Reds Tidbits (2009 season)

[AuburnBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

I just happened to look at the box score of the Reds game and couldn't help myself. I noticed fast Willy was sporting the 0-4 and decided to see where his OBP and SLG were for the year.

He has an OBP of .289 and a SLG of .301 I swear to God I had to look at it three time. My brain couldn't process seeing those type of numbers under either category. You just don't see it.

I can't even begin to express how bad that is. When your slugging percentage would be a very bad OBP you have reached some special level of suck. That would be like a QB having about a 40% completion percentage, a negative TD/INT ratio and the coaches just keep running him out there.

A .289 OBP shouldn't even be playing MLB, and yet our braintrust signs this worthless piece of [censored] to a 2 year deal, hands him the starting CF/leadoff duties and appears to have made that irrevocable in his contract.

All joking aside, the profundity of just how little our baseball people "get it" is amazing. Simply [censored]ing amazing. Dusty Baker has shaken my faith in Darwanisim. Follow with me;

1. Barring some major blunt force trauma to the head he's been this stupid since birth.

2. Anyone that [censored]ing stupid from birth should have done something so [censored] all stupid as to have gotten themselves killed well before their 15th birthday. Walked off a building, fork in a toaster, head in a wheat combine, something. Yet The Dusty is well into his 50's or 60's.

3. If something that stupid can live that long natural selection is bull[censored].

Putting a fork in a toaster can kill you?!?

[jlb1705]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

I just happened to look at the box score of the Reds game and couldn't help myself. I noticed fast Willy was sporting the 0-4 and decided to see where his OBP and SLG were for the year.

He has an OBP of .289 and a SLG of .301 I swear to God I had to look at it three time. My brain couldn't process seeing those type of numbers under either category. You just don't see it.

I can't even begin to express how bad that is. When your slugging percentage would be a very bad OBP you have reached some special level of suck. That would be like a QB having about a 40% completion percentage, a negative TD/INT ratio and the coaches just keep running him out there.

A .289 OBP shouldn't even be playing MLB, and yet our braintrust signs this worthless piece of [censored] to a 2 year deal, hands him the starting CF/leadoff duties and appears to have made that irrevocable in his contract.

Yeah, and by handing him the leadoff spot they basically said, "Willy Taveras is the guy we think should get more ABs than anyone else on the team."

How many more times a year would a guy like Adam Dunn have to strike out to drop his OPS to .590?

Players with a BA below .200 are said to be below the Mendoza Line. Has anybody staked their name to OPSing below .600? Can we call that the Taveras Line? I'm trademarking that [censored].

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by jlb1705

How many more times a year would a guy like Adam Dunn have to strike out to drop his OPS to .590?

Players with a BA below .200 are said to be below the Mendoza Line. Has anybody staked their name to OPSing below .600? Can we call that the Taveras Line? I'm trademarking that [censored].

Dunn couldn't get enough PA's to get his OPS that low.

Just as a point of reference regarding WT's .289/.301/.590 triple slash gem-

The average NL 8 with a minimum of 100 PA's this year has this line: .343/.426/.769

Thats how far WT is below even just an average NL CFer with his own craptastic numbers averaged in.

Thats just [censored]ing shockingly bad.

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

Apears that in some folks minds we're just good hitting and good pitching away from being right in the mix.

... and good managing! Don't forget good managing!

[schwab]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

...2. Anyone that [censored]ing stupid from birth should have done something so [censored] all stupid as to have gotten themselves killed well before their 15th birthday. Walked off a building, fork in a toaster, head in a wheat combine, something. Yet The Dusty is well into his 50's or 60's.

3. If something that stupid can live that long natural selection is bull[censored].

If you'll recall, his bat-boy son was about to get killed at home plate a couple years ago (all-star game?) until someone stepped in to save his life. If that old apple/tree argument holds firm, Dusty has had some close calls, but they were so blatantly obvious to someone around him that he was going to die, that they stepped in to save his ass. How many times, that is the question here.

[Dryden]

Originally Posted by schwab

If you'll recall, his bat-boy son was about to get killed at home plate a couple years ago (all-star game?) until someone stepped in to save his life.

Game 5, 2002 World Series.

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by schwab

If you'll recall, his bat-boy son was about to get killed at home plate a couple years ago (all-star game?) until someone stepped in to save his life. If that old apple/tree argument holds firm, Dusty has had some close calls, but they were so blatantly obvious to someone around him that he was going to die, that they stepped in to save his ass. How many times, that is the question here.

I would say the question is just plain old why? [censored]ing Why?

[schwab]

Originally Posted by Jaxbuck

I would say the question is just plain old why? [censored]ing Why?

I think I knew that was coming.

[BuckeyeMike80]

Originally Posted by schwab

If you'll recall, his bat-boy son was about to get killed at home plate a couple years ago (all-star game?) until someone stepped in to save his life. If that old apple/tree argument holds firm, Dusty has had some close calls, but they were so blatantly obvious to someone around him that he was going to die, that they stepped in to save his ass. How many times, that is the question here.

Game 5 of the 2002 World Series and the player who saved his kid was JT Snow.

[BuckeyeMike80]

Originally Posted by jlb1705

Yeah, and by handing him the leadoff spot they basically said, "Willy Taveras is the guy we think should get more ABs than anyone else on the team."

How many more times a year would a guy like Adam Dunn have to strike out to drop his OPS to .590?

Players with a BA below .200 are said to be below the Mendoza Line. Has anybody staked their name to OPSing below .600? Can we call that the Taveras Line? I'm trademarking that [censored].

I think it's called the Leo Gomez line....

[schwab]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeMike80

Game 5 of the 2002 World Series and the player who saved his kid was JT Snow.

Grand prize already went to Dryden.

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeMike80

I think it's called the Leo Gomez line....

Well Leo needs to move it on over because if you look back at WT since the beginning of 2008 the numbers don't get any better. He's got about a 900 AB streak of sub .600 OPS action going for him.

Worst position player in the NL, maybe all of MLB, period.

And we go out and sign the limp dick to a 2 year deal.

[Bucky Katt]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeMike80

I think it's called the Leo Gomez line....

Gomez had a career .753 OPS.
Juan Castro has a career .605.
Brandon Larson had a career .570

[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by Bucky Katt

Juan Castro has a career .605.
Brandon Larson had a career .570

And we have a guy in between those two no talent ass hats second on the team in total plate appearances.

Un[censored]ingreal.

[AuburnBuckeye]

This conversation about the color pink & chocolate is killing me. I'm pretty sure Brantley was popping painkillers before the broadcast.