alcoholicstepfather Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I put him in AAA since the MLB roster is really packed Good deal. Exactly what I was thinking to do with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Unit Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Hey Totte, do you need any more scouting reports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elssamvp Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Totte I don't understand how do you calculate the fielding percentage of a player. Per example: David Eckstein is better than Alex gonzalez in all aspects concernig to fielding, but in the last update Alex González appears with an icon glove, but David Eckstein not. I would appreciate any information concerning to this. Thanks. Sorry, i don't know if this is right post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpitdestroyerx Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Totte I don't understand how do you calculate the fielding percentage of a player. Per example: David Eckstein is better than Alex gonzalez in all aspects concernig to fielding, but in the last update Alex González appears with an icon glove, but David Eckstein not. I would appreciate any information concerning to this. Thanks. Sorry, i don't know if this is right post Totte doesn't look at only one season. he's making this kinda adjustments from a span of i think 3 years. he'll redo all ratings after this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoholicstepfather Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I think he'll adjust fielding attributes during the season, but not hitting attributes. Post on here who need an upgrade and maybe Totte will increase them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoholicstepfather Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Hey Totte, do you need any more scouting reports? Were is a good site to get scouting reports? I've tried google search and yahoo search and can't find anything useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Unit Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 i use msn foxsports and google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 A good thing to do is, in Google, type the players name in quotes, then put scouting report in quotes, like this. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22fe...G=Google+Search Usually you have to pay for good scouting reports like scout.com has, but sometimes you can get lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Totte, those "scouting reports" found on page 745 are actually fake. They're from a kind of fantasy league that people do. Here's some more examples of these: http://www.chronyc.com/otwb/2007/p3761.html http://www.chronyc.com/otwb/2007/p2941.html http://bdsl.allsimbaseball.com/lgreports/p3306.html There's a lot of sites like that, including the Major Baseball League, where he got those reports from. If you notice, the dates are always in 2008 or beyond. While they can sometimes be used to get accurate info, most of them are just made up for the fantasy league. I recently saw one for Scott Elbert that said he threw a splitter and curveball, which is false. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elssamvp Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Totte doesn't look at only one season. he's making this kinda adjustments from a span of i think 3 years. he'll redo all ratings after this season If it is using an average of 3 season or more, David Eckstein is better in all the defensive aspects than Alex Gonzalez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 That's a good point. The only things separating Gonzalez and Eckstein in Gonzo has way better range and a lot stronger arm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StEaLtHsHoT Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Totte, those "scouting reports" found on page 745 are actually fake. They're from a kind of fantasy league that people do. Here's some more examples of these: http://www.chronyc.com/otwb/2007/p3761.html http://www.chronyc.com/otwb/2007/p2941.html http://bdsl.allsimbaseball.com/lgreports/p3306.html There's a lot of sites like that, including the Major Baseball League, where he got those reports from. If you notice, the dates are always in 2008 or beyond. While they can sometimes be used to get accurate info, most of them are just made up for the fantasy league. I recently saw one for Scott Elbert that said he threw a splitter and curveball, which is false. i did not know they were fake sorry hope i didn't mess you up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybernetic Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 The Oakland A's have claimed SP Jerome Williams off waivers from the Cubs Cincy Reds acquired SP Sun-Woo Kim from the Rockies for future considerations Boston received C George Kottaras from San Diego as the player to be named in the David Wells deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpitdestroyerx Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 If it is using an average of 3 season or more, David Eckstein is better in all the defensive aspects than Alex Gonzalez i just wanted to say that he probably won't do any changes in ratings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProdigy Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 A's got sort of a steal, isn't Jerome Williams still young? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redsoxkid Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Jerome Williams is only 24... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyMcM93 Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Jerome comes back to the Bay Area. Fabulous. Hopefully he does better for the A's than he did for the Giants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgbaseball Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 He's only 24 but he hasn't shown much yet. I can't imagine a move to the American League will help him much. Doesn't hurt to try him out, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I've increased Eckstein's fielding ratings. Unless something unexpected occurs, UR 7.5 will be out tomorrow as scheduled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProdigy Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 He's only 24 but he hasn't shown much yet. I can't imagine a move to the American League will help him much. Doesn't hurt to try him out, though. A's will probably use him as a reliever. I've increased Eckstein's fielding ratings. Unless something unexpected occurs, UR 7.5 will be out tomorrow as scheduled Niice, can't wait man !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 The Oakland A's have claimed SP Jerome Williams off waivers from the Cubs Cincy Reds acquired SP Sun-Woo Kim from the Rockies for future considerations Boston received C George Kottaras from San Diego as the player to be named in the David Wells deal Thanks dude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybernetic Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Cincy Reds DFA P Mike Gosling for assignment Boston Red Sox DFA P Jermaine Van Buren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abc006 Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 If it is using an average of 3 season or more, David Eckstein is better in all the defensive aspects than Alex GonzalezWell, I think that the best shortstop in all of baseball is Adam Everett. Article from sportingnews.com (requires membership to see the article, so i'm posting it here.) Craig Biggio has played with dozens of shortstops in a Hall of Fame-worthy career, but the Astros second baseman doesn't hesitate when asked about Adam Everett. "I've been here for 20 years," Biggio says, "and he's the best I've ever played with." Anecdotal evidence is one thing. Praise from a revered teammate is great to have. But what about quantifiable data? Thanks to The Fielding Bible, a new treatise from John Dewan on the defensive merits of major league players and teams, we have just that. Perhaps Astros fans should pipe down about the club's inability to push through a proposed trade that would have sent Everett and Roy Oswalt to the Orioles for the big bat of Miguel Tejada at the nonwaiver trading deadline. They should read a four-page essay from the esteemed Bill James detailing the ways in which Everett is superior to Derek Jeter and how Everett easily was the best at the position the past three seasons. Dewan's sleep-deprived crew at Baseball Info Solutions came to that conclusion after watching video of every game played in that span and charting the direction, distance, type and result of every ball put in play. The resulting plus-minus system, in which every fielder (catchers excluded) was assigned a rating based on how he fared against an average defender at his position, greatly advanced the cause of defensive sabermetrics. Everett was assigned a plus-76 for the past three years, well ahead of the Pirates' Jack Wilson (plus-50), who was ranked second. Tejada, at plus-15, ranked 11th. Jeter (minus-64) was 30th, and Rangers All-Star Michael Young (minus-73) ranked 31st and last. Asked about being the poster boy for this new fielding metric, Everett shakes his head and smiles. "It's like, wow!" he says. "To get noticed makes you feel good. I read a little bit of the book, but I try not to get too much into that. They said they watched a ton of games the last three years, so that's pretty impressive." So is Everett's glove, which remains strong by any measure. This year his .993 fielding percentage ranks second among shortstops -- the Giants' Omar Vizquel's ranks first -- and Everett's four errors were right behind Vizquel's three for fewest among regular shortstops. Being sure-handed is important, but what separates Everett is his range, the way he makes the difficult play look easy and the stunning frequency with which he turns batted balls into outs. "All I know is that defensively he's superb," Biggio says. "He saves your pitching staff with the amount of balls he can get to. . . . I just think certain guys see the ball differently off the bat. Ozzie Smith saw the ball. As you were swinging he was already breaking to the ball. There are certain guys that see the game a different way, and that's what makes them great." Yet how many baseball observers think of Everett in those terms? Even The Fielding Bible has a diving Tejada on its cover. That's why Dewan's plus-minus system, if it takes hold, could be a tremendous breakthrough in a long-mysterious area. Does Everett see himself at the vanguard of such a movement? "Maybe," he says. "It just depends on how technical it gets. There's so many numbers in today's game, people lose sight of wins and losses. Ultimately, that's what it's all about." Still, statisticians abhor vacuums every bit as much as nature does, so you can bet they'll continue tweaking the formula for measuring defense. "They've got a stat for just about everything offensively and pitchingwise," Everett says. "I'm sure they'll have one for everything defensively here pretty soon." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybernetic Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Cubs receive P Adam Harben from the Twins to complete the Phil Nevin trade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totte Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Cubs receive P Adam Harben from the Twins to complete the Phil Nevin trade Thanks buddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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