All the Way with JBJ - 2016

Al Zarilla

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Man, the Similarity Scores section in BBREF is very useless right now wrt Jackie:

Aaron Hicks
Neil Chrisley
Tuffy Rhodes
Ellis Burton
Jim (not Graig) Nettles
Hiram Bocachica
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4 more stiffs

Makes you want some years to go by to see what comps he'd have.
 

threecy

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The August slump continues for JBJ.

He's now hitting .167 for the month and has 33 Ks in 90 PA.

33 Ks is the largest single month total he's ever posted in the majors, and there are still a handful of games to go.
 

Sandy Leon Trotsky

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His, X's concurrent slumps are maddening. I've wondered often about JBJ as an exteme player (hot streaks and slumps) and have asked if a consistent say, .775 hitter would be preferable to one that has a stretch of say .950OPS and then stretches of say .550OPS and it ends up at the same number throughout the season (including HR's, BB's and K's). Has anyone noticed a shift in his stance? Is he banged up a little? Just exhausted?
I'd consider moving him back down all the way to the 9th spot since he seemed to really thrive there
 

AB in DC

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His, X's concurrent slumps are maddening. I've wondered often about JBJ as an exteme player (hot streaks and slumps) and have asked if a consistent say, .775 hitter would be preferable to one that has a stretch of say .950OPS and then stretches of say .550OPS and it ends up at the same number throughout the season (including HR's, BB's and K's).
Is there such a thing?
 

Sandy Leon Trotsky

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Since he's been with the Sox he's had nothing but crazy hot streaks and terrible cold streaks- I guess I'm categorizing extreme as anything above a .950 OPS and anything below .650 Arbitrary obviously.
 

AB in DC

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But what I'm asking is whether that makes him an extreme player or just someone who's had extreme performance in the past. I've never heard of anyone whose entire career was full of streakiness -- it usually settles out one way or the other.
 

AB in DC

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It's like being a "clutch player" -- which is so incredibly rare that it's basically non-existent -- rather than clutch performance over a period of time.
 

mfried

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Since he's been with the Sox he's had nothing but crazy hot streaks and terrible cold streaks- I guess I'm categorizing extreme as anything above a .950 OPS and anything below .650 Arbitrary obviously.
Against Duffy tonight we should find a way to rest JBJ. I don't want to see Brentz but this would be a slot for Castillo - despite all the problems.
 

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In your estimation, the difference between Castillo and Brentz is worth the 40 man slot and the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the luxury tax hit would kick in...for one game matchup?
 

HomeRunBaker

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His, X's concurrent slumps are maddening. I've wondered often about JBJ as an exteme player (hot streaks and slumps) and have asked if a consistent say, .775 hitter would be preferable to one that has a stretch of say .950OPS and then stretches of say .550OPS and it ends up at the same number throughout the season (including HR's, BB's and K's). Has anyone noticed a shift in his stance? Is he banged up a little? Just exhausted?
I'd consider moving him back down all the way to the 9th spot since he seemed to really thrive there
Wasn't there a study done on here maybe a decade ago showing that a "streaky" player carries greater value than a "consistent" player when the end result are identical numbers? EV maybe?

Iirc it showed that the extreme "hot" performance had a greater positive impact than a "cold" performance had on a negative impact.
 

epraz

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But what I'm asking is whether that makes him an extreme player or just someone who's had extreme performance in the past. I've never heard of anyone whose entire career was full of streakiness -- it usually settles out one way or the other.
 

Cesar Crespo

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But what I'm asking is whether that makes him an extreme player or just someone who's had extreme performance in the past. I've never heard of anyone whose entire career was full of streakiness -- it usually settles out one way or the other.
Brian Daubach. At least iirc, that was one streaky dude. It's noise though. JBJ by month has been steady minus August.