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Valadius wrote: Remember when he yelled on the basepaths and caused that guy to drop the ball? Another example. that's (arguably) busch, not dirty. dirty is going in spikes-high, or taking out people's knees when breaking up dps. also, keep in mind that had derek jeter done either, it would likely have been looked upon by the masses and the mass media as a player willing to do anything to win, and not as a cheap trick.

if an OPS+ of 80 is replacement level, then paul loduca is just barely above replacement, and jose valentin just barely below (82 and 78 OPS+ respectively, as of today's bbref stats). if an OPS+ of 60 is replacement level, then julio franco is replacement (OPS+ of 59). the latter feels more right. oe: a quick crosscheck between baseball prospectus (for which this season it appears as if a 0.230 EQA is replacement level) and baseballreference, and it looks like about a 67 (up to maybe 71) OPS+ is replacement level this year. so stephen drew, marcus giles, and brad ausmus, to name a few, are your example replacements.

as much blame as could be heaped upon him for the collapse, an equal amount could be heaped upon him for (i hope) arresting it and turning the team back into a winner, no?

nice. i'm battling for my second championship in three years in my mofo keeper league. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b2/2739

i like it. (does this not show up?)

in my spare time, i've been kind of building an uber table of hall of famers and near hall of famers and some of their statistics. for now, i've been focusing on baseball prospectus' wins above replacement player, adjusted for all time - WARP3. my work isn't quite done yet, as i want to go in and separate out the hofers by how they got in - first ballot, subsequent years, and veterans committee - and then use this to compare newly eligible players to judge their merit on precedence. the early results are that there are a number of players in the hall from the dead ball era that drag down the aggregate ("hey, he batted over .300 for his career - he MUST be a hall of famer!"). anyways, what i'm doing is looking at not only the cumulative career wins above replacement, but also for each player's 5-year peak (i'm also considering doing a 3-yr peak and 7-yr peak). 25% of all hall of famers have accrued fewer than 86 WARP3 for their career 25% of all hall of famers have accrued fewer than 38.5 WARP3 for their 5-yr peak juan gone has 80.9 WARP3 total and 34.5 5-yr peak WARP3. juan gone does not compare favorably in this regard. griffey, for the record, has 138 and 52. both are in the top 25% of hall of famers, and rather close to jimmie foxx (131, 53.5) and george brett (138, 49.5) reggie jackson (124, 42.3) is above the median for career (106.5) and below median for his 5-yr peak (49) and since he's been mentioned, jim thome sits at 109, 44.5, comparatively just about an average hall of famer. i'd do this for win shares as well as WARP3, but to date i've yet to find a free source of win shares through baseball history. (any suggestions?) ...edit... oh yeah, i'm treating pitchers and hitters as separate populations, despite babe ruth's terrific attempt at intermingling. for my purposes, he counts as a hitter, and besides, it doesn't really change all that much anyways if i were to split off his pitching years.

griffey's 89-01 were better years, plus add in about 15 stolen bases per year to gonzo's 2-3, plus 40 walks or so and 30 fewer k's gonzo's best ops+ was 169. griffey bettered that twice. gonzo's second best ops+ was 150. griffey bettered that five times.

i guess a RISP 2 outs deep fly ball that the outfielder drops wouldn't be scored a sacrifice fly and an error, would it?

espn > stats > NL team batting > runners in scoring pos, 2 outs pulldown philly's the best team in the nl in this regard.

the average nl team had 614 at bats with runners in scoring position, 2 outs. the mets had 615. the average nl team scored 227 runs in these situations. the mets scored 197 the average nl team had a batting average of 0.244 the mets averaged 0.222 the average nl team had an obp of 0.354 the mets on-based at 0.352 i had actually expected this to be far uglier than it appears to be...

Beltran 4.1 Wright 1.8 Feliciano 1.3 Smith 1.0 Schoeneweis 1.0 Alou 0.8

Martinez 5.6 Castillo 1.5 Schoeneweis 1.2 Mota 0.7 Beltran 0.6 Alou 0.4

Glavine 4.0 Wright 2.5 Wagner 1.3 Castillo 0.9 Milledge 0.7 Alou 0.6

if he gets in at 500, he should've been in at 499.

rob has a lot of irons in the fire, if that's him. he's got a nice little restaurant in bay shore: http://www.exploreli.com/entertainment/localguide/dining/ny-food-fdcov06,0,2166558.story?coll=ny-explore-relatedrail-promo ]Cool Water Grill, 25 Bayview Ave., Bay Shore, 631-206-0420. Owner Rob Dromerhauser, a former major league baseball player and bull-pen coach, is a personable host at this marina-side spot with a simple American seafood-slanted menu. A sesame-seared tuna appetizer special, sampled recently, was spot-on. and he's also president of american sports history inc. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot_article.asp?symbol=AMSH ]American Sports History Incorporated through its wholly owned subsidiary America Sports Academy, LLC (ASA) provides multi-sport youth instructional programs throughout Long Island, NY. Led by its President and former member of the Baltimore Orioles and New York Mets, Rob Dromerhauser. In addition, the company has focusing its efforts in developing sports related instruction and business around America's five major professional sports: baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer, and also wrestling and lacrosse. With respect to these areas, the company made investments in research and development of certain technologies; its Internet Web site, SportsInfo.com, and; Youth Academies through its subsidiary America Sports Academy, LLC offered to children ages 5-15. not sure why he'd need to go the craigs list route then... of course, that sportsinfo.com site is a shady-looking gambling-info site, with nothing to do whatsoever with sports instruction, so who knows, really.

steve, bleach =/= sexually assualting 12 and 14 year old girls.

oh, and avi me on that 2002 doubleheader. my attendance was responsible for the flaming, crashing demise of two consecutive seasons. and i was there last night. and left after the 7th. it didnt work this time.

Farmer Ted wrote: The wife got bored and made me leave after the 7th in this one. I almost divorced her. Really. http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=6321 avi me on that one. i left that one early and came home to a pleasant surprise. honestly, i'm almost to teh point where i feel as if i should leave games early, as the mets (or any home team, really) rarely win games i attend. this seems to apply to any stadium, any team, and, i'm fairly sure, any sport. if i'm in the crowd, teh home team is going down. i figure that by leaving a blowout early, i'm actually helping things. of course, i really need to go through whatever ticket stubs i have and see how my memory tracks with reality, but its pretty much a given that when i'm there, they lose. so, sorry.

Perez 4.6 Wagner 1.9 Wright 1.5 Heilman 0.9 Reyes 0.6 Beltran 0.5

Beltran 3.0 Martinez 3.0 Wagner 1.6 Alou 1.5 Feliciano 0.8 Heilman 0.7

Glavine 4.5 Wright 1.8 Wagner 1.6 Heilman 1.2 LoDuca 0.5 Green 0.4

Beltran 2.7 Sosa 2.0 Milledge 1.9 Alou 1.5 Wright 1.0 Castillo 0.9

clowns. and people who don't fear clowns.

cool. scored some tickets to tonights game from a season ticket holder who cannot go. wonder if there'll be a game to go to... this rain does not look promising!

i don't know anymore. i'm trying to split a hair too thin.