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Hank Chinaski

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  1. I like it. Mancini has a career 113 wRC+ and can play OF and 1B. Bell has a career wRC+ of 118 and can’t play in the OF, and would have cost considerably more (presumably). I like Bell more as a pure hitter but position flexibility has value and he was relatively cheap.
  2. Yes. And Bregman (125) currently has a higher wRC+ than Tucker (123).
  3. This is a reasonable expectation, but you have to keep in mind that Texas A&M’s institutional inferiority complex as it relates to the University of Texas often precludes rational action. This only became more pronounced in the Big 12 era. I know this sounds like hyperbole coming from a Texas grad, or like I’m talking about their fans/alums and not their administration…but I’m really not. They aren’t rational when it comes to UT. They are perpetually trying to get out of the UT shadow (not in athletics per se, just in general). They were going to sprint to any opportunity that ever came up to one-up UT - I can assure you of that. Again - this is a school that literally declined Texas’s offer to develop a network in partnership with them, then, when Texas did it themselves, identified the network as the “final straw” that forced their hand to leave. “Reasoning” with A&M, when you’re UT, really is easier said than done.
  4. His career is somewhat comparable to Don Mattingly’s in that he was one of the best players in the game for a short period of time early in his career (‘87-‘91) but had trouble staying healthy, which led to missed games and less power as he got older. As for being a prick, yeah, I’ve read stories that certainly indicate there’s truth to that. Also a bit of a racist, allegedly.
  5. Gotta hand it to Judge…I thought he was nuts for turning down that contract offer before the season started, given his age and injury history. Assuming he stays healthy the rest of the season, I was wrong; he’ll probably end up getting a better deal. His off-season could be fascinating. NYY will obviously have a ton of pressure to bring him back, and that’s what I’d expect to happen. But they’ll have to up the ante, and I wonder how much higher than the original offer they’re willing to go.
  6. How is summing his OBP and SLG misleading? His XBH are represented in his SLG%.
  7. 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.
  8. The Astros entered today #4 in MLB in team wRC+ (113). The offense can’t reasonably be described as “league average.”
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. …and sometimes we do, and it turns out we shouldn’t have…
  13. 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.)
  14. 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.
  15. …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.)
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Goddamnit, it presupposes that maybe they’re not morons. Hank is a moron.
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
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