Baseball Quotes of 2016 from Fangraphs

[MFS62]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/fangraphs-qa-and-sunday-notes-the-best-quotes-of-2016/

I agree with Torii Hunter.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

“As the wheels keep turning — as baseball evolves — teams are going to start using their best relievers to get the biggest outs. They’re not going to keep putting them in a box where they only pitch the ninth. And the teams that are early adopters are going to reap the most benefits.” — Burke Badenhop, itinerant reliever, January 2016

And then there's reliever Huston Street who says he'd retire before he'd allow anyone to take 9th innings and the save stats that go with it away from him - so we're not quite out of the lunkhead era yet.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: “As the wheels keep turning — as baseball evolves — teams are going to start using their best relievers to get the biggest outs. They’re not going to keep putting them in a box where they only pitch the ninth. And the teams that are early adopters are going to reap the most benefits.” — Burke Badenhop, itinerant reliever, January 2016

Maybe Badenhop should be saying "as baseball devolves" instead of "evolves" or "as baseball comes to its senses again, like it did forty years ago and going back.

[A Boy Named Seo]

A lot of good ones in there. Trout on tornadoes, PJ Conlon (who?) on going through chimneys, Tyler Clippard on FIP...

AJ Finch on saves:

“I probably shouldn’t say this out loud — this is my inside voice talking — but things that are important to your players have to be important to the manager to some extent… If we played in a nonemotional, non-compensated neutral environment, I think we would flush that stat saves down the toilet. But we don’t.” — A.J. Hinch, Astros manager, December 2016


This is def in the wrong thread, but these quotes on relief pitching reminded me of this book that I think most people on this board would really dig --> https://www.amazon.com/Only-Rule-Has-Work-Experiment/dp/1627795642

Quick summary: Ben and Sam from Baseball Prospectus get to take over an indy league team for one season to try all the zany strategies driven by analytics that MLB teams generally deem too risky to try in the big leagues (wild defensive shifts, changing pitcher roles, etc.). Even at this level, much of the battle is getting their own players to buy into it. Good stuff, yall.

[Edgy MD]

Conlon is the best thing since pizza bagels. Check him out in the Prospect Forum.

[Frayed Knot]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: ... these quotes on relief pitching reminded me of this book that I think most people on this board would really dig --> https://www.amazon.com/Only-Rule-Has-Work-Experiment/dp/1627795642

That's where I got the Huston Street quote (or paraphrase at least) from.