Archive for March, 2010

The long awaited collaboration between The Fightins’ Dash Treyhorn and myself.

Music Credit: The Blood Brothers – Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers

Projected to hit .400/.600/.800 by PECOTA

*Warning: If you’re not a follower of fangraphs, BPro, THT, etc, then this post is not for you.

Nothing annoys me more than people who can’t stop felating their proprietary projection system. This annoys me especially when that proprietary system has a terrible recent track record. To be fully clear, I’m not complaining about authors who use a projection as part of their piece. If I’m writing an article about Carlos Ruiz, it might be useful to say that despite public sentiment, a wide range of projection systems expect Ruiz to be slightly worse in ‘10 than he was in ;09.  And then I’d go on to cite why I agree/disagree, harp on the importance of catcher defense, and speculate about Chooch’s favorite flavor of ice cream.  That’s fine. No, what I’m complaining about is when that projection IS the piece.

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The Next Freddy Garcia?

In a wonderful turn of events, the Mets finally lived up to their guido following, having Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino throw out the first pitch back on the 24th.  Like his steroid festered dong (and the Mets…zing!), his pitch came up a bit limp.

He went on Twitter with the lowdown:

Awesome experience meeting all the mets n David WRight – My throw game will admit was a lil off lol.

What… Snookie wasn’t available?

Never Let Go, Bobby

Continuing along the wonderful offseason journey that was the NL East, we stop by the ATL to check out the Redskins Braves.  It’s been a sad state in Atlanta, since they finally fell off their perch after their magical 14 year run at the top of the world.  However, after piecing together possibly the most retarded offseason of any team in the NL East, they find themselves scrambling for a trip to Mediocrityville.

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I'm not gay, I'm not Dominican

For those of you who aren’t daily readers of Deadspin, I highly suggest that you start making daily visits.  Their best postings, in my opinion, are simply posting e-mails of other Deadspin faithful.

I’m not sure if what came to my mind after reading this story is considered a violation, but the first thought that came to my head was “I wonder how many dicks Jose Reyes has sucked”.

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Yes, more boobies.

Yesterday, I went over the fantasy values of the Phillies’ position players. Today, a look at the pitching staff. To reiterate: For purposes of this exercise, I’m assuming 5×5 scoring, as well as standard auction budgets ($11-12 per roster spot). Adjust accordingly for your own league’s rules, and remember – it’s often more advantageous to let a homer reach or overbid for a Phillie.

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Does Central PA really deserve that?

Hi everyone, today is your chance to help fancy-pants saberist Tom Tango.  Tom likes to poll fan opinion on things because it turns out that when you poll a whole bunch of novices about something, their average prediction is often more accurate than an expert.   Today Tango wants the fans to predict playing time for their favorite teams.  Below is the link to the Phillies prediction page, it’s pretty intuitive from there.  So take 2 minutes and make your best guesses.

http://www.tangotiger.net/survey/index2.php?teamid=143&team=Philadelphia%20Phillies

Speaking of fantasy...

Fantasy baseball veterans are all too familiar with the concept of homers. No, not home runs – the guy in your league who will massively overpay for a player on his favorite team. There’s always at least one. More likely than not, you’re in a league with people who are Phillies fans like yourself, which makes the question of how to value our beloved Fightins’ players a tricky one.

Of course, you can also use known homer tendencies to your advantage. For example, a league I’ve been in since 2003 with a bunch of people I went to high school with is chock-full of Phillies homers. Knowing that, during our auction draft last night, I purposely nominated as many Phillies as possible. J.A. Happ went for a ridiculous $26 (by comparison, I landed Clayton Kershaw for $25 and Ricky Nolasco for $18) while I watched and laughed maniacally. Utley, Howard, Werth, and Hamels were under keeper protection, but I have no doubt that they would have inspired similarly insane bidding.

In this two-part series, I’ll be telling you what kind of fantasy contribution to expect from our red-pinstriped heroes in 2010, as well as what you should be prepared to pay – and when to say “Enough is enough,” and let some homer have his prize. After the jump…

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…this is a featured headline on their ‘Official’ homepage:

Francouer Walks Twice, Injures Hamstring, Pride. Mets Staff Says Out 2-26 Weeks

LINK

The comments actually have people talking about how great a ballplayer he is.  Sure, if you compare Jeff Francoeur to me , he’s a damn good ballplayer.  When you compare him to say…I don’t know, actual major league players…he’s definitely well below average.  Mets+Jeff Francouer+website= Mega Fail

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I just ate a heaping mound of steamed broccoli with cheese sauce and the size of one of said broccoli was reminiscent of Placido Polanco’s huge dome. It was then I realized I still hadn’t done my WAR predictions for the line-up yet. So lets have at it, shall we?

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