Moneyballers - I'm throwing the gauntlet down

[joek]

You do a great job at name calling. It shows in the content and value of your useless posts and opinions.

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by joek You do a great job at name calling. It shows in the content and value of your useless posts and opinions.

You give me nothing better to do than call you names, since you've yet to make a valid point. Make one, and I'll address it.

[joek]

The best team always wins and the best team is made the best by the best players.

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by joek The best team always wins and the best team is made the best by the best players.

So Barry Bonds sucks? Albert Pujols sucks? Roy Oswalt sucks? I could go on, but I've made you look stupid enough already.

[Providence A's]

I'd just like to point out that the Rangers continued to do nothing since this thread was started and the A's continued to win. Let the fun continue

[A'sDiehard]

That may be true Prov but we're still holding onto the Holy Grail.

[Fishercat]

Holy crap at joek's ERA.

[Providence A's]

wouldn't a negative ERA signify that you were scoring runs while pitching?

[Fishercat]

It would, technically, be allowing negative earned runs or pitching a negative number of innings.

[Providence A's]

yea, the opposite of giving up runs is scoring runs...I don't think pitching negative innings could be explained

[realmofotalk]

In light of the Mitchell Report, we've now learned that the reason the Ultimate Beane player, Jason Giambi, went from a high average hitter with modest power in the minor leagues to a big league power hitter was... steroids. Also, the difference between Lenny Dykstra and Billy Beane as hitters was... steroids.

[Porter99]

Originally Posted by ejk Dam8610, you don't know how foolish you are. The WIN METHOD is out there, just listen to certain sports people talking of winning and ignoring stats. Latest was the new Notre Dame football coach, saying 'stats and and stat sheets mean nothing, (to him) getting the win is all that counts'.

Hey,

Notre Dame is doing really damn good right now. WIN METHOD all the way.

[Porter99]

Originally Posted by Providence A's wouldn't a negative ERA signify that you were scoring runs while pitching?

His ERA was so bad that we spotted him negative innings pitched to make up for all the runs he allowed in his tenure here.

[Doro]

I think many here do not understand (or as Roger might say mis-understand) moneyball. The moneyball way is not only the Oakland A's but yes the New York Yankees. Both teams value the same talent but the A's can't afford to throw their money around like the Yankees can. If Beane did have the ability to do that in Oakland then yes he would. OBP and SLG% are stats that Beane lives by offensive wise and if you take a look at the Yankees most of their hitters are proficient in those stats as well. MONEYball works. Sometimes people look too far into the book and miss the true idea. Take what you have and make the most out of it.