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  1. DWKB

    Stagnant team

    Maybe both. Just seems like people are trying to figure out why an 88 win team isn’t a 95 win team even though they predicted the 88 win team before the season started.
  2. DWKB

    Stagnant team

    Right now the team is on pace for 88.7 wins. The amount of predictions that were dead on or less than three away make up almost all of the predictions. Everyone knew who this team was, but watching it happen in real time seems to be baffling to many all the same.
  3. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    Again, you know not of what you speak. Stick to the stands waiving the pennant and cheering “rah rah”. Stay out of the dugout and especially the FO. One should not desire to look the fool.
  4. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    Before the series started, you’d think PHI should have won last night and we should have won tonight, but baseball is funny and the opposite happened. Tomorrow favors us. Home team and better SP.
  5. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    If we go anywhere, it will be with pitching and defense. The good news is I’ve heard a lot of people say something about pitching, defense, and championships.
  6. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    I’m not trying to be funny. You posted a stat and essentially said “this matters”. The teams that excel at this stat are SDP & NYM and the team that fails the most is CHC. If the conclusion is incorrect that we should be more like SDP & NYM and less like CHC then maybe one should step back and...
  7. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    So, you’re saying we should be more like SDP & NYM and less like CHC?
  8. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    Yeah, but in LL the pitchers are just trying to get it over the plate while in MLB they are locating to try and get you to weakly fly out to LF or roll over to the right side of the IF. You won’t get the chance to go opposite field with a hard hit ball unless they make a mistake.
  9. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    I supposed it’s subjective, but I don’t know if it’s any more “too far” than seeing the 3B rush into the IF 5 feet from the plate on a bunt before contact is made. Would you also be for a line preventing them from entering the grass before contact was made? It would certainly have a chance to...
  10. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    Yes, your main idea was we failed to do much damage against a rather good starting pitcher and that we, like most teams, don’t take advantage of the shift like you’d like us to. However, most of your post was why that was and I found it to be misguided and I’ll informed. As to “obsessed”...
  11. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    I’m in favor of utilizing patterns and tendencies to position defensive players. Be that a CF shading to LF or RF, a 3B or 1B playing against the line, or something more extreme. It is to me as raw and obvious an example of “strategy” one can observe in baseball.
  12. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    The good news is you don’t need to know or keep up with the intricacies of the sport to enjoy the action and root for your team anymore than you need to know the physics of inertia and gravity to enjoy a coaster ride. :)
  13. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    There is so much to unpack. 1) Superficially, it’s sabermetrics, not sibremetrics. 2) The key things to hitting the ball are to get a high exit velocity and backspin. That makes the ball travel most and generates the most power. Whether it leaves the park or not. Even on line drives these...
  14. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    Pitchers originally threw to contact. The game changed and now they throw to deceive.
  15. DWKB

    Philadelphia Phillies @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 6 - Aug 8, 2018

    You know not of what you speak.
  16. DWKB

    SF Giants @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2018

    Man, talk about a confusing answer. No, not really a “mathematical probability” at all. Playoffs are based on odd number games because you can’t tie. Not for any other reason. The team could have gone 4-2, 5-1, or 6-0 against these two particular teams. If, if, if....
  17. DWKB

    What will become of Robbie Ray?

    His control will not get there. My personal opinion. However, the right coach might come along and change that.
  18. DWKB

    SF Giants @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2018

    Welp, that’s what BC867 predicted. Credit to him. Don’t know how it looks good on the team though.
  19. DWKB

    Zack Grienke is the NL pitcher of the month

    If Greinke is underrated then what does that make Corbin? :shock: Could you imagine a rotation of Greinke, Corbin, Bauer, and Skaggs this year? #Championship
  20. DWKB

    SF Giants @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2018

    This isn’t true. I’ve had the distinct pleasure of having him tell me I didn’t know squat about baseball.
  21. DWKB

    SF Giants @ Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2018

    You predicted a split, at home, against a team that is 10 games below .500. Somehow this is an argument FOR the team against 82’s point of us not being a playoff team.
  22. DWKB

    Should DBacks become sellers?

    It seems the FO says “No”.
  23. DWKB

    Dbacks aquire Matt Andriese

    It’s a combination of an ownership group that simply refuses to go into a rebuilding mode and a string of short term FO tenures.
  24. DWKB

    Farm System Stuff

    AA is a development league while AAA is more of an extended roster/rehab league. A young player is likely to get better instruction in AA and if he doesn’t need it, then he’s likely MLB ready.
  25. DWKB

    Most Defensive Runs Saved-2018 edition

    It was just sarcasm. I was making fun of a particular stance some on here choose to take when it suits them personally.

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