Red Sox/MLB 2018 REGULAR SEASON - The Price Is Wrong

[BiggioRainesHOF]

This would be a disaster.

Betts is a much better player than Bryce Harper, who is one of the most overrated players in sports, let alone baseball.

Oh, I think it's more of a wonderful dream.

As of right now, Mookie Betts is a much better baseball player than pretty much every mortal on the planet.

Which disqualifies Mike Trout obviously.

 

[EverettMike]

other way around.

those that understand analytics the most realize it isnt the end all be all, and that analytics can lie.

and ftr, my career is a data analyst (data mining, analysis and reporting)

Literally every MLB team would laugh at you if you came in stressing the importance of RBIs when evaluating a player. Every one of them, no hyperbole. If you came in and said, "Player X is better than Player Y because he had 12 more RBI" or said "we know Player Z is good cause he had 100 RBI" they would fire you on the spot now.

And the ONLY people who uses phrases like "analytics is the be all end all" are people who don't like them. I have never, not once, said scouts serve no purpose, nor have I ever said they should be ignored. I can't think of anyone else who has, including a guy like Keith Law.

So you're arguing with your own lazy strawman. And you're doing it so you can defend an outdated line of thinking that all of professional baseball has passed by. Maybe you're smarter than all 3o teams, it is possible, but the Astros and Cubs agree with me on the RBI thing, as well as the importance of those new fangled stats.

 

[LouJersey]

They signed Pavano and Wright when Carlos Beltran wanted to hand them a discount. The thought of that offseason turns me into Frank Costanza every time.

yes, Mets were the second choice per the norm.

 

[BiggioRainesHOF]

yes, Mets were the second choice per the norm.

You guys also got Shake Shack in your stadium, and I haven't been back to YS3 in a while, but the beer situation was like the description of Roger Dorn in Major League ("I thought you said we didn't have any high priced talent...").

I'm trying my best Lou. Now can we have DeGrom?

 

[GloryDaze4877]

This would be a disaster.

Betts is a much better player than Bryce Harper, who is one of the most overrated players in sports, let alone baseball.

Yeah, but he had a really cool Mother’s Day feature on ESPN.

Sox should stick with Betts.

 

[LouJersey]

You guys also got Shake Shack in your stadium, and I haven't been back to YS3 in a while, but the beer situation was like the description of Roger Dorn in Major League ("I thought you said we didn't have any high priced talent...").

I'm trying my best Lou. Now can we have DeGrom?

Yes, take him. Just make sure Miggy and Frazier are in the package coming back.

 

[GloryDaze4877]

You guys also got Shake Shack in your stadium, and I haven't been back to YS3 in a while, but the beer situation was like the description of Roger Dorn in Major League ("I thought you said we didn't have any high priced talent...").

I'm trying my best Lou. Now can we have DeGrom?

Good news is Lou might be better than what the Mets currently have for an administration. Bad news (for you) is that he hates the Yankees.

No Derek Jeter gift-wrapped specials coming from the Mets if Lou was in charge.

 

[BiggioRainesHOF]

Yes, take him. Just make sure Miggy and Frazier are in the package coming back.

Miggy and Frazier are the package. They aren't in it. No take backsies.

 

[LouJersey]

Miggy and Frazier are the package. They aren't in it. No take backsies.

No, that's the major league ready talent. Sheffield, Florial and someone else as well.

 

[BiggioRainesHOF]

No, that's the major league ready talent. Sheffield, Florial and someone else as well.

I'm fine with Florial, if you're getting Miggy, you'll have to take Johnny Lasagna instead of Sheffield.

 

[GloryDaze4877]

I'm fine with Florial, if you're getting Miggy, you'll have to take Johnny Lasagna instead of Sheffield.

Had to look that up. For a second I thought the Yankees might actually have a prospect named Lasagna...

 

[LouJersey]

I'm fine with Florial, if you're getting Miggy, you'll have to take Johnny Lasagna instead of Sheffield.

Deal.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

I hate agreeing with Gasper but he is dead on about this Red Sox team and the fanbase.

The Red Sox can’t really win until they win in the playoffs - The Boston Globe

NESN is no longer must-see TV during the summer and John Henry has taken the keys away from Tom Werner and did not renew the contract of the person who cut Orsillo loose. Henry wants Orsillo back and move Obie back to radio.

I never thought the Patriots would leap past the Sox and become the most popular team but it has happened.

We already know the 5 AL teams that will advance and oddly the weakest of the 5 is the only one that seems assured to be in the ALDS.

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the only question is who, among broadcasters, gets dealt to San Diego

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

I don’t claim to be an expert at any of these “advanced” stats but I do know the same people who push them as the new smart way and telling me RBI’s are outdated are the same people who use these “advanced” stats to defend JBJ still being in the lineup.

 

[BiggioRainesHOF]

I don’t claim to be an expert at any of these “advanced” stats but I do know the same people who push them as the new smart way and telling me RBI’s are outdated are the same people who use these “advanced” stats to defend JBJ still being in the lineup.

Except Everett Mike has been using them to argue why JBJ shouldn’t be in tha lineup.

Weird.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Except Everett Mike has been using them to argue why JBJ shouldn’t be in tha lineup.

Weird.

I wasn’t referring to that person with a head on his shoulders

 

[JRull86]

Boy is Hammell bad.

 

[DKH]

Why would anyone go to a game in about 15 cities other than free tickets , cheap ones, or the catch a game or two a year

I’m amazed this is Kansas City Royals on a pace for 115 losses ?

Is Connie Mack running this team? Did he trade Lefty Grove & Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox, and Al Simmons and Mickey Cochrane to the Indians and Tigers.

Baseball needs competitive balance a cap ceiling and floor with 25% of each other

Baltimore on pace to finish 61 games out

 

[N o o d l e s]

Full on assault

 

[EverettMike]

Just hope Sale can hold on.

 

[Fenway]

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