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Why does a 140-character limit compel someone to use as few characters as possible? It's like reading the classifieds.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2011 00:51 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 00:42 |
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Brace yourselves, the annual Fangraphs organizational rankings are coming:Dave Cameron posted:With a new wave of front office talent crashing into front offices are furious rates, its nearly impossible to turn over a front office and not get an analytical upgrade in the process, but the Orioles may have accomplished exactly that this winter. Such prose 
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| # ¿ Mar 26, 2012 21:04 |
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:Just in case you wondered if fangraphs writers could embarrass themselves any more In the last few weeks, I've read three or four Fangraphs articles and thought, "Wow, this is actually decent. You don't see that much on FG. Who wrote this?" Turns out it was Jeff Sullivan. Every single time.
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| # ¿ Sep 8, 2012 01:57 |
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Everybody's favourite 11-time Sportswriter of the year: https://twitter.com/ReillyRick/stat...tw_p=tweetembed I could find ten better writers at a My Little Pony convention posted:Dear Seamheads: Please explain how Miguel Cabrera can be 1 HR away from a Triple Crown + some of u r still talking Mike Trout MVP? #GetCable
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| # ¿ Sep 22, 2012 03:39 |
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It's always funny to read baseball writers accidentally make a decent criticism of WAR, but keep building on it until they've narrowed all relevant statistics down to wins and RBI. Let's watch our friend Jerry Green of The Detroit News do that now, shall we? http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...ON03/209290399/ quote:ESPN claims that Trout merits the MVP award despite Cabrera's possible Triple Crown on the basis of WAR. This is not the kind of war that Ted Williams fought in twice amidst his Triple Crown-style seasons. Or the war that brought Willie Mays into the Army during his career. The Tigers are currently seventh in the American League.
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2012 04:56 |
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Since we can't rely on "invented" statistics to determine the MVP, it looks like we'll have to give it to whoever has the highest of the following non-"invented" stats:
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2012 01:07 |
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hcreight posted:He literally thinks this is how WAR works. The best logical-extreme example of this kind of thinking were the people saying Peyton Manning should have won the NFL MVP last year without playing a game.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2012 03:40 |
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Guess who wrote a baseball article again  It's just a rehash of all the arguments for Mike Trout as AL MVP (that mentions WAR a convenient zero times), but he might as well do something between now and the 2014 House races.
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| # ¿ Nov 15, 2012 03:11 |
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Cameron had a rebuttal to Jim Caple's WAR article last week that basically amounted to "Well, WAR isn't the perfect statistic, but it's definitely the best one." I think Jeff Sullivan and Dayn Perry are okay at Fangraphs, although they're less about analysis and more about kickin' rad GIFs and whatever NotGraphs is, respectively.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2013 00:15 |
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| # ¿ May 22, 2013 00:42 |
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The 2013 award for Saltiest Tears of the Year goes to Dennis Latta, a reporter who followed the University of New Mexico Lobos for 33 years and is quitting his job because they lost to Harvard. http://deadspin.com/a-new-mexico-be...cause-458421252 http://newmexico.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1486756 tinstaach fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2013 around 00:11 |
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