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^^^ Sorry, I just don't agree. I appreciate the argument but I don't think it's blind luck whether a ball put in play will result in a hit or not. It'd be nice if it was easy and a ground ball from Jarod Dyson to 3B could be compared with a ground ball by David Ortiz to 3B. It'd be nice if you could...

Just like with any baseball statistic (BA, HR, OBP, ERA, etc) BABIP will have have some meaning compared to a large sample career stat. You don't needs any stats to know that a good hitter having a bad stretch will probably break out at some point, or that a terrible hitter on a roll will probably f...

I don't like BABIP because it's basically used as either a crutch when someone isn't performing or to argue that someone isn't as good as their core numbers reflect. I just dont think you can justify creased value for a player because he hits dozens of fly balls, dribblers to the pitcher or constant...

..Bautista actually plays a position, and he hits for far more power You must not have seen the ASG last night. That guy locked dreadful in RF! (fun fact: although Rogers Centre favors the home run a little more than Kauffman, Kauffman is a marginally better hitters park overall -- certainly the di...

KCMax wrote:Because the reigning champ gets to select the team.

Why is that? If it's just an exhibition, then let the fans decide who they want to see. If it's a competition then a participant shouldn't get to pick his competition.

Why not field grasses? It'd be really cool if you could find a way to grow wheat.

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Agreed. Good luck with the juggle. Remember, focus on keeping the blue one in the air no matter what!

Looks like I was wrong about Sanchez maybe starting to turn it around. He looked terrible! Meanwhile, Hochevar continues to tear it up. Hopefully, he can save the second half of the double header.

The Royals chose Pena or Quintero for the backup catching position. Makes sense because Pena is under team control next year. They also brought up Teaford who is starting tonight and Jason Bourgeois which I don't really understand. Is Cain STILL not ready?? And why do we need six outfielders?

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So, is this the building we are talking about?

chrizow wrote:Not randomly, but like MAC reached out to them and enticed them there.

That might be one of the smartest things I've heard a company do in a long time.

How about a smaller version of this?

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...but after bfa ducked the Sanchez criticism by railing on Hochevar earlier I think it's a little funny Luke came out and threw four and a third no hit innings to start the game tonight. No kidding! He shut me up. He looked awesome. He just looked more relaxed. I think his problem all along has be...

Alright, for the rest of the month, starting tonight, who will have the best starting pitcher numbers on this team? I'll go with Sanchez just to make it interesting.

As you noted, I never said he was the best pitcher in the world. But, I don't see him as the worst starting pitcher on this team. If you want to start talking about cutting someone loose it should be Luke Hochevar. He has never been good in any year and has been completely rocked a few times this ye...

On the play where he had the runner picked off, the ball was thrown like 5 feet from Butler's glove. Unless Hosmer is Stretch Armstrong, that ball is on the ground. I know. Terrible play, but if I was a pitcher and knew that it was Butler at first instead of Hosmer, I'd probably crap my pants too. ...

He gave up 3 runs, 2 that were aided by 2 base throwing errors to Butler at first. On one, he had the runner picked off running to second. If Hosmer is in there I don't think those errors are made and Sanchez goes 6 or more with 1 run. What were you looking at? Even as is, he went six and gave up 3....

Did you watch the pitching performance (using that term loosely) by Jonathan Sanchez last night? I watched it and thought he pitched fairly well. His throws to firstbase, however.....terrible!! His two errors cost him two runs. But, he went 6 full innings, threw 106 on his second return outing from...

I think Cordish is the problem here. Shouldn't the company that operates a movie theater business be the one making decisions about how to turn a profit at a movie theater? I'm not so sure. Does AMC have any experience running a small, downtown theater? It seems that their strategy is to focus on h...

Can you imagine how much red tape they had to go through for those houses?! They should have just given them away to someone who would rehab them themselves. If that wouldn't have worked, they probably weren't worth saving in the first place.