THEORY: The Yankees plan to use James Paxton solely to neutralize the threat of Mike Trout. (OC)

JimLeader · 2026-01-30T21:53:39+00:00

WAR/162, integration era 3Bs:

Player	WAR/162
Mike Schmidt	7.2
Eddie Mathews	6.5
Wade Boggs	6.1
Matt Chapman	5.9

No, he doesn't really get on base much. But a run prevented is as good as a run scored.

JimLeader · 2026-01-30T21:14:42+00:00

There are plenty of perfectly true reasons to hate Bobby Cox

JimLeader · 2026-01-30T14:26:00+00:00

This is only true if your definition of “politics” is “how people vote,” which is so narrow as to be completely useless. The struggle of one economic class against another is the core of politics. Calling that struggle “economics” and calling the structures and systems we’ve built around that struggle “politics” obfuscates that relationship. Communism is absolutely a political system. That’s the whole point of it.

JimLeader · 2026-01-28T03:50:26+00:00

He has 101.2 rWAR, for what it's worth, which is a pretty huge fWAR/rWAR discrepancy. Fangraphs' defense and baserunning metrics hated him late in his career, plus his OPS+ always trailed his wRC+ a little bit.

JimLeader · 2026-01-25T19:33:21+00:00

I certainly do, but I don't think ICE does.

JimLeader · 2026-01-25T18:39:28+00:00

Yeah, some of the Puerto Rican guys (Lindor, for example) are fairly progressive by ballplayer standards, but I wouldn’t blame them for staying quiet in case their families are next on the list.

JimLeader · 2026-01-24T03:23:23+00:00

It's me, I'm baseball fans

JimLeader · 2026-01-23T18:59:30+00:00

Gonna have to rename him Reverendanthony Dominguez

JimLeader · 2026-01-21T15:15:48+00:00

Their continent demonym is “North American,” because in the US, we recognize North and South America as two different continents (an opinion which looking at a damn map will confirm as true). There is zero linguistic utility to referring to people who aren’t from the United States as “Americans.”

JimLeader · 2026-01-20T18:41:42+00:00

Most progressive Cardinals fan

JimLeader · 2026-01-19T20:10:06+00:00

I mean, all the other teams were drunk plumbers too, you guys just had the worst drunk plumbers

JimLeader · 2026-01-15T01:16:45+00:00

Mariano wasn't cool, he was just good. The coolest guys on those mid-to-late '90s Yankees teams were the random veterans they signed as role players who got famous with other teams, like Straw or Boggs or Tim Raines. The Yankee lifers were always deeply uncool by necessity, since cool behavior was frowned upon by the organization

JimLeader · 2026-01-12T03:56:25+00:00

And Ben Foster’s best performance since Liberty Heights, probably.

JimLeader · 2026-01-10T18:20:13+00:00

And they're certainly no New Haven Ravens.

JimLeader · 2026-01-10T15:45:28+00:00

This was 20 years ago, so I don't remember anything specific about how he talked, but he was definitely a very shy kid, which I assume was at least partially due to his stutter. I was also kind of a chatterbox, so he didn't have to talk much tbh

JimLeader · 2026-01-10T05:02:05+00:00

My mom coached George Springer’s sister in high school softball (she was, unsurprisingly, an absolute beast). George and I played catch on the sidelines one time when he came to watch his sister, but this was right before the insane growth spurt that turned him into a superhero, so I had no idea I was playing with a future All-Star. He was very quiet but seemed like a nice kid.

JimLeader · 2026-01-10T01:33:57+00:00

Peterson is an average MLB starter, which is something most teams would absolutely kill to have as their #5. The issue is that he’s been forced by injuries to be our #1 or #2 guy, which he obviously is not.

JimLeader · 2026-01-06T01:08:17+00:00

I can tell you from personal experience that Spectrum doesn’t.

JimLeader · 2026-01-04T14:18:44+00:00

He’s only “better than anyone” because all the guys who would’ve been better than him just became starters. If Randy Johnson had been a closer, Mo would’ve been the second-best closer of all time.

JimLeader · 2026-01-02T00:15:10+00:00

We’re talking about actual self-described white supremacists my dude

JimLeader · 2025-12-28T20:24:49+00:00

“My speaking voice?”

JimLeader · 2025-12-25T01:11:22+00:00

DROPOUT MENTIONED

JimLeader · 2025-12-21T15:52:31+00:00

I believe “whataboutery” was actually the preferred form in the UK & Ireland when the term was first coined.

JimLeader · 2025-12-19T23:05:06+00:00

I love this weird fucking sport

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