March 2009

Joe Morgan -- Crown King of MLB (TM) Pride -- opined, before DiceK took the mound against Roy Oswalt, that (1) Oswalt would win, (2) DiceK would start walking people, because intimidated by MLB (TM) hitters, and (3) that the only reason the MLB (TM) guys weren't winning was because it was "a tournament atmosphere" (in which accidents could happen).

Later in the game, after DiceK and Team Japan crushed Oswalt and America, a more subdued Morgan marvelled at DiceK's ability to make great pitches in deep counts, and recommended he stop pitching as though he were "intimidated" by the names he grew Read more

Q.  Can you prove that it's OK to bring Jon in, in the 8th?  Do you know it's safe?

A. No.  I doubt anybody knows.

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Q.  Look, blast it, no matter how you look at it, it's better to be safe than sorry.

A. I think that DiceK should throw only 60 pitches once every two weeks.  Can you prove it's OK for Dice to pitch more than 30 pitches a week?  Well, then, it's better to be safe than sorry, right?

If "better safe than sorry" is a law of baseball gravity, then everybody throws one pitch a year, right?

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Fangraphs had an interesting article http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/dice-bb which illustrates, very well, the difference between the varied points of view in baseball cyber-space.  In this paradigm, we simply adjust Matsuzaka's "luck stats" (strand rate, BABIP, HR/F*, etc) so that they are equal to the league average, and boom.  We realize that you can't walk 5 men a game and be a good pitcher, ergo, Matsuzaka isn't a good pit Read more