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MLB 2014-2015 Offseason |OT| Playoff Dreaming

Dominican Power

Dominican Power

Member
SuperMalo said:
Even if Didi doesn't pan out this upcoming season, they can go after Desmond the following off-season, and all he's going to cost them is money.

Also no matter how bad Didi does he'd still be an upgrade over what they had this past season. Jeter was fucking terrible.
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Desmond is overrated because his defense is not that good.
 
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CygnusXS

will gain confidence one day
The most underrated trade is clearly going to be the Padres getting Kemp, as he'll lead them to 5 straight NL pennants with 10 WAR seasons in CF.
 
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CygnusXS

will gain confidence one day
Dominican Power said:
Worst unis in baseball.
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Mr. Enigma

Member
Amazing facts about the Giants this season, thanks to Jayson Stark.

-- The Giants went 46-53 in their final 99 games of the season. The Mets, Cubs, and Padres all had better records in their last 99 games.

-- The Giants only got one quality start the entire postseason from a pitcher that wasn't Madison Bumgarner. It was Tim Hudson in the NLDS Game 2 against the Nationals. And they would have lost that game if not for Pablo Sandoval's game-tying RBI double with two outs in the 9th inning off Drew Storen.

-- The Giants starting pitchers never made it out of the second inning of either Game 6 or Game 7 of the World Series.

-- In the postseason games Bumgarner pitched, seven of the eight position players on the lineup had a lower slugging percentage than the pitcher.

-- Buster Posey did not have an extra-base hit in the entire postseason.

-- The Giants used Travis Ishikawa as their primary LF. He had never started a MLB game in LF until game #160 of the regular season.

-- Gregor Blanco was the lead-off hitter in every game of the postseason. He only hit .153 in the postseason and .143 in the World Series.

-- They went through an 8-game stretch in the postseason where the Giants hit no home runs, gave up 8 home runs, and still went 6-2 in those games.

-- They scored 20 runs during the postseason on plays that did not result on base hits.

-- In a 6-game stretch, the Giants averaged two runs a game on plays that did not result on a base hit and scored 12 runs in those plays as opposed to 10 runs on base hits.

-- In Game 3 of the NLCS against the Cardinals, the Giants had exactly two hits after the first inning. One of them was by Tim Hudson. The other was by Juan Perez, who hit .170 in the regular season and was only swinging because he botched two sacrifice bunt attempts. And the Giants ended up winning in extra innings.

-- Bumgarner got a total of 49 outs in the World Series. Their closer, Santiago Casilla, only faced two batters in the entire World Series; neither of which being a save chance.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12092111/mlb-strange-true-postseason-feats
 
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Blearth

Banned
I was at NLCS Game 3.

It was a symbol for the Giants season.

They started off strongly, with four runs in the first inning.

Then they spent the next seven innings seeing their huge lead slowly whittled down until STL tied the game at four.

Then as soon as the game went into extras, they lucked their way into glorious victory.
 
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Purple Cheeto

Member
Mr. Enigma said:
Amazing facts about the Giants this season, thanks to Jayson Stark.

-- The Giants went 46-53 in their final 99 games of the season. The Mets, Cubs, and Padres all had better records in their last 99 games.

-- The Giants only got one quality start the entire postseason from a pitcher that wasn't Madison Bumgarner. It was Tim Hudson in the NLDS Game 2 against the Nationals. And they would have lost that game if not for Pablo Sandoval's game-tying RBI double with two outs in the 9th inning off Drew Storen.

-- The Giants starting pitchers never made it out of the second inning of either Game 6 or Game 7 of the World Series.

-- In the postseason games Bumgarner pitched, seven of the eight position players on the lineup had a lower slugging percentage than the pitcher.

-- Buster Posey did not have an extra-base hit in the entire postseason.

-- The Giants used Travis Ishikawa as their primary LF. He had never started a MLB game in LF until game #160 of the regular season.

-- Gregor Blanco was the lead-off hitter in every game of the postseason. He only hit .153 in the postseason and .143 in the World Series.

-- They went through an 8-game stretch in the postseason where the Giants hit no home runs, gave up 8 home runs, and still went 6-2 in those games.

-- They scored 20 runs during the postseason on plays that did not result on base hits.

-- In a 6-game stretch, the Giants averaged two runs a game on plays that did not result on a base hit and scored 12 runs in those plays as opposed to 10 runs on base hits.

-- In Game 3 of the NLCS against the Cardinals, the Giants had exactly two hits after the first inning. One of them was by Tim Hudson. The other was by Juan Perez, who hit .170 in the regular season and was only swinging because he botched two sacrifice bunt attempts. And the Giants ended up winning in extra innings.

-- Bumgarner got a total of 49 outs in the World Series. Their closer, Santiago Casilla, only faced two batters in the entire World Series; neither of which being a save chance.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12092111/mlb-strange-true-postseason-feats
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Flukiest shit since the Angels title. And people wonder why I am not a big fan of the baseball post season.
 
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HarryDemeanor

Member
Mr. Enigma said:
Amazing facts about the Giants this season, thanks to Jayson Stark.

-- The Giants went 46-53 in their final 99 games of the season. The Mets, Cubs, and Padres all had better records in their last 99 games.

-- The Giants only got one quality start the entire postseason from a pitcher that wasn't Madison Bumgarner. It was Tim Hudson in the NLDS Game 2 against the Nationals. And they would have lost that game if not for Pablo Sandoval's game-tying RBI double with two outs in the 9th inning off Drew Storen.

-- The Giants starting pitchers never made it out of the second inning of either Game 6 or Game 7 of the World Series.

-- In the postseason games Bumgarner pitched, seven of the eight position players on the lineup had a lower slugging percentage than the pitcher.

-- Buster Posey did not have an extra-base hit in the entire postseason.

-- The Giants used Travis Ishikawa as their primary LF. He had never started a MLB game in LF until game #160 of the regular season.

-- Gregor Blanco was the lead-off hitter in every game of the postseason. He only hit .153 in the postseason and .143 in the World Series.

-- They went through an 8-game stretch in the postseason where the Giants hit no home runs, gave up 8 home runs, and still went 6-2 in those games.

-- They scored 20 runs during the postseason on plays that did not result on base hits.

-- In a 6-game stretch, the Giants averaged two runs a game on plays that did not result on a base hit and scored 12 runs in those plays as opposed to 10 runs on base hits.

-- In Game 3 of the NLCS against the Cardinals, the Giants had exactly two hits after the first inning. One of them was by Tim Hudson. The other was by Juan Perez, who hit .170 in the regular season and was only swinging because he botched two sacrifice bunt attempts. And the Giants ended up winning in extra innings.

-- Bumgarner got a total of 49 outs in the World Series. Their closer, Santiago Casilla, only faced two batters in the entire World Series; neither of which being a save chance.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12092111/mlb-strange-true-postseason-feats
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Fuckin' witch craft.
 
BFIB

BFIB

Member
Transcript of the Byrd trade:

Amaro: We'll take Hamilton.
Jocketty: Nope.
Amaro: We'd like Cueto
Jocketty: Nope.
Amaro: We'll take Bruce
Jocketty: Nope
Amaro: We'll take 5 top prospects
Jocketty: Nope
Amaro: we'll take less prospects, but still need 2 of your top end
Jocketty: nope
Amaro: we'll take 5 lower prospects
Jocketty: Nope.
Amaro: we'll take two lower prospects and a years supply of Skyline Chili
Jocketty: Nope
Amaro: We'll take a lower prospect.

Deal done.
 
DietRob

DietRob

i've been begging for over 5 years.
dmag1223 said:
Jocketty is running this organization into the ground.
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I just found out about the Byrd trade. I thought it was pretty decent value. Are you commenting more on the Latos/Simon moves? I do think those are a bit questionable but it dumps payroll that we need. Admittedly I don't know much about Marlon Byrd other than his stat line the past few years. We could do worse and have worse.

Also Happy New Year MLB-GAF. Somebody please take this cold ass weather away and hand me a hot dog WITH MUSTARD and an overpriced beer.
 
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evil solrac v3.0

Member
Something I found in Facebook. Found it interesting. What do you guys think?

Pondering baseball salaries, the marginal cost of a win and the strange-to-seemingly-foolish offseason decisions by the Oakland A's. I think I understand now...
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The minimum MLB player salary now is about $500K, meaning that fielding a team of minimum-earning guys would cost over $12M. Such a team, absent stars, still might win (say) 50 games, given historical worsts for bad teams. Each win cost such a team $240,000. Hang onto that.
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The average team might have a payroll approaching $100M and of course wins 81 games, or roughly 30 more than a bad team. Those 30 wins cost an additional $80M or so, or over $2.5M per win.
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A very competitive team might win (say) 95 games, or 15 more games than the average team. For the additional 15 wins, that team might have an overall payroll of (say) $130M, or $30M more than the average team. Per win, that team pays out $2M in payroll.
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The takeaway seems to be that a win, for a competitive team, is worth about $2M to certainly not more than $3M. Top tier free agents in the marketplace seem to be earning salaries of $20M or so, suggesting a corresponding WAR of 6 or more. A $15M salary might correspond to a WAR of 5.
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Assuming you believe in the WAR as a metric for return-on-investment, has Billy Beane in this off-season been working to rediscover the economic sweet spot? Has he deemed that $2M or $3M per win to be just simply too expensive, and seeks to buy marginal wins for some far lesser number? It's the only way his actions make any sense and it sure will be interesting to see. What are your thoughts?
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Mr. Enigma

Member
Reports coming out saying the Padres made a strong push for Hiroki Kuroda before Kuroda decided to return to Japan.

Some reports came out saying the Padres offered Kuroda a 1-year, $18 million deal, but a team source has come out saying that figure is higher than reality.
 
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chicagocubsfan

Member
Mr. Enigma said:
Reports coming out saying the Padres made a strong push for Hiroki Kuroda before Kuroda decided to return to Japan.

Some reports came out saying the Padres offered Kuroda a 1-year, $18 million deal, but a team source has come out saying that figure is higher than reality.
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They could have used him. Cashner is pretty injury prone.
 
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Friggz

Member
kinda surprised the yankees gave up on banuelos. He was still only 23 and 2 years removed from being a top 30 prospect in baseball.

Hope the yankees know what they are doing.
 
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Friggz

Member
SuperMalo said:
First move Cash has made this off-season that I didn't like.
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it makes sense. Scouts were very down on manny the last year and injuries started becoming a problem. in fact im glad they made a move now before he blew his arm out and the yankees got nothing for him.
 
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