EVIL~! alkeiper

$11 Million

He is a back up, washed up 1st basemen. He hasn't done ANYTHING at the plate in the past two games. I'm just saying when he comes to bad I know he isn't going to do anything worthwhile. He faced Santana, a lefty, last night. Olerud really is a platoon hitter at this point, and he was out there because the Yanks had no better option.

MiB stated... One quibble with that. Santana allowed the least baserunners in the league, so he also has less double play opportunities than any other pitcher.

The Phillies did tend to pick up overrated pitchers, so I can't blame him for that. I dop think the effects of the ballpark are overblown.

Wednesday, Oct. 6 Houston (Clemens 18-4) at Atlanta (Wright 15-8), 4:09 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Oct. 7 Houston (Oswalt 20-10) at Atlanta (Thomson 14-8), 4:09 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Oct. 9 Atlanta (Hampton 13-9) at Houston Sunday, Oct. 10 Atlanta at Houston, if necessary Monday, Oct. 11 Houston at Atlanta, if necessary

Valenzuela pitched just one game in that series, winning in Los Angeles. Had the series gone seven games, he would have pitched game seven in NY.

I've gone over this before, so I'll give you the simple version. Jeter's batting average, on base percentage, and slugging percentage are almost exactly the same in the regular season as in the postseason.

Al's gonna yell at you, dude. Not at all, because it illustrates what I've said many times. Clutch hitting is not a measureable skill.

Fear the CHECKLIST~! selects Shareef Abdur-Rahim.

I think he's talking about Joe Torre.

I gotta wonder why the Twins play Shannon Stewart in the field and DH Lew Ford.

Yes, most ballots have been sent in at this point.

Tuesday, Oct. 5 Los Angeles (Perez 7-6) at St. Louis (W.Williams 11-8), 1:09 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Oct. 7 Los Angeles (Weaver 13-13) at St. Louis (Marquis 15-7), 8:19 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Oct. 9 St. Louis (Morris 15-10) at Los Angeles (Lima 13-5) Sunday, Oct. 10 St. Louis (Suppan 16-9) at Los Angeles, if necessary Monday, Oct. 11 Los Angeles at St. Louis, if necessary

Tuesday, Oct. 5 Boston (Schilling 21-6) at Anaheim (Washburn 11-8), 4:09 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Oct. 6 Boston (Martinez 16-9) at Anaheim (Colon 18-12), 10:09 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Oct. 8 Anaheim (Escobar 11-12) at Boston (Arroyo 10-9 or Wakefield 12-10), 4:09 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Oct. 9 Anaheim at Boston, if necessary Sunday, Oct. 10 Boston at Anaheim, if necessary

Tuesday, Oct. 5 Minnesota (Santana 20-6) at New York (Mussina 12-9), 8:19 p.m. (FOX) Wednesday, Oct. 6 Minnesota (Radke 11-8) at New York (Lieber 14-8), 7:09 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Oct. 8 New York (Hernandez 8-2 or Brown 10-6) at Minnesota (Silva 14-8), 8:09 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Oct. 9 New York at Minnesota, if necessary Sunday, Oct. 10 Minnesota at New York, if necessary

I read the article with the Santana/Schilling quote in the Philly Inquirer yesterday. I think it is apparent Kruk doesn't really feel all that strongly about wins = Cy Young award. He just wants to see his former teammate finally win a Cy Young Award. Nothing wrong with that, but it is not the cutting edge analysis I want to see on the most popular baseball discussion show on tv.

"I think he’s going to win the Cy Young. I know Johan Santana’s having a great year, striking people out, leading the league in ERA. But I was always under the impression that whoever won the most was the best pitcher. Maybe I’m stupid for thinking that. I always thought the game’s about winning. Cy Young got 500-some wins - nobody needs to say, 'He had a good ERA and he struck out some guys.'" "As far the the debate over the real pitching awards, the Cy Young, a couple quick thoughts on that. Everyone knows that they're going to give it to Roger Clemens, but is he the best pitcher in the NL? I don't think so. Sure, Rocket is great, Randy Johnson has been the most dominant. It's certainly not his fault his team stinks."

Cameron is a fairly decent hitter with some pop and speed. Ordonez was one of the worst hitters to ever have a career.

The ironic thing about this whole situation is that Harry Carey first came to the Cubs because the Cardinals felt he wasn't supportive enough of the team.

I think Win Shares deserves a look. With conventional stats, the problem is they look at players as individuals. Since each team records 27 outs a game, the statistics have to go somewhere. This means there is no difference between a good team and a bad team. Obviously bad teams have bad hitting, or bad pitching. Doesn't it stand to reason that they have bad fielding as well? Win Shares works backwards, assuming a team that allows a lot of runs has bad fielding, and vice versa. If there is a good fielder on the team, the stats adjust for it. I think this results in a tremendous improvement in fielding analysis. A few examples... One, traditional fielding statistics would show a good first baseman as making alot of assists. But a fielder like Steve Garvey would turn out sub-par because he would make easy plays himself, rather than flip to the pitcher. Win Shares points out the error in this thinking, and uses the assist statistics of the rest of the fielders to determine how many putouts were because of the first baseman. This results in players like Garvey, usually derided in fielding stats, appear as good as their reputation. Second, Total Baseball and Pete Palmer claimed their analysis showed Napolean Lajoie was one of the greatest fielders of all time. This despite the fact that his fielding was never especially notable at the time. James' system shows that Lajoie made all the discretionary plays, such as covering the bag during a steal attempt. James notes that Cleveland's shortstops at the time had particularly low putout totals at the time. Win Shares adjusts for this. Finally, most sabermetric fielding stats rated Johnny Bench as not a particularly good fielder. Win Shares is the first to rate Bench as what he was, an excellent defensive catcher.

I'll tell you what, Al without the Checklist is making some questionable picks. Why Chris Webber? Why Al Why did you pick the man who is the Grant Hill of the West? Because in order to win this league, I felt I needed to take a risk to grab a potential impact player. Chris Webber is indeed a risk, but if he plays all year he'll be a HUGE contributor to my team.

The season was definately the fault of the general manager. Getting rid of Carlos Guillen hurt the team, Scott Spiezio was a flop, they lost Mike Cameron, etc. They also had a sub-par season from Bret Boone, Edgar Martinez aged, and Rafael Soriano missed most of the season.

I'd call the Boston Red Sox the A.L. favorites, but it is not overwhelming. Their Runs scored and allowed is better than anyone else in the league.

Shit. I'm at college and the checklist is at home. Well, I'm going to have to take a chance to win, so here it goes. Fear the CHECKLIST~! selects Chris Webber, of the Sacramento Kings.

Excellent. We have our competition.