Category Archives: Quotes
Via Nate.
DePodesta’s entire chat with Baseball Prospectus is worth reading, but this quote caught my eye. I’ve noted numerous times that I struggle with xFIP. I have no trouble believing that most pitchers’ home runs per flyball rates will normalize over time, but I find it hard to assume that the same will be the case for all pitchers. In other words, I wonder if there are some guys, like Johan Santana over the past couple of seasons, that figure out a way to induce consistently weak fly-ball contact. Seems like DePodesta implies here that Young has.
Excellent. Via Jonah Keri.
Well that’s nice to hear. Obviously the proof will be in the proverbial pudding, but “a whole body of work over a period of time” doesn’t sound like Luis Hernandez to me.
This. Good read from Graz.
It seems to me like the long-term health benefits aspect of the NFL labor negotiations should be way more important than anyone is making it out to be. As it currently stands, players are covered for five years after they retire. The injuries they sustain playing football don’t magically go away at that point.
Please read Roth’s write-up of the NFL labor negotiations.
Via HardballTalk. This is a huge pet peeve of mine. We are Mets fans. But we are not the Mets.
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