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The Rule V Draft is also a thing that is kinda interesting so I'll try to explain it here. When you draft a player, you retain his rights even if you keep him in the minors for an extended time (5 years for those 18 or younger when drafted, 4 years otherwise). If the player stays in the minor leagues for longer than that without being placed on the 40-man roster, he is eligible for being drafted. To draft another organization's player, you pay $50,000 dollars for him. After drafting a player, he must stay on the team's 25-man roster for the rest of the season, if he does not then he must be offered back to the original team. After the season is over, Rule V players can be optioned back to the minor leagues. Ex-Pittsburgh GM Dave Littlefield is pretty famous for forgetting to protect their 5 top prospects in 2003, losing them all to Rule V even though they had free spots on the 40-man.
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Hand Knit posted:I would be quite surprised if the answer isn't Micah Owings. His career line is 293/323/538 Micah Owings is top among all post-expansion pitchers, Brandon Backe is second with .256/.317/.414. Among all pitchers with any sort of a sustained career the best are probably Mike Hampton and Ken Brett.
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Ken Brett owns by the wayKen Brett posted:In high school, I was also an outfielder and a pretty good hitter. I always thought my being able to hit helped me in games, and I pinch-hit a lot for pitchers, although there were a couple times in Pittsburgh when I hit for Kurt Bevacqua. He didn't like that much.
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Zamboni Jesus posted:i'm looking forward to an announcing describing a hit as being the babipiest some day soon Don't be silly, Pickle Surprise will never get a job.
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| # ¿ Apr 1, 2011 04:10 |
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chrysamere posted:Maybe you're trolling, but isn't Coors roughly a normal stadium now? It's still a large hitters park. It's not the complete and total bandbox it has been in the past but it was still twice as strong a hitters park as any other in 2010.
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I don't actually have a problem with the Angels at all, and they have a lot of players that I like a lot (Callaspo, Weaver, Morales, Kendrick, Wells, Haren). Plus I figure if everyone hates them they must be doing something right.
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The Blue Caboose posted:Also this leads to one of my co-workers claiming they have the best outfield in baseball this year with Abreu, Hunter, and Wells. If it was 2002, sure! Not to mention that I'm pretty sure Abreu is the DH and Borjous is playing center. I'm relatively certain they've been rotating Abreu and Hunter at DH
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2011 21:16 |
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How much can a player's contract decrease via arbitration?
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| # ¿ Apr 15, 2011 23:53 |
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If he wants exciting I don't think any team is as exciting as Texas right now.
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| # ¿ Apr 17, 2011 07:56 |
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The funny thing about Uggla playing second and Prado playing LF is that the opposite makes so much more sense
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2011 02:39 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Are Dumb Hills allowed? Tal's Hill owns if you hate centerfielders
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| # ¿ May 31, 2011 18:50 |
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e: read it wrong
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| # ¿ Jun 2, 2011 07:48 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Couldn't you also have a guy walk, and the next 3 batters ground into a fielder's choice? That's also a lot more plausible than 3 pickoffs or CS A fielder's choice is an AB, I think.
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angrygodofjebus posted:http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/vid...363395&c_id=cws Remains Hawk Harrelson's finest hour
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A drat FOG posted:unironically agreeing with this ironic post Hawk is the best.
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2011 04:56 |
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Language change owns, death to prescription.
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| # ¿ Jul 21, 2011 17:13 |
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A drat FOG posted:or even just that the home team hasn't hit many triples on the road, right (or both?)? isn't that how it works? Park factor gets really screwed up without a good sample I would imagine that's especially true with triples because of how comparatively rare they are, probably makes them more prone to crazy splits like that
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| # ¿ Aug 3, 2011 19:06 |
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Grittybeard posted:Not 100% sure on the first, but TOOTBLAN is Thrown Out On The Bases Like A Nincompoop. I'm not sure of the history behind the term, I've read that it's a sabermetric joke thing (a stat that you just know it when you see it) but I have no idea if that's true. Pretty sure it originates from a Cubs blog regarding Ryan Theriot
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| # ¿ Aug 7, 2011 03:01 |
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Badfinger posted:*Most. The fat 1B was probably always a fat 1B or LF. Billy Butler was (technically) a 3B 
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| # ¿ Aug 16, 2011 17:40 |
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If this theoretical guy played C, SS, or 2B, I'd take him and hit him 9th.
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| # ¿ Aug 18, 2011 18:17 |
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Outliers in BABIP you say? Phil Niekro: .270 Joe Niekro: .270 Tim Wakefield: .274 Hoyt Wilhelm: .245 All hail the knuckleball.
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2011 17:19 |
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I would suspect that extreme flyball pitchers have such a low BABIP because home runs aren't treated as in play
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2011 18:05 |
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OdinsBeard posted:Well obviously, but Matt Cain also has a very low career HR/FB%. I think this makes sense too since he plays in a strong pitcher's park. Hits that would normally be home runs (and not included in BABIP calculations at all) become flyball outs (which are factored in BABIP and lower it).
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2011 19:24 |
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OdinsBeard posted:And yet, very little home/road split for HR/FB%. Well gently caress Matt Cain then. At least I feel semi-validated by looking at Ted Lilly's career 1.4 HR/9 and .271 BABIP
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2011 21:17 |
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Kauffman is a pretty good example of the opposite, too. Hard to hit home runs in, but it plays pretty neutral because it's always insane about triples.
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| # ¿ Sep 2, 2011 02:17 |
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marioinblack posted:If someone touches home plate safely, a run counts no matter how he got there. There does not necessarily have to be an RBI. I think he knows when RBIs are/aren't awarded, he just wants to know about player runs, which are always awarded if the player scores.
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| # ¿ Sep 12, 2011 01:19 |
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No Safe Word posted:Eh, subpar defensively and career 1B means that 137 isn't nearly as hot as if he were a plus-fielding CF. Clark is a pretty good example of "The Hall of the Really Good" in my opinion. OPS+ of 137 is very good when it's relatively OBP-heavy, and Clark's is.
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2011 00:50 |
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Badfinger posted:.396 wOBA to .406 wOBA, and from there it's down to defense and positional adjustments. Fight me. And park adjustments, which in this case are definitely non-trivial
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2011 15:35 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:Anyone have a link for the twitter account that summarizes fangraphs articles in 140 characters or less? I'm having trouble parsing a phrase in google that will come up with it. It's @FG_As_Tweets
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| # ¿ Sep 15, 2011 15:49 |
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alpha_destroy posted:Mitch Maier has a slider nasty enough to saw off Jason Varitek. Too bad he is in the AL. Former catcher Mitch Maier! Between him and Francoeur the Royals are all set in disastrous games
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2011 03:42 |
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DOOP posted:Why is inter-league A Thing and many people hate it? (Not necessarily here) I think it's mostly because the leagues do have the DH difference. NL teams usually don't have another good bat and it might put them at a disadvantage. Similarly, AL teams have to choose to not use one of their regular starters. I'm a fan of interleague but I understand the complaints.
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2011 01:08 |
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It's hard to say but it seems to be guys who have a lot of power and poor defense, the Mark Reynoldses of the world
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| # ¿ Nov 4, 2011 05:27 |
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Coors Field and Kauffman are both fantastic
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| # ¿ Nov 10, 2011 00:57 |
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Have Glove, Will Travel gets recommended a lot too and for good reason, Bill Lee is super interesting.
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2012 18:56 |
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Lungboy posted:What about the Rogers Centre? Toronto sounds like a pretty nice place to visit, and I think the mrs might be up for that. She'd probably agree to San Fran too. I had thought Rogers Centre was considered to be awful.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2012 01:25 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:dont root for an nl team Don't do this and don't root for the Royals
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| # ¿ Feb 1, 2012 18:33 |
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Mike Tysons CARFAX posted:This is probably stupid to someone who knows anything about baseball but that's why I'm asking it here. It doesn't really matter that much. The most important thing is to have your best batters at the top of the order, so that they get more plate appearances over the course of the season. The main reason that SAS complains about lineups is that it's one of the few things that a manager has direct control over, and so he better do it right.
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| # ¿ Mar 12, 2012 19:28 |
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The broken bones posted:Reminder that in 2006 Dave Littlefield felt Joe Randa was the missing piece and signed him for 4 million dollars. Joe Randa owned 
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| # ¿ Apr 8, 2012 16:32 |
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If the shift's on, and you have any sort of speed, bunting past the pitcher on the third base side will almost certainly work. Carlos Pena just did this recently I think.
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SWITCH HITLER posted:The Royals used to have Some Guy and Frank White on TV. Now they have Some Other Guy and *shudder* Rex Hudler Some Guy (Ryan Lefebvre) is still the primary PBP guy. Physioc hasn't called that many games so far. Also Hawk owns, haters vacate.
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