... What's interesting though, is that the Indians are scoring a lot more runs than their collective OPS suggests. So if I were to replace the actual number...
Dale has answered the question of why Wedge an be faulted even though I know he didn't intend to. On the one hand he says Wedge can't be blamed for the offense...
... It has to be a true mystery to just about any person with any understanding of baseball that in the current situation Mr Dellucci gets to have ABs over...
... July 1, we're at the midpoint of the season and the team is now in last place, officially worse than Kansas City. (Thank God for Seattle) Please, sir, may...
... BB- ... more runs ... actual ... L ... Yeah, I think that is very interesting, too. Sort of another case where "OPS runs" is actually superior to actual...
... Well I see Todd's point. Sizemore may be trying to slug more, perhaps trying to hit more doubles and homers. That often involves being less disciplined...
... and/or ... bears ... recently ... exactly ... frequently had ... several ... where ... The 'he only had a .500 record at the all-star break once' is sort...
... Actually, it's not just Bill James or SABR, OPS correlates to runs scored to a FAR better degree than AVG. Actually, the best measure is OBP * SLG which...
... though ... Actually, no, I'm not sure I 'fault' Wedge for playing a .786 OPS Blake, 8% better than league average, over an unproven Marte, when you are...
... Your posts are consistently excellent, and I appreciate them immensely. I don't always agree with every point, but they are articulate and either...
... From: "dale_mahoney" <dalemahoney@...> To: <clesports@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:01 PM Subject: [CSML] Re: More evidence of a...
...Eric Wedge must go. I understand that the team has been crippled by injuries, and that maybe it wasn't nearly as good as we thought or hoped that it was. So...
... Ah well that's fine then. The Indians can now line up Marte, and dump Dellucci (to some rich NL team for peanuts?). I wouldn't dump Blake since he can...
... Joe Borowski makes me long for Bob Wickman, who drove me crazy. I know Joe is doing the best he can, and nobody in the relief corps is exactly stellar at...
The Borowski era fairly well symbolizes what's wrong with the Indians organization. An entirely predictable situation that was allowed to become reality solely...
... The Indians have put themselves in the additional situation of having to accept less for Sabathia (even though the botched handling of Sabathia was already...
... The #1 most ignored rule of being a baseball fan and the president of the United State. Loving a team -- or a country -- doesn't mean you have to see...
... From: dale_mahoney //The 'he only had a .500 record at the all-star break once' is sort of a red herring. I think another part of it was that he has never...
... by ... Well, like it or not, Borowski's the closer. The Indians are paying the guy $4 mil to do that job, and until yesterday, in his 12 one inning ...
... This is a case where, like Charlie Brown to Linus, I am compelled to ask your statistics to please shut up. For a season-and-a-half, we've watched Borowski...
... Never have words of greater falsehood been written or uttered on this or any other forum. Unless the goal is to destroy the collective will of the...
... //The Indians have put themselves in the additional situation of having to accept less for Sabathia (even though the botched handling of Sabathia was...
... sort of ... a ... success? That's not the point (although ignoring the good seems to be implicit in arguments that 'The manager sucks and must be...
... else ... closer. He ... and is now ... ready to ... and not ... doing ... they ... put him ... have a ... team's ... Actually, Foulke is pitching for OAK,...
... a team isn't playing well, it doesn't mean they've quit, or lack character. Why can't it be about a lack of talent? Because that would mean that having...
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