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1. Benji Gil Gamesh is not being paid to be that guy Posted: September 07, 2010 at 11:25 PM (#3635530)Well, and if Infante would go away too.
I don't get it.
But I'm pretty slow sometimes. I literally just figured out ten minutes ago why "If I told you you had a nice body would you hold it against me?" is considered a cheesy pickup line. I always just kind of went with it when it would come up for whatever reason. But I didn't make the connection that we'd like the body held against us.
Sometimes I wonder about me.
Brandon Phillips has been awful the past few weeks and Votto has been the guy scoring runs versus driving them in.
Still perfectly gettable.
[ducking along with the fourth nun...]
Robinson Cano numbers.
How do you walk into ducks? They aren't exactly inconspicuous.
And bars are?
Clearly these are some hammered nuns.
From "I am so Subarued" to "That dude is totally Isuzued"
He'd pretty much have to be.
And all I can say about Colorado is Vinny Castilla came fairly close to a Triple Crown playing there. Vinny Castilla! The Sucking Vortex of Doom!
I take some pride in first giving Vinny that nickname on FanHome back in aught two. Granted, I just stole it from Prospectus (who attached it to BJ Surhoff, I think), but still.
From "I am so Subarued" to "That dude is totally Isuzued"
A couple of years back while my buddies and I were drinking we created a game where we tried to include the phrase bro into as many words as possible. So instead of Poughkeepsie it would be Brokeepsie. We thought it was hilarious at the time. Of course we were very drunk at the time as well.
No, I originally came up with it for my ex-wife's vagina. Thank you, I'll be here all night.
And a 24 year old left fielder, a 24 year old right fielder, and a 24 year old in general.
You, uh, still have her number? I could use a little sucking vortex.
That was a brotif in Vladimir Nabrokov's 'Brolita'.
And of course Beane needed to give up on CarGo, he hadn't shown he could hit MLB pitching by age 22 after all.
And he won't take a walk to save his life
And if he was still in the AL with Oakland he would be playing half his games in Oakland which has significantly lower PF in virtually all offensive categories than Petco and AT&T and the Coliseum doesn't have the benefit of Coors field to make it look more like a pitcher's park than it really is. Plus his away games would be heavy on Safeco field the #1 pitcher's park in the game and Angels Stadium.
He's drawn more walks this year than any of the A's outfielders.
Sure, but how many of them were of the lifesaving variety?
My favorite was Vinny Cash-Steala
Carlos Gonzalez: 33.21
This can be explained in 2 sentences: He has more than 200 more PAs than all but one A's outfielder. And Rajai Davis sucks. (Jack Cust has lumbered through the outfield for 15 games this year, so you could technically say that statement's not true at all.)
You have a strange sense of "fairly close." Yeah, Vinny finished in the top 10 in all 3 categories one year. He only finished 24 HR's and .044 behind the leaders.
From B-Ref, the 2008 Turner Field park factors were multi-year: Batting - 98, Pitching - 98 · one-year: Batting - 101, Pitching - 101 or just about park neutral as you can get.
Carlos Gonzales is batting in a park that yields multi-year: Batting - 109, Pitching - 109 · one-year: Batting - 113, Pitching - 112.
It isn't the Coors Field of old, but Cargo gets a much bigger advantage at home than Chipper Jones did in 08.
For fun, if you double his home stats that year: .368 BA/52 HRs/182 RBIs.
Only thing I care about with relation to carGo is he had better suck on their next road trip. I will not stand for someone getting hot in September, playing a bunch of home games in Coors, and stealing the MVP from Votto. It doesn't matter how many walks he draws, or what kind of park factor coors has. If he keeps hitting like this over the next few weeks and the Rockies sneak into the playoffs, then he'll win MVP.
It is actually much higher than that. Those are last year's PF.
right now Colorado's raw park factor is 140 (10.6 r/g in Colorado, 7.6 on the road)
(by way of comparison the Mets raw park factor is 88- 7.5 at home 8.6 on the road)
So Colorado's park adjustment factor should be around 117-118 or so (and the Mutts around 94).
I'm reasonably sure that Foreman does not update park factors during the season-
1: Either Colorado is no longer using the Humidor or it's no longer working
2: At years' end every Rockie player is going to take a 5-6 point hit to their OPS+ when Sean does park factors (Helton really is toast)
3: Ubaldo is great
4: Pelfrey and Niese are now at 102 & 104 ERA+- the Mutts have 4 SP with ERAs+ over 100- that's a park illusion- with an updated PF they're at 97 & 99
so- at eyar'
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Which really complicates the discussion we're trying to have. And may explain the screwy defensive numbers Tom has been complaining about.
no....
4.66 runs allowed at home
4.04 runs allowed on the road
a neutral split would be 4.29 at home and 4.58 on the road
It looks like Coors is back to its pre-humidor splits, if that's any consolation to Beane's fans....
Of course CarGo's road numbers in 2008 were .240/.282/.325 and this year they are .288/.310/.450- so Coor's inflation aside he has IMPROVED significantly.
If this is true it means the remaining national league parks (i.e CarGos road parks) are averaging around 98, and that non-Rockie hitters hit in road parks that average about 102. So he's hitting in much tougher road parks than any of his competitors.
So it would be ok to trade a CF with a 120 OPS+?
I posted this in the other CarGo thread...using tOPS on the team's home splits. This year bucks a trend. Are the pre-humidor splits back or is it a flukey year?
tOPS of home splits:
Year Bat Pitch-----------------
1995 127 120
1996 138 112
1997 118 108
1998 123 109
1999 126 119
2000 129 114
2001 124 111
2002 129 107
2003 121 101
2004 120 111
2005 122 101
2006 113 104
2007 115 103
2008 114 100
2009 116 105
2010 129 104
Yeah, only if you look at one-year PFs for 2010. If you look at any kind of reasonable sample, that's not at all true, at least not in comparison to Petco (AT&T hasn't been all that much of pitchers' park in recent years). Petco has clearly been the most extreme pitchers' park, and the effects are across the board.
I have retrosheet gamelogs from 2004-2009 on my computer, which I use to calculate park factors. Just based on runs/game, 33 of the 35 parks in use had PFs between 95 and 106; Coors is at 111 and Petco at 90.
If I look at hits/game or HR/game, Petco is the toughest in each, though the distance from the pack isn't as great. And if one park is the toughest for each of the components (not that I've run all the components, but those are the two biggies), then of course it's going to be toughest by far in the aggregate.
Even then, the bulk of the difference in run scoring isn't clearly park effects. The slash batting stats (which is where you'd expect the bulk of park effects to manifest themselves is only around 3-4% worse at home for the pitchers.
It's all very odd and worthy of a serious look.
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