When is ESPN going to get creative and get past the all rise and verdict is in headlines with Judge?
When is ESPN going to get creative and get past the all rise and verdict is in headlines with Judge?
I'm not making up anything. Here are the 2 most important facts. As is his offensive numbers were as good as prior 800 ops seasons. A combination of the league being down and ops not weighting obp correctly make that true. Whether his ops was 770 or 800 doesn't matter. His wrc+ was 120. Right in line with previous years. It was a good offensive season. It also ignores how he hit after coming back from an appendectomy which was as good as he ever was a a brave.
Again. People see what they want to.
Hawk (10-19-2017)
Learn to read. I didn't look up his numbers before I made that comment. I assumed them, and I wasn't far off. My reasoning is based off everything he had done up to that point in his career. Saying he probably would have achieved that mark does nothing to discredit my point anyway. His OPS+ was 114 that year despite the injuries. He was a good hitter. But, by all means keep ignoring that and harping on the fact that he didn't quite reach that .800 OPS.
What am I not seeing because I don't want to?
I didn't say it wasn't a good offensive season.
I also never brought up the .800 OPS threshold - cyyoung31 did, and said "but the fact is he would've OPS'd north of .800 3 of his first 4 years." I pointed out that that is not a fact, which is absolutely 100% objectively true. that fact upset him mightily, and then he (and now you) both created scenarios and sliced numbers up how you wanted in order to show .800 was a guarantee! you started at a point you wanted to reach, and went backwards justifying it.
you then said..
"Heyward started out slow in 2013 and even after his appendectomy it took him awhile to get going again. From June 1st until he got hit in the face he hit 297/373/498 -871. 201 ISO which is about what you would expect from him before the injury.."
Why would I expect that from him before the injury when he had never done it before over a full season?
You're absolutely right that people see what they want to see.
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
You literally quoted the numbers in this thread. So you should learn to read what you quote.
I agree he was a good, not great, hitter. And he was good again after that, too.
I'm just not pretending I know he was destined to be a great hitter if not for getting hit in the face.
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
But, that wasn't my point was it? My point was that he was two different hitters before and after the injury. I should have made sure I was right about him hitting an .800 but I never said it was some magical threshold that made him a good hitter. The only reason I brought it up is to show consistency. And I still think that a.776 OPS surrounded by .815 OPS seasons is relatively consistent.
The proof is in the power. His power took a nosedive after that year, with an aberration in 2015 thanks to an uncharacteristically high batting average propped up by an inflated BABIP.
You seem to think we don't have any evidence for our beliefs when we clearly do.
Last edited by CyYoung31; 10-19-2017 at 12:51 PM.
I know what I see.
--another thread uselessly turning into another Heywood thread.
Coppy
your beliefs come down to faith in Heyward more than anything.
I'm sure getting hit in the face led to some decline. I'd also bet that adjustments from pitchers led to some (likely most) of the decline as well.
what is this about his inflated BABIP? He went from .335, to .260, to .319, .281, .308. 329 isn't out there given those previous numbers.
My issue is with stating things as fact that are, in fact, not fact. His numbers from '11 are somewhat in line (worse, actually) than his number post-face smash. So he could've broke a lot of ways, depending on a lot of things. And now he's here.
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
Well, my faith in him comes down to his consistency up to that point. He was a good hitter with power 3 of his first 4 years until the injury.
He was also injured in '11, and didn't even reach 400 ABs just like in '13.
Now, he very well could have just simply failed as a hitter. But, I find it convenient that this all-world talent suddenly forgot how to hit for power after getting nailed by a fastball in the jaw. We'll likely never really know, unfortunately.
Bye cubs hahahahajahAha