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Ben Clemens
3:40
What percentage of the MIN/NYY series runs will be on HRs?
<50% (7.6% | 5 votes)
 
51-75% (66.7% | 44 votes)
 
76+% (25.8% | 17 votes)
 
Total Votes: 66
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:41
Kiermaier had good horizontal movement on that angry bat flip, but you really need to have some vertical bite so you can get some good end-over-end action
Ben Clemens
3:41
So Dan, I would put a 60 on the bat flip. It's definitely no angry helmet smash from the Wild Card game.
R
3:42
Bat Flip+, leaders Yasiel Puig with a 220 BF+, add it in is a new WAR component man is going to get Paid
Ben Clemens
3:42
Nah Tim Anderson leads.
Nick
3:42
If Verlander wins a Cy Young and World Series this year, then plays out the two years on his contract at any close to his current level of performance, does he enter the HOF as an Astro?
Ben Clemens
3:42
His grab-and-throw flip redefined the 20-80 scale.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:42
I have a feeling JV will do a Maddux/Mussina no-logo.

And it's remarkable how much HOF progress he's made over the past two seasons. Really pushed himself from "if things continue well" to "no doubt, you jabbering fool!"
Ben Clemens
3:43
It's like the first time someone saw Joey Gallo and realized what 80 power really was.
Derek
3:45
Hey it's Tyler Glasnow!
And maybe it shouldn't've been Tyler Glasnow!
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:46
What does Glasnow take for a sore arm? Tylernol.
Cito's Mustache
3:46
The Rays have a third Lowe (Josh) on the way too. I'd love to see him prank people by asking them to pronounce the 'e' or something.
FadedCrown
3:46
FanGraphs discord when
Ben Clemens
3:46
Tyle-nope!
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:46
That Lowe comment and the previous conversation reminds me of the first round of the 2010 draft, when the White Sox took Chris Sale (pronounced sail) and the Rays took Josh Sale (pronounced sally)
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:46
I totally think we should have one!
Dystopian Future
3:46
Remember when we were all talking about Bryce Harper's bat flip against WAS? Now that looks pretty tame. Harper has to up his game.
Ben Clemens
3:46
Nick Anderson fulfilling his contractual requirement to always be warming up.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:47
We've always been at war with Nickasia
Sabo
3:47
verlander has as complete a HOF resume as you can possibly has as of the end of this season
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:47
uh i wouldn't go that far
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:47
You can ALWAYS be better
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:48
300 wins, for one thing. Above-average JAWS for another.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:48
But I think he's in at this point without having to add any bulk numbers to fatten up his lines
FadedCrown
3:48
Can someone tell me what the point of RA9-WAR is?
Ben Clemens
3:48
I like RA9-WAR!
Dystopian Future
3:48
Jose Altuve in play, run(s).
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:48
How many Altuves was that?
Ben Clemens
3:48
Boy that thing was gone fast.
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:48
Not everyone likes FIP as a WAR base, for philosophical reasons
3:49
Like a lot of stats, there's some tug-and-pull involving predictive vs. descriptive
Ben Clemens
3:49
Over long stretches of time (multi-season windows), it's pretty reasonable to think that FIP doesn't capture everything you want.
AvatarJay Jaffe
3:49
one thing I really like about us having an RA9 WAR is that you can combine that with FIP WAR and take an average
AvatarDan Szymborski
3:49
My WAR in ZiPS is kind of a compromise between FIP based and defense based, but we don't need more WARs.
Ben Clemens
3:50
Like I'm not here to argue with the general idea of DIPS but it would be the peak of hubris to think that FIP was perfect and got everything exactly right for every pitcher.
At some point the runs you allow are what matters.
AvatarJay Jaffe
FadedCrown
3:50
So a pitcher like Dakota Hudson benefits from RA9-WAR?
Ben Clemens
3:51
He has so far, though I'm less certain he has the right kind of skills to keep doing it forever. Julio Teheran has been a consistent FIP beater, though.
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