Glad to see the Miami Fish are already writing poems and singing songs for Mr. Eo Evaldi. His new team had better things to say about him than Don Baseball ever did. The Dodgers have to make that trade. Fine. But the Stat Boys never gave EO his due.
Well he doesn't strike out enough people to be good. Idiots.
He only has two pitches. Idiots.
If they did their scouting somewhere other than on BR looking at one dimensional statistics out there on AssClown Island, well, .... EO obviously has electric stuff and is developing in an obvious learning curve. Making judgements out of context using static stats is, well, unsound. EO may never get there but he definitely has a high ceiling. Check out the Miami Herald on EO.
CRUUUUUUZZZZ.
Ooops, Luis just booted one. I hope that doesn't start the cry for Hanley moving to shortstop. Luis Cruz is yet another Dodger not getting his just accolades from the Dodger Fans - Stat Boy Division. His defense is steady and his offense, well, for shortstops, it's not bad at all.
Stat Boys freak out if an OBP falls below .300. If Luis had 6 more walks mixed into his small sample of stats the Stat Boys would be drooling all over him. Those 6 walks wouldn't have meant much in the overall scheme of things but the key hits he's provided have been monumental in the run-free zone the Dodgers have been living in.
A shortstop with a .721 OPS is often revered. Because of the thickness of the stat boy goggles they want to move him out of the lineup. Sheesh.
CHADDDDDDDDD
Yes, the "Casual Fans'' have had a problem with Mr. C Bills. I don't mind Chad. He is what he is. But he got into the 8th inning yesterday and he only had two K's. No walks. The game before another good outing. Four K's. No walks.
One of the most over-used stats at AssClown Island is the K/9. Not that it's not a good indicator. It's the belief you can't be good without it. Walks are by far more important. If you're not walking people you always have a chance. If you're walking a lot of people you have no chance.
So Bills gets to the 8th with only a couple K's. The calls from you know where sound like Oh he must have got lucky. Will the noise never stop?.
LUCCCCKKKKY STAATTTS
If the "Lucky Stats'' are based on subjective and generalized calls by statisticians how are they worth anything meaningful. If that's all you got you might as well stick with "luck evens out."
For some reason I find your blog posts incredibly hilarious. I genuinely find it funny the way you snarkily attack the din of the overly sabermetric-minded baseball bloggers. You seem to put a lot of work into writing this blog even though you hardly ever get any comments, so I thought I'd let you know I read everything you write and appreciate the effort. Quickly becoming one of my favorite dodger sites!
ReplyDeleteJust so you know I only print comments I want to print. My purposely-over-the-top, comedy-oriented musings are not going to appeal to many folks. Might see it as mean. I'm just trying to emulate the Stat Boys. Problem is they don't realize how hilarious they are.
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