Here's a link to the Goose Egg article Ted brings up: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/go ... -pitchers/
GET IT HERE
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Consider yourself lucky. I thought the 6 year proposal was crazy. Id sign him to 2 tops.
Your only real shot would seem to be to release Crepin and use that small window to reallocate funds due him.
Damn it! bin Mubarak is going to get Hand, Foot, and Mouth, isn’t he?
Shit, Long Beach is gonna go 0-6
micro-transaction?jleddy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:14 pmBtw, the fact that a micro-transaction like the Allen/bin Mubarak deal (note: leaving off the bin from his last name is wrong, disrespectful and could end up you losing a hand in his home country) got so much coverage in a podcast is not only why the Brewster is the best OOTP league in existence, but also why The BBA Today is such a great podcast.
.245/.290/.380 is not a good hitter. That's what .240 with middling walk ability and 25 doubles looks like with no homers. Maybe he's more like .255/.305/.390. That's still a not very good hitter. 7 con 7 gap is a horrible hitter if you literally bring nothing else to the plate. bin Mubarak does have 5 Eye, so maybe he's just a bad hitter instead of a horrible one. If you are going to hit roughly zero homers, you have to be exceptional at something else to even get back to league average as a hitter, let alone be above average.jleddy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 4:33 pmI think bin Mubarak wasn’t given a fair shake, certainly by Ted.
• Ted projected a potential major league production of “.240 hitter with 25 doubles”...there are going to be less than ten catchers in the bigs that reach both those achievements this year.
• There are only eight major league catchers with 7 Contact, 7 Gap and 7 C Ability.
• The catching talent in the minors is TERRIBLE right now, so getting a backstop prospect with the potential to be better-than-replacement level isn’t bad, especially when it was for an expiring contract.
Now I don’t want to dump all on Ted...Ron, calling bin Mubarak’s outfield defense — and I use the term ‘defense’ extremely lightly — “a tiny small piece of value” is like calling a grain of sand “a tiny small piece of rock”.
I don’t think Shoeless (or anyone) is expecting bin Mubarak to be the next Hank Brewer. I think this was a very good deal for both parties, addressing needs now (defense, base running and depth for a contending Long Beach) and later (stocking the farm for a re-loading Sacramento).
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