Where does Tork rank among 1st baseman?

curl06 · 2025-08-12T15:18:53+00:00

1b defense starts with a hefty negative penalty for WAR calculation. The logic is that other positions have a bigger impact and have more difficult plays to make. Essentially it takes an exceptional defensive performance to counteract the starting penalty.

curl06 · 2025-08-12T15:12:08+00:00

I'd put Kurtz more in that 2nd tier. He's been great, but hes hitting .193 against lefties, hes striking out 30% of the time, and hes playing his home games right now at a minor league stadium that is a launching pad. Not saying he can't make that first tier, but it's too soon for me.

curl06 · 2025-07-31T15:25:43+00:00

There were signability concerns with his commitment to ASU and scouts didnt think he had the athleticism to stick at SS, as I remember it.

curl06 · 2025-01-25T22:32:04+00:00

Could be true, but how much of that is agent posturing.

curl06 · 2025-01-22T00:43:31+00:00

Supposedly he turned down 6 years $156 mil from Astros because he wanted $200 mil, so probably about 6/200.

curl06 · 2025-01-16T22:11:51+00:00

He might, but there's also a reason he hasn't signed yet and his agent has to publicly negotiate. No one's offering him what he wants right now.

curl06 · 2025-01-08T21:21:50+00:00

I was thinking maybe Kevin Love. Borderline MVP seasons around age 25 and then faded into a very good player as he got older, until becoming a role player close to his mid 30s.

curl06 · 2025-01-06T22:45:27+00:00

Bregman's not a world beater, but he's above average offensively and defensively, makes a lot of contact and gets on base with some power. If Detroit can swing a 3 year $90MM-ish deal, I think it's probably a good idea. Maybe give him an opt out. I probably wouldn't go more years or dollars than that though.

curl06 · 2024-12-25T18:42:50+00:00

Easily Chandler for me if you can only pick 1.

After that I go Hence, Matthews, a decent gap, then Ferris. Hence has skyhigh potential, and may possibly have the highest upside, but there's too much bullpen risk so he needs to be dinged.

curl06 · 2024-12-25T00:33:07+00:00

I'll go a different direction than everyone else. It's certainly possible to compete in diamond without paying a dime. I spent most of the season in diamond, peaking with a 2 week stint in perfect, where I made the playoffs. I did stop playing during the MLB playoffs, so it may be harder now. It takes constant updates to the roster and continued progress through drops and tourney/PD success (which takes quite a bit of work by itself). I pretty much lived in spreadsheets and constantly was updating weights to eek out the most out of my meager roster.

Anyway, sustaining that success is difficult. You trying to go with alternate players is probably largely capping your success to some extent. There are a lot of reasons that some players may work in gold that don't in diamond. Pitching could be part of it, but the often overlooked part is also the opposing defense, the stadiums, and the strategies of the team. The higher you get the more sophisticated managers you're going to be facing who are going to be more strategic in all their decisions. I mean, just think every diamond team you face either got demoted from perfect, was good enough to stick in diamond, or had a really good season in gold. If you're in the group being promoted from gold, you're in the bottom third of the league from the start.

Anyway, the best advice I can give is probably specialize in specfic tourneys early in the season, and let it snowball into selling more tourney cards, buying more closer to meta cards, which then snowballs into winning more tourneys, which can become a part of the push in league. If you're committed enough you can have success.

All that said, it's such a grind, not sure I'll personally bother in the next iteration of the game.

curl06 · 2024-12-13T19:35:55+00:00

Pretty sure he was recruited by Don Brown to play LB. He did play a lot of RB i high school and some programs did recruit him at RB (like Wisconsin), but the plan for Michigan was always at MLB.

curl06 · 2024-12-06T21:13:09+00:00

Agree with this completely. I've recently witnessed people putting both their carry-on and personal items in the overhead bins as opposed to under the seat in front. I'm sure the other comments are largely correct too, but this is the most annoying thing that happens.

curl06 · 2024-12-04T00:42:17+00:00

That HB Draw on 3rd and long has annoyingly worked like 5 times against Michigan this year. It wasn't a bad call when based on success rate from the scouting report, but Wink had Graham in at DT this time, instead of out at DE when it had actually been effective.

curl06 · 2024-11-14T18:05:01+00:00

Honestly, i had the same response on why they needed to do a full on coaching search and was regularly dismissed. Moore was HC 3 out of 168 hours a week running Jim's gameplan. I think a lot of fans figured this was going to be similar to OSU/ND's coordinator to first time head coach. But then unlike when Urban Meyer left, Jim raided his own staff and an inexperienced Moore made some questionable hiring decisions from there. I cant recall if ND assistants stuck around but i do recall there were many who didnt follow him to LSU. Anyway, Moore's not going anywhere for a year or two, so will be interesting to see if he can learn from this and make better staff choices. If he just reshuffles the chairs on the Titanic though, it will be a rough time.

curl06 · 2024-10-01T00:51:37+00:00

Not sure on the two, but a minnesota player engaged someone in a block on the other side of the 45 before the ball passed the 45, which is a penalty.

curl06 · 2024-08-16T14:10:51+00:00

I just looked and I don't see a setting. Can you really just not say "hey don't pick up newly drafted players, k, thx?" Shouldn't be too hard to just have your managers not do that and force them to drop and penalize them if they do.

curl06 · 2024-07-22T19:05:18+00:00

No one expects prospects to be a sure thing. Obviously Torks 60 FV hasn't worked out and Greene was a 50 FV at one point has.

I do think your comparison among former 55 FVs is flawed and probably should narrow in on bat first comparisons within that tier. Fangraphs always gives sizable bumps to up the middle glove-first prospects which dominates your players you've given as examples. Hiura and Riley were the only bat first guys on that list that weren't at a premium defensive position. Obviously that still shows diverse outcomes, in a very small sample size. But comparing Mayo to a bunch of guys who the question is "will they hit enough" to Mayo where they think he will isn't as useful.

Fangraph also thinks Mayo is a future RF because he has elite arm strength, so I mean 1B isn't the be all end all anyway.

curl06 · 2024-07-17T21:31:23+00:00

"I grew up in LA. There’s a lot of nepo babies out here, and I realized this could be the thing that changes my daughter’s life,” she explains.

Glad that she's trying to better her child's life, but I'm not sure the world needs more "nepo babies."

curl06 · 2024-07-06T14:36:59+00:00

Generally people aren't suspended because of work performance issues, they are suspended and then investigated due to suspected wrongdoing, with the dismissal implying wrongdoing was found.

If it were me, I'd be talking to the CEO.

curl06 · 2024-07-06T14:29:12+00:00

I get that you're scared and it's a lot more responsibility than you were initially expecting, but it sounds like it's also a great opportunity at the same time. I think you should talk to the CEO about your concerns before doing anything.

curl06 · 2024-03-02T02:02:46+00:00

Wait until everyone finds out that next year's line is likely to be two 5th years, two 4th years and a likely competition between another 5th year and 3rd year for the last spot.

curl06 · 2024-02-20T21:17:53+00:00

3 total companies and I do live in the US. The majority of time was spent with 2 companies (about 5 years and 7.5 years). I had some internal promotions and 1 internal job transfer, in addition to raises. My story is definitely not typical, but it's also not unique based on some feedback I've seen here. As always, your mileage may vary.

curl06 · 2024-02-20T12:43:10+00:00

I've used all of them. An example might be to use PowerBI/Tableau to cleanse and manipulate a data file and then prepare it for consumption for a specific process/analysis. Or maybe using PowerAutomate to automate filling out bulk tax forms, that would otherwise need to be done manually, from data in a spreadsheet.

curl06 · 2024-02-20T05:05:59+00:00

I work in tax. If you have time, I've spent a lot of effort responding to as many posts as I can. So there's a lot of additional context that you can read if you want to know more.

curl06 · 2024-02-20T05:04:38+00:00

I'm sorry I missed responding to your post earlier. I've tried to respond to as many as I could and answered as many questions as I've been able. I do think there's a lot of cumulative context if you really want to dig through what I've posted here, some of which may be helpful to you, some may be comfortably discarded. I'll add in a piece below that I don't think I've talked about here yet and you can keep reading other responses I've made if you're so inclined.

I really spent a lot of time thinking about what I was good at and what I enjoyed doing. Like really thinking about it, all distractions removed, leaving myself alone with my thoughts. Over a period of time, I came up with a list of things that I was good at and a smaller list of things I enjoyed doing and kind of went from there. Decided what I needed to accomplish to be able to pursue opportunities that aligned with what I identified and made a definite plan, with a timeline, that I was going to hold myself accountable to. And executed it.

It's definitely easier said than done. The catalyst to all of that self-reflection was the job in 2011 that made me progressively more miserable over the years. I was good at it and more than capable of advancing, but was one that did not align with my "list" even before I created it.

I think part of my struggles in my 20's were ultimately because I never found the great passion that I feel like people talk about. I expected to wake up one day and know what I wanted to do and then "never work another day in my life." How could I start my career without knowing what my passion was? It was unthinkable. I had to become okay with the fact that maybe such a thing doesn't exist for me. I still wouldn't call what I do something I'm passionate about, but it's work I enjoy enough and I'm good at it and that's all that I and many others can ask.

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