Out of the Past

Regardless, it's over. Let's move on. It'll be over once the damage done to Hanley's reputation is undone so in other words this will never be over.

Jacory was amazing. He's so accurate and has a nice touch on his passes making them easy to catch.

I like Hyde but this was a very weak column. He says no Marlin has defended Hanley but that's not true. Baker defended Hanley. He questions whether Hanley is faking the injury without anything to back-up why Hanley supposedly lied. Hanley is the guy who gets attacked and he ends up as the bad guy in the story. Amazing. Unfortunately from here through the rest of his career Hanley will have the label of a player who fakes injuries. Makes me think of Clemente's career. People always accused him of faking injuries because the injuries he had never seemed obvious, so it was easy to question, and he couldn't really defend himself in english too well. Back in the 60's the black Latin players were stereotyped as injury faking lazy players and things haven't changed much in 40 years. I can't wait to read Le Batard's take on this. I'm expecting a grand slam... at least I hope so.

I like Hyde but this was a very weak column. He says no Marlin has defended Hanley but that's not true. Baker defended Hanley. He questions whether Hanley is faking the injury without anything to back-up why Hanley supposedly lied. Hanley is the guy who gets attacked and he ends up as the bad guy in the story. Amazing. Unfortunately from here through the rest of his career Hanley will have the label of a player who fakes injuries.

Possibly, but if he was indeed 90%, then how could he not play in the middle of the playoff race? I'm sure Fredi would have put him in there if he was 90%. The only logical options I can think of are that he really was 10%; or, the rest of his body was 100%, but his hamstring was only 10% recovered (this is odd, I know, but it is a bit different than the 1st situation); or, he just has absolutely no command of this aspect of the language, and he is neither 10% nor 90% but instead somewhere in between, and he just didn't know how to properly quantify it. Whatever the percentage once Hanley spoke to Fredi Fredi decided Hanley couldn't play. I guess Fredi is not in the Hanley is faking an injury camp.

Now Yahoo sports has a big column on the front of the MLB page blasting Hanley for the supposed lack of effort. I think Hanley does pretty good for a lazy guy who doesn't care about winning. http://sports.yahoo....=yhoo&type=lgns It's actually a really good read and along with Manny Navarro's morning Herald piece, is an interesting look inside the clubhouse. Fascinating too is everywhere you look it seems Wes Helms is in the center of it all. Maybe just maybe the front office knew what they were doing contrary to the cat calls and fun made by some here about veteran presence and downplaying its importance, because it certainly appears "Uncle Wes" is the glue holding things together. Well I didn't care for the article. Actually the most interesting thing about all this is that Hanley got nominated for the Roberto Clemente award (or whatever it's called) on the same day he had to put up with the same sterotypical crap Clemete put up throughout his career.

To start, he has a .253 BABIP. If you think that just shows how great he has been this year, it doesn't. He has a relatively high LD%, and he has a FB% that is the 4th highest in the NL. And you can't counter with the argument that he has a high HR/FB%, because his is actually pretty low. Even though it's low, he is still giving up 1.02 HR/9 (17 in just under 150 IP.) He also hasn't been a big strikeout guy this year, and he hasn't been a low walk guy either, creating his sub-par 2.00 K/BB. As of now, he has a 4.32 FIP, and, as a result of all his LDs and FBs, he has a 4.91 tRA. To add to that, he has the highest LOB% in the MLB. He's been getting lucky this year, but I wouldn't expect an ERA under four for him next season. Are you talking about Happ? His LD% is 13th in the NL and is 1.2% below the NL average.

Now Yahoo sports has a big column on the front of the MLB page blasting Hanley for the supposed lack of effort. I think Hanley does pretty good for a lazy guy who doesn't care about winning.

I don't get what the problem is. Helms seems to have taken some of the young guys like CC and BC under his wing and they were just playing with him.

So he should have lied when asked why he didn't want to come here?

If the budget is $40 million then trade Cantu, Uggla and Hermida and don't resign N. Johnson. Uggla is the only good player out of the four and none of them would "outperform" those salaries.

http://blogs.sun-sen...rbal-barbs.html Hanley Ramirez is at odds with double play partner Dan Uggla and other teammates over Ramirez's percieved lack of desire and commitment to winning.Uggla also accused Ramirez of not caring because he's already secured a $70 million contract. Ramirez and Uggla openly argued in the clubhouse about why Ramirez really exited Tuesday's rain delayed game in the fourth inning. Ramirez complained about teammates showing him up when he came out because of cramping in his left hamstring. Uggla admitted to being among those players that threw up their arms in resignation. Ramirez is hitless in his last 14 at-bats and has stuggled recently with runners in scoring position, going 2 for his last 17. Ramirez has no doubt some teammates feel like he faked the injury to preserve his National League-leading batting average, a claim he feels is insulting. This is ridiculous. I wonder who the other morons were.

I may be wrong but I think the reason Hammer barely played early in the season was because of the manager's decision and not injuries.

It's based mainly off of opportunities, and is dependent on many other factors, which is why it shouldn't be used when evaluating a player. If we would have put Coghlan, Ross, Hermida, etc. in the 4th spot, all of them would probably have just as many, if not more RBIs. You may wanna go back and read message No. 52.

What is ISO supposed to measure and what's supposed to be good or bad?

Lincecum and Volstad are not in the same league. Lincecum was projected by scouts to be a star and Volstad was projected by scouts to be a middle of the rotation guy at best.

The difference between the rebate and the fair market value of the clunker should be taxable income because it's essentially a gift from people who pay taxes but it looks like they'll get screwed if they make the entire amount taxable. This will be a nightmare for some people.

With 35 games left to play being behind 4.5 games in the Wild Card race does not seem so difficult to overcome. But when you take a closer look, it will be very difficult for the Marlins to pull this one off. Assuming that the Rockies will only win half of their remaining games, the Marlins will have to win 23 of the remaining 35 games in order to make the playoffs. The Rockies playing .500 ball and the Marlins going 23-12 doesn't sound very realistic to me, but I'm still hoping for a bit of a miracle. The strength of their remaining schedule is .498 and ours is .473. This is taking into account home / road splits. Ignoring home / road splits it's .483 for them and .480 for us.

To tax them is the fair thing to do however this comes as a surprise to most people. The administration should have made this clear. The media should have as well but they were too busy cheerleading.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574374500451334282.html I don't know if this is true. I hope not. =========================== To supervise future interrogations, the administration is creating something called a High Value Detainee Interrogation Group. Interrogation techniques will be limited to those in the Army Field Manual or that are "noncoercive," which suggests more constrained than a big-city police department. Authority is being moved from the CIA to the FBI. This means that the class of person who blows up skyscrapers, American embassies or the USS Cole would spend less time under a bare light bulb than a domestic robbery suspect.

I can stand Michael Kay but I cannot listen to Ken Singleton or the White Sox guys. Singleton does play-by-play on some Yankee TV games.

That was fast. Thanks.

I think it's about the same but unless the starting pitching improves by a lot I don't like our chances. The hitting will slow down as a .360 babip this month is unsustainable.

Imagine if a lineup with Miguel, Hammer, Adrian Gonzalez and Hanley... four .950+ OPS guys this season. I guess that could have being depending on which trades got made or not made and I would bet no team has ever had four 950+ OPS guys and only a handful have had three.

http://www.beyondthe...through-tuesday is basically WAR standings. The main difference is that it uses tRA (Which takes into account LD%, GB%, and FB%). Doesn't account for base running though. WAR itself is nothign new really. It's basically just WARP3 and such. The concept's been around forever. Take amount of runs offensive, defensively, and base running, take position into context, take replacement level into context, and divde by 10. An argument against it would moreso be the metric that they're using to judge offense/defense/so forth. A stat that accurately measured a player's value compared to a replacement player would be great but this stat obviously fails miserably.