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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Reb
Date: August 7, 2015, 5:07 pm
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Orioles call up Junior Lake.
Think Lake has a small, but possible, chance to evolve into a
solid regular eventually. Athletic and taking forever to learn
the game of baseball but think he has a chance.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: brjones
Date: August 7, 2015, 6:24 pm
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Rangers trade for Mike Napoli.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: guest61
Date: August 7, 2015, 7:19 pm
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--- Quote from: Reb link ---
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> Orioles call up Junior Lake.
>
> Think Lake has a small, but possible, chance to evolve into a
solid regular eventually. Athletic and taking forever to learn
the game of baseball but think he has a chance.
>
--- End Quote ---
Yep.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Ron
Date: August 7, 2015, 9:33 pm
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Rob Neyer with a somewhat surprising piece on intangibles.
HTML http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/derek-jeter-scott-rolen-teamship-intangibles-chemistry-curt-schilling-kirk-gibson-080415
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: AndyMacFAIL
Date: August 7, 2015, 10:32 pm
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: August 8, 2015, 12:06 am
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Astros getting Perez from the Dbacks for a minor leaguer.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: FDISK
Date: August 8, 2015, 2:43 pm
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Good article by Neyer. I'm not sure why you found it
"surprising".
When Bill James first started writing abstracts back in '80s I
became an instant convert. Over the years sabermetrics has
ballooned. Now...it seems that sabermetrics is the end
all...each new development taken as gospel. Not at all what
James planned.
Like most prophets, he wouldn't recognize a modern religion.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Reb
Date: August 8, 2015, 3:45 pm
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--- Quote from: FDISK link ---
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> Good article by Neyer. I'm not sure why you found it
"surprising".
>
> When Bill James first started writing abstracts back in '80s I
became an instant convert. Over the years sabermetrics has
ballooned. Now...it seems that sabermetrics is the end
all...each new development taken as gospel. Not at all what
James planned.
>
> Like most prophets, he wouldn't recognize a modern religion.
>
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The "gospel" component are the outsiders--websites, bloggers,
posters, etc. Way too much rigidity.
The insiders--the younger, cutting edge, educated folks who grew
up reading James and others--are a different sort. They tend to
actually interact with a more diverse population and most are
inherently skeptical of dogma and are comfortable changing on
the fly when circumstances warrant. Cubs leadership know all the
sabernetric stuff too but hard to listen to them and conclude
anything is gospel to them.
Think all of this is useful, even the dogma. Just have to
separate the wheat from the chaff. This has been true of every
advance in every discipline, ever. Skepticism is the foundation
of the James Abstracts too. Skepticism permeates almost every
page. The New Dogma warrants skepticism too. No different than
anything else.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: FDISK
Date: August 8, 2015, 4:01 pm
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I always thought James was, among other things, the original
"mythbuster". He was skeptical...of conventional wisdom...of
established legend...and almost anything else that was taken for
granted. He was also very skeptical of his own work.
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Re: Around Baseball
DIR By: Reb
Date: August 8, 2015, 4:24 pm
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Right. Some folks think of James (and other contemporaries,
Craig Wright, Pete Palmer, etc) as mostly about stats but really
about examining the mostly unexplored status quo and dogma.
Amazing how all this now part of the game. A fantastically good
thing.
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