Speaking of ESPN writers books, how is Bill Simmon's book? Is it mainly for Red Sox fans or would someone who hates the Red Sox but loves his column and writing style like it?
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Speaking of ESPN writers books, how is Bill Simmon's book? Is it mainly for Red Sox fans or would someone who hates the Red Sox but loves his column and writing style like it?Originally posted by Jay BilasThe question isn't whether UConn belongs with the elites, but over the last 20 years, whether the rest of the college basketball elite belongs with UConn -
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He also has by far more walks than anyone else to ever pitch, and his ERAs were pretty mediocre when adjusted for ballpark and era.Comment
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292 losses and 8 losing seasons don't exactly reflect well on a career (although I myself don't put a whole lot of stock into W-L).Overall satisfaction also makes the decline!!!!!!!!!!!!Comment
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This wins to lost thing is overrated to me. Who cares how many loses he has. How many wins did he have? I'll take a guy with 300 wins and 200 loses compare to a guy with 200 wins and 100 loses. I just see it different. That is just like Ruth being the one of the greatest HR hitters and yet he has struckeout more times then anybody.Comment
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Personally Wins and Losses are pretty useless as a stat for a pitcher. The example has been used many times, but Pitcher A can get a loss giving up 1 run over 9 innings and Pitcher B can get a win giving up 8 runs over 6 innings. Which pitcher had better stats? Pitcher A of course. However, Pitcher B got the W because his team did more for him. So using your 300/200 200/100 W/L ratio doesn't really mean much in terms of overall pitcher ability IMO.Comment
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Well for the bulk of his career he didn't play with great teams. In fact if you look at his prime years age wise he played with a craptacular Angels squad that only had 2 winning seasons in his 8 years there.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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This wins to lost thing is overrated to me. Who cares how many loses he has. How many wins did he have? I'll take a guy with 300 wins and 200 loses compare to a guy with 200 wins and 100 loses. I just see it different. That is just like Ruth being the one of the greatest HR hitters and yet he has struckeout more times then anybody.
Babe Ruth is 83rd on the all-time strikeouts list. Reggie Jackson is first.Comment
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OK maybe now, but there was a time that he had more then anybody. But I could wrong. Look at the years that the 82 batters played. I thought I read some where at the time he ended his career he had the HR recond and Stikeout record too.Comment
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I don't know, all I do know is 7 No No's and 5000 Strikeouts is pretty amazing to me.Comment
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Pretty much everyone who wins the Gold Glove gets it based on reputation. It's one of the worst awards in sports.Member of The OS Baseball Rocket Scientists AssociationComment
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Why do you think it's an awful indicator? Not saying I think you are wrong, but I don't think that it's that terrible to atleast get a guesstimate of the best player by looking at who has the fewest errors. I would think it should atleast go into the decision for gold gloves.Comment
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