acblue
Feb 12, 2008 Jan 07, 2009 50 15099
I have a nasty habit of falling in love with players most people hate.
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OTFPOTD-01/07/09
by acblue
on Jan 7, 2009 8:40 AM PST
So this is what it's like to get up at a decent hour. Can't say I'm a fan.
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Consistency meter: Adrian Beltre
Not buying it.
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WAR for position player spreadsheets
by acblue
on Dec 15, 2008 10:26 PM PST
I posted a link to these in the Sabermetrics 101 thread, and upon doing so I realized that they weren't really all that well suited to being viewed and edited by more than one person at a time. Since some people seemed to be interested, I decided to redo them and make them a bit more user-friendly.
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Some dudes--->Cleveland, some other dudes--->Mets, a whole bunch of dudes--->Seattle
by acblue
on Dec 10, 2008 9:57 PM PST
Mets get:
J.J. Putz
Sean Green
Jeremy Reed
Indians get:
Joe Smith
Luis Valbuena
Mariners get:
Franklin Gutierrez
Endy Chavez
Aaron Heilman
Mike Carp
Maikel Cleto
Jason Vargas
Ezequiel Carrera
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OTFPOTD 12.08.08-Winter Meetings Start Today Edition
by acblue
on Dec 8, 2008 2:29 AM PST
I am so anxious for the moves to get rolling I don't know what to do. It's entirely possible we'll be saying goodbye to some familiar (and in some cases well-loved) faces before the week is out, but we may very well be saying hello to some exciting new faces as well. Should be interesting, no matter what, and I'd like to think it's going to turn out better than last year's winter meetings.
My baseball fandom is pretty all encompassing; during the season it's all about the games of course, but this time of year I'm obsessed with roster construction, the ways in which the market is evolving, and the unfamiliar names that tend to first pop up in trade speculation that might end up being tomorrow's superstars. I love this time of year in a much different way than I love the regular season, but I still love it a lot. A random prediction? The market is going to become slightly less retarded when it comes to defensive ability; more precisely, defensive liabilities might be somewhat surprised at the contract offers they get. I'm not sure that a lot of GMs understand how valuable someone like, say, Adam Everett really is, but they very well may realize how much value someone like, say, Adam Dunn gives back on defense. But we'll see. Watch Raul get 4/48 and a starting OF spot.
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OT - Annals of Drinking: A Better Brew - The rise of extreme beer.
Great New Yorker article. Mainly about the history of Dogfish Head, but there's plenty of other ineresting stuff to be found. Apparently the brewmaster at Orval likes Budweiser. Who knew?
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OTFPOTD 11-18-02008: Last Night Never Happened Edition
by acblue
on Nov 18, 2008 3:28 AM PST
Well, parts of it at least.
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