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10-10-2018, 11:17 AM | #4846 |
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On this day in 1980 ... my fondest sports memory.
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10-10-2018, 11:50 AM | #4847 |
The Insider
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The ALCS this year will feature two 100 win teams for the first time since 1977 with the Royals/Yankees.
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10-10-2018, 11:53 AM | #4848 |
"You like to drink?"
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10-10-2018, 11:57 AM | #4849 | |
In Search of a Life
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10-10-2018, 12:07 PM | #4850 |
Rabbi Goldmann
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I guessed 1980 was our best team. So I looked up the FG all time data and they have us 2/50 Royals teams by WAR. Interestingly we only have 1 team ever with a WAR over 90.5 wins. That seems awfully low.
That team had a WAR of 98 wins. We have record of 3842-4119. Our WAR, or expected wins is extremely close at 3825. Our good teams shouldn't have won as often as they did and our bad ones prob not as bad as their record (we win 58 this year but WAR was 66. Shitty pen!) |
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10-10-2018, 12:50 PM | #4851 |
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I think that is a pretty common mistake with WAR. I think it under values great players and over values average ones. I think Mike Trout is more than a WAR of 10. We had a combined war of around 2.2 in CF this year. I think we win more than 66 games if he is our starting centerfielder. It changes how teams pitch to the guy in front of him and when he gets on base it changes how those guys are pitched to.
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10-10-2018, 03:45 PM | #4852 |
Rabbi Goldmann
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Maybe, but all time the fWAR explains 99.6% of our actual wins. Incredible how tight that is. WAR is a mathematic certainty, you can fool it here or there I guess.
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10-10-2018, 06:36 PM | #4853 | |
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10-11-2018, 04:47 PM | #4854 |
Black Bob's daddy
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https://www.mlb.com/royals/news/pros...ls/c-297588020
Some news on Kyle Zimmer. I wouldn't get my hopes up, but at least it's something relatively positive during a slow period. |
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10-11-2018, 05:26 PM | #4855 | |
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10-11-2018, 06:10 PM | #4856 | |
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10-12-2018, 10:49 PM | #4857 |
In Search of a Life
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When I saw the score went from 6-1 to 6-5 late - I KNEW Soria had to be involved. Dude just has a knack for giving up the huge runs the last few years. I bet he got to 0-2 on a few batters too before giving up hits.
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10-12-2018, 11:25 PM | #4858 | |
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10-13-2018, 07:19 AM | #4859 |
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He’s definitely not tough. Some guys’ bodies are not designed to hold up to the rigors of throwing as hard as a major leaguer does. I think it’s less him being weak and more his body just failing. Maybe the driveline thing will go all fix things. It’s a shame. He was a Verlander clone before the injury (plus plus FB, plus plus curve, control, plus slider) |
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10-13-2018, 07:44 AM | #4860 | |
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