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Everyone just assumes he will be happy DHing, but during the playoffs he made it clear that he wants to be a positional player, and he recognizes...
Don't worry MSN - I like your discussion - you are smart, have passion, and no hard feelings for you guys making arguments for your favorite...
WAR doesn't do what you think it does, the biz of baseball stats promotes a lot of fallacies in thinking - sabermetrics as an industry is fraught...
That's all right, MDA will be fired by summer, Morey will be fired this summer, and players will be demanding trades - let the show begin - the...
OTE="Houstunna, post: 12826963, member: 57411"]Dead Ball was closer to 1880 than 1980. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-ball_era The fact...
Dead ball era defined Clueless Homer 1986 (NL AL) Mike Schmidt+ (PHI) 37 Jesse Barfield (TOR) 40 1985 (NL AL) Dale Murphy (ATL) 37 Darrell...
There is no hope for the Rockets this year, they have two stat chasing players that play no defense, harden has gone back to his old ways without...
Maybe you guys will start learning about the history of baseball before you were born - thus, recency bias.
Clueless Homers, you said 58 right, I easily accumulated 105 in very short order. Therefore, 105-58=47 Quit talking and start doing, take 47...
Yeah I noticed just from the discussion here that Astros fans really focus on this comparison, and I wasn't even going to include Thomas, but I...
You guys never thought this through, I could easily add another 25 players who were better hitters in early baseball, sure they don't have a lot...
But I know a guy like Mike Schmidt would have put up much bigger numbers playing in Bagwell's era.
I didn't penalize Bagwell for using steroids, he just isn't that special even among his own steroid brethren - there are other players during this...
I looked up the offensive stats, Thomas has better numbers, you mean when bagwell couldn't throw the ball from first anymore because of his bum...
This Kobe stuff is getting way over the top, shows the power of playing in LA for 20 years, but get a grip, the guy overused his helicopter to...
1. Joe Morgan 2. Pete Rose 3. Justin Verlander 4. Hank Aaron 5. Reggie Jackson 6. Barry Bonds 7. Babe...
Georges St-Pierre never fails a ped test , but i have my skeptical doubts via the eye test.
There are a couple guys I would like to have tested with "Olympic Standard" just to know whether they were clean or not for their entire careers-...
Wish the NBA had Olympic standard testing the last 15 years, just like MMA discovered most of the fighters were on supplements when they made the...
Ted Williams, Ken Griffey, Tony Gwynn, Ichiro, Ty Cobb yeah those guys are all ahead of Baggy
