I was gonna say, anyone want to handicap the chances of an extension getting signed before season’s end?

I think with what we gave up for him they have every intention of signing him long term.

actually, the PAYROLL number is $170,260,000 for lux tax purposes, and that doesn’t count the benefits that need to be added at the end of the year, which are usually between 10 and 11 mm. so we’re gonna be right there.

Well it wasn’t there when I hit post.

I knew it was coming just a matter of when.

Is it bad to wish him a BABIP-fueled season again?

It’s possible it took him 6 minutes to post that comment…

You could decrease SLG by the same percentage as you did BA.

Is there a hitting stat like SIERA that takes certain factors like one’s LD% into account to get a better sense of how good one was as a hitter? I know some of the advanced stats for hitting (wOBA, ISO, ect) but wanted to know if there was one more like SIERA that gave you a better sense of a hitter’s true hitting absent some luck.

There’s been work done that shows LD rates are not good BABIP predictors. Check BP.

or Ryan Howard’s grandmother’s cornbread.. YUM.

if Selig ever leaves. He’s already said he’s going to retire then signed a contract extension. Twice.

I’m not saying I think he’s been great, but from the viewpoint of those that evaluate these things (as opposed to we the bourgeois), Selig’s tenure has been one of the most successful I’m the history of the game.

They’ll cite many reasons, not the least of which is shepherding the game out of the PED era and weathering the ’94 strike and the McGuire/Sosa ratings-grabber-turned-humiliating-posterchild-for-an-entire-disgraceful-era.

That was a downtime for most, if not all of us, but the writers and scribes who tell the history were TRAUMATIZED by it, and the fact that baseball was – just a decade later – back in the public favor and doing well is viewed by them as nothing short of a miraculous accomplishment.

And THAT – when you strip everything else away – is the ultimate bellwether of success. Even in the midst of an historic, brutal Recession, Baseball is performing incredibly well making more profit than at any time in its long history.

THAT will be the argument-ender anytime the talking heads debate Selig’s legacy (most likely to be preceded with some form of the caveat, “Say what you want about expansion and wild cards and extended playoffs, BUT….”).

Put more simply: Money Talks.

“and warming up in the bullpen for the Red Sox, twenty game winner for Pawtucket this season…”

Especially if you’re paying two of them the major league minimum.

You know I like you much better as poet. The Prophet of Doom thing you do…well, poets ya know, are harmless.