The 2010 Boston Red Sox Call All Destroyer Tells Us What He Thinks Thread

is it patriots or bruins time yet?

maybe we'll finally get to see lars anderson now that he's a bust and they don't need to preserve his service time

IIRC, it usually comes down to:
best leadoff man 1st
best overall hitter second
another high OBP/low GIDP guy 3rd
best overall slugger 4th

worst hitter bats eighth

― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Monday, August 30, 2010 6:46 PM (2 days ago)

there's a thread on this!

1st: speed (lefty or switch), high obp
2nd: lefty, high obp
3rd: best hitter (OPS/VORP) on team
4th: best slugger on team

That's why Francoeur hit 4th for the Mets last night.

actually the weirdest thing that comes out of the lineup analysis stuff is that the #3 spot in the lineup is actually the 5th most important spot after 2,4,1,5, and is best suited for low average sluggers e.g. david ortiz, jim thome, etc. the reason is that they come up with 2 outs and no men on base a bit more often than the other slots, so a home run slightly increases in value from that slot while a non-HR hit slightly decreases in value.

it's extremely marginal though and if you have your best hitter in the 3-hole you're probably losing no more than a run or 2 per season

a lot of teams still get the all-important 1&2 hitters all wrong which is a much bigger inefficiency than anything you'll get out of more detailed lineup optimization

LOL at Papelbon opening the floodgates by watching Quentin take (an uncovered) second base on a bloop to shallow center.

Then the bottom fell out. Carlos Quentin doubled to no-man’s land in shallow center, where the infielders and rookie outfielder Ryan Kalish converged but nobody could get to the ball. Quentin raced into second where nobody was covering — and Rios scored. Papelbon should have been at second.

“Yeah, I think he would have been safe regardless,’’ Papelbon said.

Quentin took second because nobody was there, dipshit.

lester killin it

The door is open, Sox, the Stanks are swoonin'.

6 games left vs the bombers o_O

Sox' raw playoff odds at 0.25%. I wonder what sweeping the Stanks wd raise it to?

they'd have to take 5 or 6 of the 6 remaining

i think the A's are more likely to make the playoffs than the red sox right now

i just had that open and through you were right -- you're not, it's 0.26% chance Sox and 0.15% chance Rangers. still.

0.15% A's, you get the idea. i'd love to see that surprise upset.. OR WOULD I.

Sox odds up to 1.13%!

well its almost bruins time.

thank god its over.

dont really mind, lots of fun teams to bandwagon for the postseason this year