Hot Stove Thread 2014-15

Stanton is from Los Angeles. Likelier to be a Dodger than a Yankee.

 

I assume a commitment to 323 million supersedes a commitment to winning.

 

Winners win

 

Historically, when a player improves in those areas like Kluber did, it means he's likely to continue to be pretty good at them next year.

Historically, when a player improves in the area of getting outs on batted balls, it means diddly squat the next year.

And then he suddenly got worse at it for the next three seasons (while still being very good at all the other stuff) before returning to be really good at it this year. Looks an awful lot like random bouncing around, but always trust a sportswriter to come up with a story to match that sort of thing.

I am completely comfortable with you believing this.

 

Yes, I'm aware that you are comfortable with being wrong. You should be by now. It happens so often.

Saying that a skill isn't real because a player doesn't manage it at quite the same level every year is completely wrong. It's a stathead delusion, thinking you have real evidence when you really don't.

You are also including projections (in Kluber's case) as evidence in the argument about performance in 2014. Another bogus stathead trick. We're talking about what they did, not what they will do. You are assuming evidence that does not yet exist. A stathead like you should be ashamed to even try that.

Come on back when you are ready to look at things honestly. Until then, be comfortable with being wrong.

 

Stanton can opt out for free agency after five years.

It's a big contract, but the team better hope Stanton doesn't cringe every time he sees a ball coming at him now. That and Marlins ownership had to do something. That fan base has been burned so many times it's on to how the Marlins have operated.

 

The fact that you think that's what I said shows that this conversation is way, way over your head. That's OK, the world needs ditch diggers.

 

He's too stupid even for that vocation.

 

it is so cute that you might actually think that. Nice try, Eugene, but your rhetorical skills aren't good enough to cover up the fact that you don't really "know stuff" as often as you claim.

I understand exactly what you are doing. You are claiming to have factual support for an argument when you really don't. It is a favorite tactic of yours and quite easy to see through.

Perhaps you aren't being dishonest. Perhaps you really don't understand the words you are typing. Let me try to explain it in a way that even you might understand. When you claim that what some call a skill is actually just luck, you are suggesting that the skill is not real.

Your entire argument suggests that when a batter makes contact, nothing a pitcher did makes a difference other than keeping the ball low. Not throwing the ball hard. Not changing speeds to mess up timing. Not adjusting location inside or outside. Not creating movement. If that really is what you think, then you know nothing about baseball and it is truly comical that you think you could ever write anything that goes over somebody else's head on the subject.

 

Quoted as a reminder next time fart boy tries to lie about who does the stalking and trolling around here.

 

You're on a thread I have been posting on all along, asshole.
You want to be free of Fart, go post on the NBA or college football threads.
I am just noting that you bounce from one fight to another on this board. It's your way.

 

You don't get to claim threads, fart boy. Nobody does.

You jumped into a conversation that did not involve you to do nothing but insult another poster. Eugene and I are not being nice, but we are posting on topic. You are not.