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  1. Dr Manhattan

    Winter Meetings 2018: Rumors and Speculation

    feel free to point out if its a stupid question, but are there scenarios where the MFYs can still make a play for Harper next year? I'd always assumed they would be splashing out to get him, but could they have Stanton, Judge, Harper (and Machado?) without seriously messing up their finances for...
  2. Dr Manhattan

    Giancarlo Stanton Traded To Yankees

    yeah I get that they chose 117 to pick out those guys, but those guys are also well ahead if you used 115. 117 was such a weirdly specific number i wondered if it was somehow related to an expected flyball distance that had a specifically good "clear the fences" profile around MLB parks I would...
  3. Dr Manhattan

    Giancarlo Stanton Traded To Yankees

    is there some significance to 117mph compared to 115mph for example? (I mean has someone plotted this over ballparks and shown a significant jump in production due to fence placements?) or is this just a variant on the multiple end point type cherrypicking?
  4. Dr Manhattan

    Going to LAAA in 2018 - Shohei Ohtani

    Its sad that I have to call out this post as being particularly well made, as this should be the kind of obvious default, but well done, I wholeheartly agree with everything you wrote here.
  5. Dr Manhattan

    Bill James' War on WAR

    I'd be surprised if it wasnt true in baseball but obviously need some data to back this up. A similar study was done IIRC in cricket. This does not mean that the best hitters don't have the ability to do better against elite pitchers, it was more that the best hitters have statistics that show a...
  6. Dr Manhattan

    Bill James' War on WAR

    But for example in football, statistics show that the good teams actually DO beat up on the bad teams, and that blowouts are indicative of something positive, I've always wondered whether the same is true in baseball. "Piling on" the poorer opponents you face is possibly something that elite...
  7. Dr Manhattan

    Bill James' War on WAR

    Can someone explain in layman terms why the batters contributions have to be scaled to the teams wins? I mean if Judge and Altuve do exactly the same thing in each and every plate appearance, but the Yankees closer blows a bunch of saves and the Astros dont, but everything else pitching and...
  8. Dr Manhattan

    World Series Game 6: Which Bullpen Blows It Tonight?

    As a UK based Sox fan (of very many years) it still blows my mind that baseball isn't your #1 sport. Especially the NFL just gets more boring and nonsensical in many different ways (on and off the field). In a nutshell, whats the primary reason for this? baseball season being too long/too many...
  9. Dr Manhattan

    World Series Game 5: It's a Best of Three

    Its amazing how entertaining it is just reading the game thread here and wondering how many people hit the sack early and bailed
  10. Dr Manhattan

    Alex Cora named Red Sox manager

    How does this work in practice, I'm struggling to understand how there can have been dialogue when the guy is actively involved in a team still involved in the playoffs. Isn't he kind of busy with that?
  11. Dr Manhattan

    Are The Yankees Really This Good?

    This! its like we are living in 2003 all over again. Screw the Yankees oh, and happy YED
  12. Dr Manhattan

    Are The Yankees Really This Good?

    Yeah, I think the question mark was related to those facts being "worse" from the point of view of a Sox fan. Theres nothing "better" for us about the MFYs improving. But maybe P91 is an embedded Yankee
  13. Dr Manhattan

    NBC Sports: MLB considering expansion, radical realignment...

    I would imagine much more likely it would be playing most games in your division and then a few games against one other division rotating (like the NFL does with their inter division matchups), or even a (horror) setup playing most games in division and a series against each other division. It...
  14. Dr Manhattan

    Following Former Red Sox 2017

    ha, that was strangely prescient of you, considering tonights outcome in L.A
  15. Dr Manhattan

    The Epitaph on the 2017 Season

    Does anyone have any solid evidence to back up why though? I mean, his velocity wasn't really down in the playoffs IIRC, or did I miss that? There was an interesting point by Dempster on MLB.com that in the Houston series his knee lift at the start of his delivery was noticeably different on the...
  16. Dr Manhattan

    I like big bats and I cannot lie: Acquiring a hitter

    Didn't someone once do a statistical analysis evaluating the difference between a team of 9 identical players with X WAR compared to a team with 3 above average, 3 average and 3 below average , or something like that. I'm not familiar enough with how those simulations are calculated to have a...
  17. Dr Manhattan

    The Epitaph on the 2017 Season

    This is a VERY interesting point and one which cuts to the crux of what a "manager" is. These guys are multi million dollar athletes with big egos and living in a bubble surrounded by a lot of "yes" people. At the same time, they are the guys with the talent to get it done on the field. Now you...
  18. Dr Manhattan

    What would you sign up for right now?

    I dont know what the underlying point of the question is, it's either an obvious finger to point at "hey we have it really good" (which should be obvious to anyone being rational), or otherwise what? I'm not being snarky I just don't see the point being made. in the hypothetical universe...
  19. Dr Manhattan

    Farrell out

    I've already filed it away as a bad memory, but overthrowing per se doesnt necessarily equate to more swings and misses does it? If you end up throwing way over or out of the zone, maybe its just lots easier to lay off pitches and just wait for the times hes forced to groove one. Indeed, wasnt...
  20. Dr Manhattan

    Farrell out

    The problem for me is that I don't see why those variables define a manager, at all. Or at least be the biggest relevant factor, ahead of man managing, motivation, resting patterns, general boring day to day "looking after 25 overgrown millionaire kids" type stuff. It could be lazy get out...