MLB 2018 regular season thread

I'll leave it to eight major league scouts, and a yahoo writer who transcribes them, to determine if he is a shitty base runner.

 

Whoever said it was wrong. Provably and demonstrably.

 

They gave a statistical projection for the entire season, so no, a fast start does not conclusively prove that wrong.

 

Where does Dick ever say he agreed with the opinion that he wasn’t ready? He’s arguing the sample size and I’m sure he wouldn’t make an assessment based on 14 plate appearances either.

 

I never said he agreed with it. I said he's defending with it. I have also pointed out that all through this discussion, he has railed against the use of a small sample size during the season while expressing no problem at all with the even smaller sample size used by the scouts in spring training.

If you're going to try to claim a gotcha moment by splitting hairs, do better.

 

I'm wondering what @Dick Whitman would be writing today if Ohtani was 1 for 22 with 13 strikeouts and 0 homers and 0 RBIs.

 

First of all, I would not be writing that the scouts in Passan's column had been "proven . . . spectacularly correct," I can assure you of that.

Second of all, fuck RBIs.

 

You know, the thing the anti-RBI'ers don't get is that somefuckingone has to plate score the runners with hits or SFs or walks or whatever.

 

No, we get that.

 

Then WTF is the rub? Your Ohtani argument has more validity than whatever your argument against RBIs is.

 

My argument against RBIs is that it is so highly dependent upon the performance of other players so as to render it relatively useless as compared to statistics that isolate the hitter's performance.

 

Great, isolate the hitter's performance with newfangled sabermetrica. I'm fine with that.

I agree that RBI opportunities are dependent upon the performance of other players.

At the same time, someone's gotta bring those runners around. It's a legitimate stat.