spykelee wrote:Mustard, you don't understand basic communication, because if you did, then you wouldn't come across as an ass all the time. And there's no point arguing about it because it's so blantly obvious, that even you should be able to see it.
My main concern is about being right. The rest is just irrelevant noise to me.
Those stats are all fascinating and such and thanks for elaborating but personally, I find all the time in baseball there's wayyyy too much emphasis put on a guys stats. I played baseball at a pretty high level for a number of years. Alot of my judgements on players are passed just by watching them, and watching Brandon League was/is embarassing and always has been.
Once again...you don't have any idea what you are talking about. Bad luck led to his high ERA this year. It's a fact. It isn't an opinion.
No doubt he's got the stuff to be absolutely dominant. But those outings have always been few and far between. His whole career has been wildly inconsistent and ineffective. He struggles to hit spots. You don't see Bradon League get alot of checked swings, and alot of weakly hit feeble balls, and for a guy with all his movement, you should see that all the time. I'm not a guy that judges people off stats and percentages and such. I watch them consistently and pass judgement on them. Brandon League is a terriable reliever that's never going to put it together.
He put it together in a huge way this year, and had some of the best peripherals in baseball for relievers. There's no reason to think his bad luck will continue in the future.
And League gets checked swings and feeble ground balls all the time, so I'm pretty sure you are just selectively remembering what you want to remember (that's the beauty of stats...they are completely objective).
I don't care how much you chastsize me, and how many numbers you put my way.
If you won't even take the time to understand any of the things I'm telling you, then I have no sympathy for your situation.
Perhaps I'm old school, but I like i said, i don't pass judgement on any player off of numbers. As Sherman Hamilton always says, numbers don't lie, but they don't tell the whole truth either.
Citing Sherman Hamilton in an argument isn't the best way to get your point across.
Mariano Rivera, Broxton and Pabelpon and Brandon League... i'd certainly say there's something, or perhaps someone that doesn't belong there, and i don't care what the numbers suggest. Anyone should be able to see that.
Yes...the bad luck that led to League's ERA being much higher than theirs. The point was that their skills are similar (though Rivera and Broxton have better K/BB ratios).
And it was Chad Qualls, btw. Papelbon's skills regressed significantly this season.