Friday Morning Links: Hilton Richardson and Stuff

These projections are worthless. Baseless. Meaningless. Just like most of the stat BS.

Guillen is way better than his, so is Getz, and so is Ankiel. I could go on but what’s the point arguing with a calculator.

85 wins. Best rotation in the division. Most speed on the basepath’s and in the OF. Improved bullpen and most reliable closer in the division.
Most breakout years by individual players:Getz, Gordon, Ankiel, Butler, Hochevar, and Tejada.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

his story is very inspiring. While I wish he would be more of a believer in stats and I think at time he tends to talk down to his audience, I am personally very inspired by his story and glad that he’s come through it. i wish him nothing but the best.

A guy I’d like to know more about. He seems to have taken longer to develop than the Royals anticipated, but knowing he might take a few years, he’s still on pace to make the bigs around 24. That is assuming he continues to progress.

He’s quoted as being five tool potential. What is his best tool? Weakest tool? That kind of thing.

But he’s been on the radio a lot recently talking about his charity – Gloves for Kids – and he really does come off as a passionate person concerned with others well-being, which I have to admire. He also spent a segment talking about his book and some of the stuff he dealt with and I was really impressed with how in-touch he was with himself and what he was going through.

We may disagree on bunting, Tony Pena Jr. and the resurrection of Josh Hamilton (although the revelation of his own personal demons now put his championing of Hamilton in a different light), but I bet if it came down to it, I would probably enjoy a beer with Lefebvre.

Well he’s in low-A now, and his SB/HR ratio was 22/1 last season (yes, I just made that stat up) so I’m guessing HR power is his weakest tool. That said, he still had an .819 OPS in rookie ball so there might be more than meets the eye.

So he’s going back

These projections are worthless. Baseless. Meaningless. Just like most of the stat BS.

Guillen is way better than his, so is Getz, and so is Ankiel. I could go on but what’s the point arguing with a calculator.

85 wins. Best rotation in the division. Most speed on the basepath’s and in the OF. Improved bullpen and most reliable closer in the division.
Most breakout years by individual players:Getz, Gordon, Ankiel, Butler, Hochevar, and Tejada.

How can anyone disagree with this?

is a team that wins between 75-80 games, AND does it by playing sound fundamentally. Ideally we would hover around .500 all year so we’re at least on the outer fringes of wildcard contention.

i do think that we could have a much better year than expected, but it’s going to take nearly all of the following things to happen (in other words, not bloody likely):

Zack stays within shouting distance of last year’s performance
Meche gives us 2007/2008 production
Butler gives us AT LEAST what he gave us last year
Bannister can perform as a #3 starter for the entire year
One of Davies/Hochevar/Tejeda can perform as a #3/#4
Betancourt regresses to the mean (positively) or Aviles comes back and gives us near-2008 production
Gordon gives us a 125 OPS+ with average defense
Callaspo plays nearly every day at DH and hits like he did last year
The bullpen reverts back to 2007/2008 form

i would submit that none of these individually are all that unlikely to happen; i would say that the chances of 2/3 of these happening are a little less than 50/50. chances of 8/9 happening: less than 25% IMO and probably less than 10% chance that they all happen.

even assuming that 8/9 of these things were to happen, we’re still not accounting for the fact that we will most likely get nothing from podsednik or kendall, we’ve got to hope that dejesus maintains his previous years’ production, soria stays healthy, and we have no idea what we’ll get from ankiel.

Gordon
Submitted by ksuatheart on February 18, 2010 – 10:39am.
I’m giving Gordon until some point in June to get his act in gear. If he’s hitting below .270, Dayton should trade him or option him, and give Callaspo a shot as the full time third baseman.

I told a co-worker, and he said maybe my downgrade (as I did with Bannister before last season) would be the kick in the pants that Alex has been waiting for.

What I really want is to see Aviles or Bianchi to force Dayton’s hand in spring training.

I think an infield of Butler, Getz, Aviles/Bianchi, and Callaspo/improved Gordon could hold it’s own against the rest of the division.

Egads.

Of Avatar seems to be a ridiculous polemic. I have not seen the movie, but it is impossible not to know it’s narrative. POV is the arbiter of reality.

Where’s the link to the Dutton’s yearly article of false hope?