwakuma/Walker/Paxton/5th starter was good enough, I could see why they wouldn't go after Santana or Jimenez.
loller - yanks fans boo Cano, call him a sellout
There is exactly 1 team that cannot call their departing FAs 'sellouts' with any shred of credibility
OD is officially rockie crazy
I bet he sacrificed many wild animals for this
To be fair, I'm not really sure I've ever heard a team call a guy who left them by free agency a "sellout". The teams know it's a business--it the fans who are idiots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
sorry - 'fans of the yankees' is what I meant, I guess
altho Cano sure does have a lot of bad press from actual teammates, with Mo Rivera and everyone harping on it
Victor Martinez has more more HR than K's (9 to 8). The only qualified hitters to finish with more HR than K's are George Brett in 1980 and Bonds in 1994.
Then there is Kris Davis who has struck out 39 times and walked only twice!
RIP Jose Fernandez, my key to dominance in 2 leagues. I picked up Dozier as his replacement in one league, hehe.
Blackmon hasn't really cooled off much. Neil Walker doing well. Kinsler posting a big ole FU to his former team by dominating. Lots of good storylines happening.
the fact dozier was available when fernandez went down shows that the league you are referring to is a farce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
I'll let them know we have the Dickay seal of Farce-ness (copyright)
its an 8 guy league, most are goobers, but with only 1 DL spot and roster crunches there are a lot of 80%+ owned guys that we dont have owned. Thats how it works.
It should be easy to win, but H2H throws such a monkey wrench...I get the losers on their best weeks and can never come in higher than 2nd
Wait.. Brian Dozier?? How can he replace Fernandez? I guess you mean took his roster spot.. Gotta agree with Dickay on the league being a farce. I don't give a damn if it is a 4 team league, Dozier must be owned! Time to upgrade the competition. I am surprised you would even take a player like Dozier, since you think Stanton is absolute garbage because you believe in lineup protection and think he compares to Adam Dunn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
(Last sentence was Obvious hyperbole)
I actually avoided Dozier when he was available in my other league, because my AVG was a problem and I was near the top everywhere else, so adding another .234 guy wasn't going to be a big win.
I know Dozier has been the Yahoo darling, great OBP, but only one league does OBP for me. In my leagues I usually have Kinsler or Neil Walker at 2B...and Kipnis on the DL in one league. I don't have Cano or anything but I feel like those are safer bets than Dozier. Still, since this league uses OBP and OPS as weekly H2H categories, it was silly for no one to have picked him up. I am OK with it tho!
One thing I love is people that avoided Nelson Cruz...maybe because of PEDs, maybe because of his late signing. Its worked well for me in the 2 leagues I got him in the mid rounds!
Yeah Dozier doesn't replace Jose Fernandez, but maybe I could trade one of my 2Bs for a pitcher...if people were active enough to trade in this league...
Oh and I do NOT subscribe to lineup protection, goober! I subscribe to facts about an overall poor offense (historically bad in 2013), and the fact that guys have to be on base in order for you to get RBI. My original snipe against Stanton was that he was going to have a 40-homer, 58 RBI season. That does not point to lineup protection, but rather a lack of anyone useful to get on base in front of him. They've turned it around in an unprecedented fashion this year, but if you thinkn McGehee and Dietrich are going to keep this up, please step forward...
The fact is that runs per HR is almost a random stat, as my post in the other thread proved. Some of the best offenses in baseball were near the bottom in that stat while the 2013 Marlins were ahead of several teams. No predictive value in that stat! Not to mention some of the hitters you said you liked more had worse or similar HR/RBI rates as Stanton in 2013 and played on far superior offenses. That myth has been busted.
Yeah I know I am beating a dead horse by resurrecting this argument but I love me some Giancarlo Stanton!! (And quite honestly, it's not like this forum is bustling with activity)And cannot understand your irrational hate towards him. ;)
I guess I could see Dozier not being owned in a smaller league that used AVG. Most teams only carry 1 2B and if you were happy with the 2B you had, you wouldn't pick him up. But using OBP and OPS there is no excuse not to own him.
Ok so here's a quandary for you - which guy do you take on your fantasy team:
1) Giancarlo "DON'T CALL ME MIKE" Stanton, in a lineup of 8 Nick Puntos
2) Jose Bautista in the Blue Jays lineup
3) Freddie Freeman in the Braves lineup
It isn't SOLELY RBI per HR that matters. RBIs can also come from hits, assuming you have a team that gets on base in front of you. Also, a player's Run total will depend on the batters behind him. So if Stanton is in the worlds crappiest lineup, like he was last season, while his homers and average are a function of himself, the runs and RBIs he contributes will be affected by that piss-poor lineup. Thus, judging a player as slightly less valuable because of the terrible offense around him - when your value of him relies on runs and RBIs he creates, which depends on that team - is sensible.
If you disagree with that, then you can take Stanton with his 8 Nick Puntos and see him trail just average OFers in RBIs and runs.
It's NOT just runs-per-HR. It's not just his injury propensity. Its not just his 'meh' career average. It isnt just that the ownership group is crap and will never field a decent team (except for 1-year miracles that are then sold off). Its not just the historically terrible offense around him last season - ahead AND behind, and how likely that was to repeat. But if you have an analytical mind and take ALL of that in, you simply can't see Stanton as a top of the heap OF bat. If you do, then go pickup some Cubs and Astros hitters while they are cheap. Roll all the dice with Cano as your 2B. Because somehow a players' magnificence in your mind can overcome a terrible offense around him and how it contributes to 2 of the 5 key stats you are looking for?
If Stanton ever floated down to the mid rounds where I considered it worth taking a gamble on him, I'd take him. But somehow his brand power puts him way up ahead of his actual impact on a fantasy team - very much like Bryce Harper. So with Stanton not only do you have to face the chance that his surrounding offense will cost you in two categories, you also have to pay a 'hype premium' to get him early. Those are exactly the players I avoid...again, something that has worked really well for me in the years of fantasy baseball. Just a personal preference in how I weigh players man.
Calling the rest of the Marlins lineup a bunch of Nick Puntos is a huge exaggeration though.
Yes, they're overperforming right now, but there's still a decent enough of a lineup around him.
Yelich is a decent OBP guy who gets on base for Stanton to drive in. And Saltalamacchia is an above average hitter than can drive Stanton in. Obviously Casey McGahee and Garrett Jones aren't gonna continue being useful, but even when they cool off, there's still enough pieces for Stanton to be useful.
Also, that Braves lineup isn't too hot either. It's just Freeman, Justin Upton and Gattis when he feels like homering. BJ Upton, Johnson, Simmons, Uggla are all terrible hitters that don't provide much. Heyward should eventually turn it around but who knows.
sure, total exaggeration. But if the rest of the lineup is totally irrelevant as Wie continues to opine, then it shouldn't dissuade him from going Stanton all the way.
The Braves have been pathetically sad, the Marlins have been playing way over their heads. Its been 40 games, I feel like those will both even out to something more expected. Still, Freeman gives you upside in AVG and RBI, even if his homer total isn't Stanton-level.
Most leagues are still standard 5x5..so Stanton is a guy that gives you nothing in speed, probably a slight negative in AVG looking at his career. Big positive in power...so its just a question of Runs and RBI, and if his counting stats there will be enough to make him worth a high draft position. And if there are guys that I feel are likelier to help in those categories more - or even AVG/SB more - then I don't hesitate to choose them.
Lol. I don't know what to say. C'mon man! You continually makes ridiculous arguments then constantly back track saying they are "obvious exaggerations!" Not even sure I should waste my time responding... Stanton is a beast you missed on this one! It's okay. It happens to the best of us.. No need to throw out absurd comparisons and arguments and then say they are "OBVIOUS HYPERBOLE."
Given his age, Stanton is more valuable in a keeper league, because he's still improving. Even in a non-keeper league, I think that AOL is probably a bit too down on him, but his basic point is correct--being on the Marlins is going to limit his RBIs and runs scored. And if you expect Stanton to keep up the pace he's set so far this year, you're nuts. (Projected out to 162 games, he'd have 42 HR, 162 RBIs, 108 runs scored, and 15 stolen bases with no CS. That ain't happening, except maybe for the HRs--I think 42 is a conservative estimate of what he can hit in a good year. And he's not going to keep hitting .325 either, though I do expect he'll end the year a bit above the league average.)
40/100/100 with a .270 avg and 10 SB is certainly attainable and makes him a fantasy stud. The whole argument started with AOL saying he hates Stanton because he is going to have 40hr and 58 RBI. The Marlins are much improved which is why it is useless to try and predict runs and RBI. Every year someone goes from worst to first nowadays, It's senseless to downgrade a guy for a stat that has such unpredictability.Quote:
Originally Posted by dps