USSM Year-end Best-of: March 2006
DMZ · December 28, 2006 at 8:16 pm · Filed Under Site information
Book review: The Museum of Clear Ideas
Dave on the Thornton-for-Borchard trade
Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player Ever
Dave scouts Daniel Bard and Andrew Miller
Dave compares Meche and Pineiro, which includes
Basically, Gil Meche sucks and Joel Pineiro doesn’t.
It’s a good piece of analysis, and also demonstrates that we get stuff wrong all the time.
Position roundtables: RF
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“Bugs Bunny, Greatest Banned Player Ever” — greatest post, ever.
Oh, and the M’s sure got a lot for Thonton when all was said and done, didn’t they?
Getting rid of Matt Thornton was enough by itself.
I’m convinced that the Mariners’ inability to get anything out of Thornton reveals serious problems with their pitching coaching.
Concerning the Meche vs. Joel thread…. it was good analysis. All it lacked was context… i.e. they both suck 🙂
What was really missing regarding context was a third year of data to more clearly demonstrate the trend… Seriously, did anyone see the transformation of Joel (into whatever the hell bag of ugly attributes he turned into last season) coming? Adding ’06 into his numbers for ’04 and ’05 and its shocking to so obviously see a pitcher fall off the planet….
This is a very important lesson to me and I greatly appreciate the authors of USSM for both their willingness to share their knowledege and for their courage to put arguments out into the marketplace where potential failures would become a matter of record.
NBarnes: I, on the other hand, am convinced that Thornton couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with any of his pitches.