That was a great impression of David Price in October.

We call it RoundPuck up here.

It’s dunk. To Dunk you just need to be fairly tall and a reasonably good jumper. There was a guy I went to college with who was maybe 6'1 and kind of a skinny nerd but his thing was distance running and one day he just sort of casually mentioned he could dunk a basketball and, after just about every one of us said he…

Hitting a 350 foot home run with a wooden bat on a pitch slower than say 80mph is an impossible thing to do without any baseball experience. As is hitting a baseball solidly on a pitch over 80mph. (Excepting the .00001% pure luck.)

There’s absolutely no way it’s homer. I know people who played minor league ball and they have all said unless you played in college you have zero chance of hitting the ball more than about 175' with a wooden bat. Or, more eloquently, you could maybe crank one out of a little league field if you hit it straight at the…

More people can dunk.

There are way more tall people in the world who only have to jump upwards a couple of feet, compared to people who have the strength, hand-eye coordination, and technique to hit a baseball high and far enough over a fence.

It takes more strength and technique to hit a homer than it does to dunk. You just have to be tall enough and/or able to jump high enough. As long as we assume a normal distribution of height and allow for two handed dunks, there’s really only one answer.

I imagine there are more reasonably athletic tallish people out there who can elevate enough to dunk badly than people with the combination of technique and strength to jack a donger.

It’s funny, but his air high-fives are even funnier.

#hazingtherightway

Honestly, I would have expected that name to pop up on @YesYoureRacist.

Until now, the name “Rhys Hoskins” just sounded like another guy who has played Doctor Who.

You do realize he was using the term ironically don’t you?

August baseball is like the weird time after state testing where they still have school for 3 or more weeks.

In what fucking universe could anyone ever convince themselves that Joey Votto is overrated? He’s one of the best hitters in the game, I don’t give a shit what you want to use to measure it. Maybe his base running isn’t great? Do you just hate walks or what? Jesus the things people whine about.

You’re right! If there’s anything sports media is obsessed with, it’s relentlessly hyping the achievements of Joey Votto.

It’s sort of weird to accuse the other side of “straw man arguments”, given that this is a comment thread which you started, to rebut claims about sabermetrics that this article does not make.

I’d say that’s a pretty disingenuous reading of their intentions and completely at odds with the way virtually every front office (Jeets likely excepted) actually operates these days. Twitter snark is not where rigorous baseball analysis is happening for the most part.

I sorta see where you’re headed here. HOWEVAH. PECOTA and JAWS are projection systems designed to predict future outcomes based on previous performance, while WAR, OPS+ and wRC+ are designed to measure actual in-season performance. They certainly use most of the same data, but to different ends and with different…