dejackso
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OT: Help me find a specific baseball card
I have been trying to track down a specific baseball card for the past couple of hours. I know that I have owned it, but I don't know if I still have it.
Here is what I remember:
1) It was from a subset of the larger set (like a Diamond King or something like that)
2) The image on the card was drawn.
3) The subject has a comically huge batting eye (as if to express that the batter was really patient)
Here are things that I think I know
4) It was from the 1990s and probably a California Angel
5) The player in question may not have actually been a very good hitter...maybe Gary Disarcina or Garret Anderson.
The main thing that I remember was that the drawing had the player with one eye that was much, much larger than the other. I know that's not a lot to go on, but I have faith in this board's knowledge base on obscure baseball cards.
How Kila Ka'aihue helps explain the compounding error of SSS.
Just a short blurb to show two things
1) Applying a small streak to a small sample can radically change the inference of a statistic
2) It is way too early to make any sort of judgement on Kila's performance this year.
Kila is hitting a horrible .195/.295/.317 line this season. Obviously, he is struggling and a good many people are ready to give up on him. However, over his last 8 games, Kila is hitting a fairly mediocre .276/.344/.448 for a 1B. This has raised his BA almost 50 points, his OBP 25 points, and his SLG 72 points.
If Kila were to repeat the best 8 game stretch of his career, Kila would be hitting .232/.317/.464 on the year and we would be praising his rebound and high effort character.
If you were to remove his worst 8 game stretch of this season, Kila would be hitting .245/.344/.433 on the year and we would be disappointed, but probably not having the send Kila down discussion.
A change of just 8 games can make a pretty drastic change on a how one interprets a player's season when it is this early. It is probably too early to make any real judgement on the guy one way or another.
Interesting side note: If Kila were to repeat his best 8 game streak, it would increase his CAREER OPS 50 points. That's pretty dramatic.
Interesting side note #2: Kila has never been hit by a pitch in his MLB career. Kendall thinks he's weak.
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This really doesn't need to exist, but I was bored.
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Funny video...
that you have no doubt already seen at some point. I am rarely topical.
Does this mean that even Yost questions the abilities of Frenchy and Melky?
by dejackso on Mar 4, 2011 7:02 PM EST
on Royals Review
The Best Trade in the History of Each MLB Team
It's a pretty cool article even if I disagree with some of them. What do you guys think?
Two questions: Jared Camp fiasco and Rule 5 query.
Okay, let me see if I have this straight. He was drafted by the Brewers and spent 3 years in their organization. Then, the Twins picked him in the 1999 Rule 5 draft first overall. The Twins traded him to the Marlins for Johan Santana (who was picked second in the Rule 5 draft) with the Marlins sending $50,000 to the Twins [In essence, the Marlins paid the Twins for the honor of taking Johan Santana off their hands].
Now, here is my first question. Somehow, this Jared Camp was on the Marlins, but never actually played in their minor league system. In fact, the year he was picked...he played in the Cleveland org. Does anyone know how this happened?
Second question: based on this from wikipedia.
"To prevent excessive turnover in the minor league levels, each draftee costs $50,000. If the draftee does not stay on the selecting team's 25-man (major league) roster all season, the player must be offered back to his original team at half-price. Organizations may also draft players from AA or lower to play for their AAA affiliates (for $12,000) and may draft players from A teams or lower to play for their AA affiliates (for $4,000)."
As some of you might know, Santana was a Rule 5 pick and as such was forced to be on the Twins MLB Roster for the entire first season even though he was pretty bad. However, he was only on the A-ball team for the Astros when picked...so why did he have to be on the MLB Roster? According to that above rule, they could have just put him in the minors. Any insights?
OT: MST3K people make a joke about the Royals
Rifftrax is a group that makes fun of movies. The members include Mike Nelson plus one of the Crow voices and one of the Servo voices. It rocks. Here they are making fun of Red Dawn. Watch the preview to hear them making fun of the Royals.
This video is actually just Mike Nelson and Joel McHale (from the Soup and Community)
OT: KC in 6 Playstation commercial
This is a pretty funny ad from the future. Kansas City wins the WS in 6!
OT: What defines a Fanpost?
by dejackso on May 25, 2010 4:47 PM EDT
on Royals Review
There has been some interesting discussion (again) about what should be required to make a Fanpost in the discussion of a different article found here. I thought it would be interesting to get other people's thoughts on the matter. My argument can be found in the discussion in the link provided as can the opposing argument.
OT: Madden NFL exclusivity to be challenged?
I'm not sure that anyone on here cares, but just in case. This might imply a challenge on Madden having exclusive right on the NFL for videogames. Thoughts?
2008 Royals Update - Position Players
by dejackso on May 22, 2010 3:36 PM EDT
on Royals Review
In honor of Trey Hillman, I decided it would be interesting to look at the team that Hillman had in his first year and see how the players are doing today. I only included the players who are no longer with the team and you can see their stats and what team they are with after the jump.
10 Best Non-HOF Pitchers by WAR
The link takes you to an interesting baseball-reference page.
That page has a couple links including one that has the best WARs by pitchers in the last 30 years (Greinke is good, btw). Go directly there by clicking here
Why is Catfish Hunter in the Hall of Fame? They need to remove him and Jim Rice (amongst others).
OT: Make your 5 favorite player lists for my amusement.
by dejackso on Apr 27, 2010 1:28 PM EDT
on Royals Review
I know this has been done before, but I am curious about the lists people would make on here. I'd like people to make three lists: top 5 favorite Royals of all time, top 5 favorite non-Royals of all time, top 5 favorite players that never (or barely) made it (or hasn't yet and probably won't). However, I have a caveat. I'd like the list to be made from your top 5 players ever at the peak of your feelings for them. For example, if Sweeney was your favorite player ever at any point, but you hate him now for injuries or something...you'd put him at #1. I know that feelings for certain players can vary quite a bit, but the peak value probably doesn't as much.
My lists are after the break.
In case you have trouble with your number 5: Go here
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"I talked to Bill Walsh and his statement was, 'If I see it on film once, then my coaches should be able to get it out of a guy,'" said Horton, the Scouts Inc. founder and veteran NFL talent evaluator. "That always stuck with me. He was amazing at seeing things on tape. That '81 draft was a smart draft. You could look at that draft and you could see what teams were thinking."
Weird, wild stuff.
Bill James will be in Lawrence on Sunday
$50/person. Lawrence Public Library. Sunday Apri. 25th at 7pm.
What ever happened to ... Dan Reichert?
by dejackso on Apr 15, 2010 5:33 PM EDT
on Royals Review
Do you know those moments where you know that you should be doing something productive, yet you just can't make yourself actually do work? However, you feel guilty about it so you won't let yourself do anything that you really would like to do. Instead, you decide to just waste away part of your day watching M*A*S*H* reruns or looking up something on wikipedia and just following links around for the next few hours. Well, I don't have television, I already watched the movie Clue for the 100th time yesterday, and I finally bored of wikipedia.
So I found myself using the search feature to look up one of my favorite subjects...myself. I found a blurb that I had written in 2007 on an old undrafted Royal named Byron Gettis (click here)and thought it might be interesting to do it again. I decided to make an attempt at a "Where are they now" article about another former Royal and see where life had led them. Maybe this will be a one-time attempt that fails miserably or maybe I'll be writing one of these about Danny Duffy in a few years. Boredom makes us do strange things.
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OT: Sweet, but strange bat trick.
I'm sure some of you guys have seen this already, but in case you haven't...
This guy should start a baseball circus with Car Jumpin' Joey Gathright.
Btw: The pitcher in the background is Jose Lima.
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Shocking News: The Royals aren't good at baserunning
The 5 best and worst baserunners from 2005 to 2009 doesn't include any Royals, but as a team...we're uh...not very good.
30 in 30 ... kinda funny part
by dejackso on Mar 20, 2009 8:20 AM EDT
on Royals Review
Did anyone watch the 30 clubs in 30 days special on the royals last night (MLB Network)?
They interviewed Farnsworth about the bullpen and he listed of the players that would help... I'm going to paraphrase it here. (I put one quotation cause this isn't exact)
'...me, Cruz, Mahay, Bale when he's healthy, Waetcher, Gobbl...err...it should be good"
It made me laugh anyway...he sounded awkward through the interview and never even mentioned any doomsday devices.
OT: Lawrence, Kansas
by dejackso on Mar 3, 2009 3:52 PM EST
on Royals Review
I just got accepted into the PhD program at the University of Kansas and will be moving there in July. I've actually never been there (or to Kansas at all in fact) and I was wondering if anyone had any information to share. For example...
What kinds of things are there to do in Lawrence?
Are there any apartment or housing places that I should seek out or should avoid?
What types of eating establishments are good or should I avoid (I see that there is a Gumby's which we have here in Michigan and I already know to avoid that place).
Just any information at all would be helpful. I'm excited to move near my team (or at least nearer), but I've only lived in the South,Michigan, and Germany before.
Royals Favored!?
by dejackso on Aug 3, 2008 9:48 AM EDT
on Royals Review
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=280803107
According to ESPN's Accuscore, the Royals are favored to win Sunday's game with their chances at success at 57% compared to the underdog Sox who only have a 43% (incredibly these scores add up to 100 thus negating the possibility of a tie). Also, Buck, Gordon, and Guillen are equally likely to hit a HR this game.
In an related note, ESPN has proposed to use .001% of their total available coverage on this game versus 61% coverage for Favrervevererv and 53% coverage for NYY or BOS (I assume that some coverage will be speculation on a Yankee - Packers deal).
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Oh yeah, Hi everybody. I've been busy a lot so I haven't had a lot of time to post / read post / argue with NYRoyal. I also saw that Ross Gload's mom...err...Joel is back on the site. Hey Joel!!!
OT: Baseball thesis topic help
by dejackso on Dec 12, 2007 2:22 PM EST
on Royals Review
I hope this is appropriate to post here, but I'd like some input from people who come to this site (because you guys are awesome and smart [you are Royals fans after all..and I'm done kissing up]).
I'd like to know what kinds of questions or things that you might like me to look at in my thesis (the abstract will be below)
I'd also like to see if anyone has an interesting or clever idea for a title...
Rex
by dejackso on Dec 3, 2007 10:29 AM EST
on Windy City Gridiron
People at the ESPN message board are annoying. Apparently, the last game is entirely on Rex. They think that because his QB rating is 67.1 in 7 games, that he hasn't improved after the benching.
Apparently, we have already won 63 games...
by dejackso on Sep 12, 2007 11:45 AM EDT
on Royals Review
From Baseball Prospectus
Full Article here
Sept 9, 2007
Kansas City and Washington didn't break out champagne flutes this week when it happened but both clubs felt relief when notching their 63rd wins of the season, ensuring neither would finish with 100 losses.The Royals ended their string of three straight triple-digit loss seasons. The Nationals reported to spring training amidst predictions that might lose 110 games with a pitching staff that appeared ragtag at best.
Of course, a season of less than 100 losses doesn't exactly excite Royals GM Dayton Moore, used to winning division titles on a yearly basis from his days in Atlanta's front office. "I think it would be very easy for us to think this is a major accomplishment or successful season," Moore told the Kansas City Star. "In reality, it's just not."
[for rest of article...follow the above link]
Byron Gettis
by dejackso on Sep 12, 2007 11:34 AM EDT
on Royals Review
From Baseball Prospectus
Full article here
Byron Gettis, TE, Southern Illinois University
On Saturday night, I went to my first college football game, strolling over to the campus of Northern Illinois University to catch their home opener against Southern Illinois. It was a pretty remarkable game for a number of reasons, including a 20-point, fourth-quarter comeback by the visitors, but it was a 10-second stretch in the third quarter that struck me. After an incomplete pass, the stadium announcer came over the PA system - "... pass intended for number eighty-four, Byron Gettis." I thought it was just a coincidence at first, but then I started wondering. Nearly ten years ago, when the Royals signed Gettis, he was a huge football star with Big Ten scholarship offers, and he was from... the southern part of Illinois.
[this part of the article can be seen from the BP website]
According to his SIU bio, he's also writing a book about his baseball experience; I'm looking forward to reading it.
Why are people still supporting Bell?
by dejackso on Sep 12, 2007 10:12 AM EDT
on Royals Review
Here's are some quotations from last night's game...
there is a reason why bellhas one of the worse winning percentages of all major league history..............we are seeing it before our very eyes this september
by smarsh on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 10:48:32 PM EDT
In response:
I can give reasons
1.Lack of starting pitching
2. Front office not spending money
Every team that fired Bell was WORSE after he left.
by jbrocato on Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 11:04:14 PM EDT
Bell's Tigers record (1996-1998) 184W 277L
Win % = .399
After Bell [Lance Parrish] (1998-1999) 82W 104L
Win % = .441
Tigers got better when Bell left
Bell's Rockies record (2000-2002) 161W 185L
Win % = .465
After Bell [Clint Hurdle] (2000-2007) 426W 505L
Win % = .458
Rockies stayed about the sam after Bell left
Note: All of these teams had a lack of starting picthing and front office support with and without Bell.
Can prospects be rushed?
by dejackso on Jul 30, 2007 7:35 PM EDT
on Royals Review
A further musing from the article Well, that was pointless
I'm going to keep the initial post short and hope that discussion in the comments below will allow for more illumination. However, is the old axiom about rushing prospects true? Why do people believe it to be true? Is it truly statistically significant or is it a case of people latching onto ballplayers who failed that were bound to fail anyway.
Deadspin Versus Baseball Prospectus...
by dejackso on Mar 26, 2007 1:12 PM EDT
on Royals Review
Apparently, the people at Get Untracked have recently done a blog entry on the negativity of the stat-oriented BP and how they may NOT be the most negative site on the web regarding sports.
http://getuntracked.blogspot.com/2007/03/bp-hope-and-faith-versus-deadspin-snark.html
Surprisingly, the people at Get Untracked have decided to completely ignore the existance of the Royals (see the two comments toward the end of the page of the above article).
In the interest of Royal fandom, here is the season preview off of Deadspin. This one is written by Bradford Doolittle from the Kansas City Star.
http://deadspin.com/sports/baseball/baseball-season-preview-kansas-city-royals-241517.php
Baseball Prospectus is obviously saving the best for last as KC hasn't been previewed quite yet. However, the following is the front page of the BP season preview project. Hopefully BP will soon show the glory of the Pena, Jr. Trade. Yes, it must be in all caps.
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=228
For completionists on this ongoing and tragic story, here is Deadspin's response on their negativity.
http://deadspin.com/sports/baseball/we-are-more-depressing-than-baseball-prospectus-245568.php
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