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Hank Chinaski

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  1. How is summing his OBP and SLG misleading? His XBH are represented in his SLG%.
  2. Is it me or is the suggestion that the University of Texas (or anyone) is paying teenagers $100k apiece not to go swimming at an apartment complex in College Station completely fucking batshit crazy? It is entirely possible that I am naive about this stuff, but this doesn’t seem like a way that any reasonable person would choose to spend money. It’s short-sighted, unsustainable, and the value for what you’re getting with that money doesn’t seem to be remotely worth the cost. I don’t care how much money someone has, they generally want value in return commensurate with what they are spending; value is relative, but I can’t see how this checks that box. Maybe I’m the dummy.
  3. The Astros entered today #4 in MLB in team wRC+ (113). The offense can’t reasonably be described as “league average.”
  4. I don’t understand this point. He can only add value through his hitting, his fielding and his base running. That’s all any player (non-pitcher) can do. He’s added a ton of value in his career - more than any other player in MLB since his career started. The statistics just describe the value.
  5. I feel like I need to stand up for Chas. He now has 559 PAs in MLB (entering tonight), approaching a full seasons’s worth. These are his numbers: .248/.322/.441; 24 HR; 21 2B; 113 wRC+; 3.4 fWAR He’s actually been an above-average offensive and overall player. I don’t love him in the leadoff spot, and I don’t necessarily think he needs to be in the lineup every day, but he has been a good player so far. He certainly hasn’t been a liability.
  6. I’ll have you know that I personally talked to Charlie Pallilo about acquiring Carlos Gomez that summer. I was pretty proud of myself when the trade went down for my foresight; the pride quickly turned to shame, then extreme anger, then shame again.
  7. …and sometimes we do, and it turns out we shouldn’t have…
  8. So we’ve gone from “wait ‘til next year” to “wait ‘til the year after next year!” Also, making predictions on college football 2 seasons into the future in the age of the transfer portal, NIL, etc…well, good luck with that. (But yeah, I get that he’s selling hope to a bunch of rubes hungry for it.)
  9. The Astros do this every year - play shitty against shitty teams. In August 2017 they got swept by a shitty White Sox team and then lost the next 2 against the Rangers. Last year I think they lost the season series with Detroit and tied with Baltimore. They’ll lose more than they should against the A’s and Angels and D-Backs over the next two months. Baseball.
  10. …says the grad/fan of the school that last won a conference title 24 years ago, and a national title 83 years ago. (And if his implication is that this “fundamental difference” goes beyond the schools’ football programs…well he’d struggle mightily to support that argument too, though I’d enjoy seeing his attempt.)
  11. Their collective ability to commit and intertwine all the known formal and informal logical/argumentative fallacies - which should be mutually exclusive, but somehow they’ve managed to combine them - really is astounding.
  12. So it’s basically like how in Idiocracy, everyone thinks the Luke Wilson character is a homosexual because he “talks smart.” Yeah, that sounds about right.
  13. Goddamnit, it presupposes that maybe they’re not morons. Hank is a moron.
  14. It’s hilarious. To then, the entirety of the program (and the university) is based on the most recent 12 games and absolutely nothing else. The program’s history of success, the location, the school, the NIL opportunities, the exposure…they simply pretend that none of that exists. I always assume that they don’t really believe this stuff, but what that presupposes is…maybe they’re just morons?
  15. My new favorite bit of idiocy is how they have all concluded that Texas is very obviously paying all these guys illegally, because it’s the only way that Texas could recruit such a class. Then they talk about how the Texas class is shaping up to be about as highly ranked as its last few classes have been.
  16. I don’t know if they want more scoring per se - I think they want more hits, they don’t want every ground ball to be an out. I was watching the 1992 ALCS last night while trying to go to sleep (I know, I’m a degenerate) and the game was so different - grounders up the middle were hits, guys tried to steal bases a lot, etc. I think the thinking is that disallowing the shift would get us back to a little more of that. I don’t know if it’ll work or if we should try to make it work, but that seems to be the idea.
  17. Haha come on…they can’t be this oblivious, nobody lacks self-awareness to this degree…this has to be one of us writing this, right? I mean, you couldn’t describe the entire history of their program better in a single sentence if you tried.
  18. Have fun at the game. Oh, and do me a favor and remind all the imbeciles around you that Kyle Tucker was in the minors in 2017 as they’re all booing him.
  19. I don’t think so; I’m just speculating that a team that has an interest in signing him to a megadeal may be more incentivized to trade for him, so that they get a 2-year head start in trying to negotiate the megadeal. For example, if you’re the Yankees, would you be willing to spend a little more in prospect capital to acquire him, knowing that if you don’t, the Mets might trade for him and then have exclusive ability to extend him for the next 2 years…in which case you may never get the opportunity to sign him. Maybe not, but it seems like that would have some value to them. But yeah, Washington shouldn’t care; they should obviously get as much as they can, whether that’s from the Mets or the Yankees or the Rays.
  20. Ok, counterpoints: 1) Soto is 23. This isn’t anything like giving a 31 year old Albert Pujols a 10-year deal. Signing him now gets you what figures to be the entire prime of his career. 2) you have to consider just how good of a hitter the guy is. What he’s done at such a young age puts him in the most elite of elite company in the history of baseball. 3) Trout’s deal isn’t the reason that the Angels can’t get out of their own way. They paid a ton for Rendon despite his injury history…and lo and behold, he’s been injured for most of his time there. They took on Justin Upton’s contract. They paid geriatric Pujols $30 million for several years. The Trout deal is fine, it’s all the other dumb decisions they’ve made that have been the problem. The Rangers got lambasted for the A-Rod deal, but it turned out that that wasn’t a bad contract at all. $25 million at the end of that deal was not $25 million at the beginning, just as $40 million in 2022 won’t be $40 million in 2037. Signing Soto doesn’t guarantee a team will become a winner; any club will obviously have to have a good team around him. And I totally agree that there is a good argument to be made that tying up that much money in any player is too risky. But given the Tatis and Lindor contracts…why wouldn’t Soto ask for more? That’s just the market. If it were me, I’d probably not tie up that much money into one guy. But I don’t think it’s necessarily foolish to do so if you are, say, Cohen and the Mets. That’s a good team, and a guy like Soto in that lineup makes them a lot better. It takes some spotlight away from the Yankees. And it doesn’t necessarily cripple them from a payroll perspective- they may decide they’ll just pay the luxury tax for a while like the Dodgers have. Again, what I find more interesting is whether they’re willing to pay Soto, the luxury tax, and the prospects it would take to get him now and start negotiating. Now you’re talking about paying him way more than the $500 million.
  21. It is going to be fascinating. If a team trades for him, they’ll have two years to try to sign him to an extension. So maybe the Yankees or the Mets or the Dodgers are willing to give him $500mm…but are they willing to give him that money AND the kind of prospects it’ll take to pull off a trade for him? That’s a fuckton of value. So what’s the value tied to being the only team who can negotiate with him for a while?
  22. Davis, Strawberry and Bo. Straw should have hit 600 HR but couldn’t keep his shit together. Bo’s career(s) would have been fascinating to watch on many levels, as he was still developing as a baseball player. Those guys playing (full, healthy seasons) in the 90s offense era would have been great.
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