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@ryanrevans @JomboyMedia Wrong, statistically, Smith is a better thrower than Cal

@JomboyMedia Cal hit a HR ever 9.33 AB last year. He received 9 AB this entire series. Nine (9)! Plus, that SB in top of the 9th never occurs with Cal behind the plate. I’d be fuming mad at DeRosa

Will Smith swung at a pitch that hit him

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse He got worse from 2022 to 2023

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse that stat ignores the fact that raleigh has improved every year, why would you not look at overall or for a specific season, i was trying to be charitable even going back to 2022 for the argument because every year you take off the gap widens

Cal Raleigh for Team USA so far. 0-6 1 RBI 3 SO 2 R 3 BB It might be time for Will Smith to start. 👀

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse You are acting like I made up some random stat that doesn't show anything; we are looking at the mean WAR of the players; another way of saying: what kind of WAR can we expect from this player next season.

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse you’re using a stat that isn’t widely used because it doesn’t make sense for the reason war is used to compare something that is widely used, and you wouldn’t be using that stat if it wasn’t the only way you could find a slight leg up for smith

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse You attempted to use the fact that you have never seen other people use that stat before, which is irrelevant to the merit of the stat. At one point, WAR had never been used before, and now you cling to it... point made

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse objectively the person with more war is more valuable😭 you are using stats never used before to try to justify something, bandwagon fallacy is just following what people around you are saying idk what your point is there

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse Bandwagon fallacy is all I'm seeing from you...

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse texas sharpshooter is all i’m seeing

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse lol okay buddy

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse “might”, i’ve literally never heard war per season be used as a stat, it’s so unbelievably cherry picked

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse No, my original claim was that you should be more confident with Smith since you know what you're getting... showing the average WAR someone puts up in a season is a clear way to see this. Plenty of players of one-hit wonder seasons...Cal might be one of them

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse that feels like it’s a very cherry picked stat that you only used once you realized war a game didn’t fit your narrative

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse I told you that I calculated the mean WAR/game...not just as simply as WAR/game. You have to equate the average WAR per game per season. That is what shows that Smith has been better and more consistent for longer.

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse 19.3/576=0.0335 while 16.6/501=0.0331

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse Incorrect

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse but also the stats you gave me were just wrong, cal had a higher war per game

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse Yes! But only when accessing who you would rather have on your team for the course of a season...but both are healthy right now and on the team, so using how often they are healthy is irrelevant when choosing who to play the next 3 games.

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse best ability is availability and that war isn’t the accurate one, it’s fwar for catchers

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse I agree that it should be used. But when accessing who should be used right now in the WBC, an important factor is knowing what you're gonna get, and due to a clear outlier season, you can be more confident in knowing what you're going to get with Will.

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse you’re cherry-picking stats to essentially discredit cals incredible season an calling it an outlier so the it doesn’t count, his outlier was last year which obviously matters the most when comparing players

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse Smith has the higher average OPS across seasons (.825 vs .753). Smith has far lower OPS volatility calculated using standard deviation (SD .050 vs .132). Smith has a higher WAR/game (0.0318 vs 0.0246). Smith is 4× more consistent in WAR/game (SD .0054 vs .0191)

@agonbaseball42 @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse since both were full time in the mlb in 2022, so wrong.

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse Incorrect. You show cumulative stats; I claimed variation amongst seasons. If you take the mean of the OPS produced by each catcher. Smith = 0.820 Cal = 0.752... showing an outlier season.

@Dm_Cards_ @JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse Although Cal posted a higher WAR last year, it was a clear outlier compared to his past production, making it less reliable going forward. Will Smith, meanwhile, has delivered strong numbers for years, giving you a much clearer sense of what he’ll provide season after season.

@JesusBa17929360 @LADodgersMuse how? cal had twice the war last year of smith and is both a better hitter and defender

@nestoverse Would you give up kamara to get chase brown

What Joe Flacco to Bengals means for Fantasy Football Jamar Chase Brown Tee Higgins

@jim_DFF No trade is veto worthy unless proven collusion

Made this trade in my one redraft league and it appears it’s tracking to get blocked… I need to know if I’m insane…is this veto worthy or not? Poll is in the thread below

@JWonCATCHING Awesome! Best catcher in the game...coming from a die-hard dodgers fan

Giants Patrick Bailey picking up in 2025 right where he left off in 2024. A series of 25% or less strike expectancy pitches called strikes.

@BBGreatMoments It may be due to recency bias I think you have to find a way to get Ohtani on here...

What do you think of this ranking of the best players of the 2000s so far?

@twuench @Southpaw728 @shegone03 @MLB @EndicottBASE @NorCal_Trojan read this thread...

They didn’t start measuring Exit Velocity in the @MLB until 2015! So all you people who love to make false claims about how much harder today’s hitters hit the ball without a shred of proof can save it. If you’ve never stood on a MLB infield when players like these were hitting you have no idea how dangerous it was. You could not take ground balls during BP if Ruben Sierra, Juan Gonzalez, Julio Franco, Rafael Palmeiro, Dean Palmer, Kevin Reimer or @Pudge_Rodriguez were hitting without fear of getting killed! If you weren’t there your opinion means nothing. #shegone @notgaetti @BobFile @twuench @billdubs @SliderDominate @ROXSystem @BLocsports @Sullivan_Ranger @MikeBacsik @MoVaughn_42 @TheBigHurt_35 @JayGibbons15 @TheRealJHair @Rafael_Palmeiro @Ddp1607 @WillClark22 @AMBS_Kernan @SalMarinello @RVGDag @Rangers