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Originally Posted by hiaspire
That would be so unlike the Dodgers, said Brad Penny on his trade from the Marlins before landing on the DL.
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And that would be so unlike the Giants, said Armando Benitez on his arrival in San Francisco before landing on the DL.
HiAspire, you are a "cherry-picker". You bring up those few cases where you believe your thought process prevailed over Heltonfan's or someone else's, ignoring the vast preponderence of evidence that people such as us or at Baseball Prospectus could use to counter you.
You have never learned to appreciate what Heltonfan, I, others on this board or other places I may point you toward (such as baseballthinkfactory.org) have written due to your stubborn adherence to a "traditionalist" point of view. What's worse, you even disrespect the analytical fans by saying crap such as we ONLY consider the numbers when evaluating players and signings, or that we only think of the dollars when we watch a homerun sail over the wall.
As long as you 1) admit what you write is not analysis but rather explanations for why transactions happen in the real world, and 2) stop disrespecting us while insulting the intelligence of the greater analytical community of baseball fans, then I have no problem with you. The problem is that you'll always place some "false equivalence" on your thought process vis-a-vis the thought process and analysis of those whom you disrespect. I find that, to use a word I wrote earlier in this thread, ASTONISHING.