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Fungo Squiggly
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Wow! I didn't think that ball had a shot at getting out.
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Cleveland forces game 3
San Diego forces game 3
Yankees/Red Sox tied 3-3 top 6
Reds/Dodgers starting at 9pm
San Diego forces game 3
Yankees/Red Sox tied 3-3 top 6
Reds/Dodgers starting at 9pm
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Hate the freaking Yankme's, but as a buccos fan, it was nice to see Bednar play in a meaningful game
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BuckBackHome
Wolverine is largest member of weasel family
How are the Mets doing? I want to see the ROI on that $342 million payroll.
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Tanner
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I dont understand how analytics guys still say RBI's dont matter. Saw Keith Law say this and even put *RBIs* like that. In a league where everyone hits .240 and tries to hit a homer every pitch and striking out doesn't matter driving in a run actually does matter. I just watched the Reds fail to drive in runs like 1,000 times this season
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I think it's semantics. No one thinks they don't "matter", the point about counting stats like that is the hitter in question has no control over coming up in a spot with runners on base or coming to bat with bases empty.
wRC+, OPS and all that are meant to be a better measurement of the hitters true value.
So in the case of the Reds, yeah we see guys not come through all the time and yes those runs would matter but that is on the lack of true production of the hitter, not accumulating a certain stat just because he came up in a spot that happened to be an RBI opportunity.
It's like the Save stat. You can put a average MLB player in as the closer or 4th in the lineup and they are going to accumulate a certain number of those stats just because they are of average value and get the opportunity more consistently.
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but the RBI doesn't measure that. The contact rate, exit velo and all that measure how well the hitter did his job. The RBI is just a result.
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Amazing how many pitchers have 95+ mph fastballs now. Back in the day, only a rare big dude could toss like that. Now, we have skinny sub-6’ guys dealing at 97 mph. Not sure how this came to be.
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