I'm a baby, if the Yankees are in the WS, I completely boycott it. Will not pay attention at all.
I'm a baby, if the Yankees are in the WS, I completely boycott it. Will not pay attention at all.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
It's amazing how good teams are that build around stud position prospects.
I never realized how much the young people apparently loved heyward.
The numbers they are looking at say otherwise. He is a little below average at 3b, and very below average at SS. Correa is slightly below average at SS.
They are an excellent team with very intelligent management. I think they know what they're doing on their infield.
In fact, the 4 remaining playoff teams are probably among the 6 or so most intelligent teams in the modern game.
Last edited by Enscheff; 10-17-2017 at 07:41 PM.
Correa’s fdWAR for his career (3 years) is 6.2. Swanson, while committing 20 errors and not playing a complete year, put up 6.0 fdWAR this season. I’ve watched the astros enough to know Correa isn’t good there... bregman was a better ss at LSU than Correa is in mlb
Personally, I think they’re catering to their stud hitter
jpx7 (10-18-2017)
I don't see this series going more than 6. Cubs have too many holes.
I think xwOBA is almost perfect for pitchers because they face so many types of hitters (speedy, slow, power, slap) that everything averages out.
For hitters it seems like the delta for fly balls is due to luck and the ball parks they play in.
However, if a hitter shows consistent delta on grounders AND liners, I am inclined to chalk some of that up to a skill (or lack of skill) not captured by xwOBA. For example, slow hitters always underperform their xwOBA (mostly on grounders and liners), while guys like Inciarte (not necessarily fast) seem to regularly outperform it. I haven't found anything that correlates strongly to guys who outperform it...it's not just fast guys. I suspect it's a mixture of speed and hitting the balls to all fields.
Last edited by Enscheff; 10-17-2017 at 10:21 PM.
Cubs will be spending heavily on BP arms this offseason.
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And I assumed Heyward was OPSing .800 at the time of his injury without looking it up. And I wasn't far off. That hardly affects my overall point either way.