MLB Offseason 2014-15: Wait, pitchers and catchers report WHEN?
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I'm great at "self evaluation". Did I say I'm putting any money on it?
Just starting up some good ol' banter, it a baseball thread.
Hell, we can't even seem to keep our 1st baseman healthy.
The Yankees are getting a bit younger, but the change that needs to take place can't happen in one year.
I think we could have a top 10 defense but a bottom ten offense.... but hey, Didi and Drew might figure out how to hit...
Sub .500 record in the play-offs and 0&2 in the most recent World Series probably hurt the "value" too.
Any idea what the Cubs' offer was? (assuming there was an actual offer)
Here is a comprehensive list of teams for whom Shields is not a huge upgrade over the fifth-best starter:
Here is a comprehensive list of owners who can’t actually afford Shields:
If the Yankees are serious about contending this year they should have signed him to that contract weeks ago. (So should every other team in baseball.) Shields is real good. He hasn’t missed a turn in eight years, has been above-average in seven of eight, and good to great in the last four, and the best predictor of pitcher health is past health. Shields is about as good as you could hope for when saying, "Boy, it sure would be nice to have a number-two pitcher who is basically guaranteed to give me seven good innings every fifth day."
I'll repeat this until you actually listen -- pitcher wins and losses do not fucking matter. A pitcher by definition cannot win a game on his own, because in order to win a game the team must score more runs than the other guys. He can lose a game on his own, but nothing he does can actually influence the "scoring runs" part. Shields' K/9, BB/9, HR/9, WHIP and ERA+ would be welcome in literally every rotation in the league.
Yeah, the pitcher has nothing to do with how many runs are given up... esssssh... To say the pitcher shouldn't be considered WRT wins is like saying the quarterback in the NFL or the goalie in hockey don't fucking matter.
I think your view about pitchers and wins is wrong. I looked at his "numbers". "Big game James" hasn't been so "big game" lately.
"and the best predictor of pitcher health is past health" .... don't agree. Look at CC.... look at Tanaka before the Yankees got him.... by that logic neither would ever miss anything.
I'm glad the Yankees didn't spring for this one. Our luck he's break by the all-star break.
A pitcher by definition cannot win a game because he only impacts one half of the game. I'll continue to repeat this until you stop clinging to an outdated antiquated statistic popularized only because Henry Chadwick thought of it a hundred and twenty years ago. A pitcher win or a loss tells us nothing of his actual performance. Case in point: Jeff Samardzija was one of the top three pitchers in baseball in the first few months of the year. Despite throwing lights-out, sub-2.00 ERA baseball, he didn't get his second win until May 26 because the Cubs were and are a fucking tire fire.
Wins literally tell us nothing. A 20-win pitcher with a WHIP of 2 and an ERA+ of 80 is a worse pitcher than a guy with ten wins but an ERA+ of 135 and a sub-1 WHIP.
Seems like competitive AAV at 3 years 60M.
Heyman says Cubs offered 3 years plus vesting option late.
I'm shocked (well, not shocked, but saddened) that they didn't go into the 70s. It's not like they don't have the money. Unless they're planning on aiming the money cannon at some permutation of Price / Zimmermann / Cueto / Latos / Fister next winter.
...or Moncada?
The Cubs seem to be committed to running with Castro, which is just incredibly moronic, but they also did cough up Samardzija for Addison Russell, which tells me they feel their middle infield is set.
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Zimmerman would be nice.
iFA spending restrictions mean the Cubs could not sign him until July. (Which is possible but unlikely)
Any particular reason why the next few ASGs are all being held at National League parks?
They used to purposefully alternate and now they're getting away from that to more of a 'bid' type structure.
^Yeah, apart from Target Field and new Yankee Stadium, all the new parks dating back to the beginning of this century have been built in the NL. It makes sense to highlight them.
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