$M is a hell of a lot of endorsement money too.

It would be pretty important if the tarp was out of play, but it’s literally never out of play at any stadium. Ever seen an errant throw hit the tarp, stay on the field, and be called out of play? Me neither

I think “Ned Yost” things would include caring about 6.2 career innings against a team as some sort of meaningful evidence that a pitcher is bad against said team.

Right.

OK. There isn’t a “possession rule” in the context of what he was asking. Obviously you have to possess the ball for the ball to be caught. Thanks for that.

There isn’t really a possession rule. I can’t remember the exact phrasing of the rule right now but essentially he’s considered IN the field of play until he’s landed OUT of the field of play. So he couldn’t jump, land in the crowd, then catch it (in that order). But he can jump, catch it, then land in the crowd.

I got the same thing. Pretty sure this is correct.

What's a "babie"?

The concept you bring up is 100% right, but this article addresses that. Unlike what you said, it doesn't just assume all teams have above replacement-level bench players. That's the whole purpose of the "Wins Above Average Bench" thing - an average bench player is better than replacement level. What they're talking…

Don't say you "have to" verify those prescriptions, because you don't. I'm a pharmacist too.

Not a stupid question. Your solution tells you who the better player is without factoring in playing time, which is definitely useful. But that also doesn't help you with value. I'm stealing this example from a comment above, but making the numbers a little more easy to look at:

That's not at all the point that's being made in this article. Of course a guy who puts up 2 WAR in 81 games is a better player than a guy who does it in 162 games. That's not up for debate. And of course if that guy gets hurt every year, to the point where he's only expected to play about half the season, his…

In fact, your example is exactly what Fangraphs is doing with their positional power rankings, like for the catchers here.

No, you're not misunderstanding it at all. Team A would have gotten better output from their second base position than team B. Team B really doesn't have the better situation, even though most casual fans / old school sportswriters will think they do.

Sauce Castillo and Firsto Lasto need to end up on the same team somehow.

Why do you keep saying Cipro? Cipro is an antibiotic.

This is easily the worst pile of shit I've ever read on Kinja.

He was responding to the idiot who made the "hate train" comment to defend the game, not the actual reviewer.

Looks like the right call to me.

Not only that, but the fact that Trimble "is a freshman" and is "on the road" should apparently make it a no-call too. He basically came out and explicitly said he expects homer officiating.