ek wrote:doc and cc is pretty damn close i think

etched Chaos wrote:The problem with your comparisons Lethal is that you're not accounting for the fact that the rotation usually has double the IP of the pen and sometimes even more. So our rotation advantage means double, which makes us #1, gg Yanks.

etched Chaos wrote:MLB the Show's rating have been released, the Phillies are ranked #3 for pitching, with the Yanks #1. This may mean nothing to most of you, but for us avid baseball gamers, it's an atrocity to have the Phils disrespected like this.

lethal wrote:

etched Chaos wrote:The problem with your comparisons Lethal is that you're not accounting for the fact that the rotation usually has double the IP of the pen and sometimes even more. So our rotation advantage means double, which makes us #1, gg Yanks.

No, I said that we have a sizeable advantage at 2 and 3. The Yanks 2 and 3 would be the 5th and 6th best pitchers of the 10. The Phillies have a clear rotation advantage. I'd take the Phillies, but I can see someone taking the Yankees. It is at least a plausible argument. The Giants? That's not a plausible argument to me.

stevelxa476 wrote:

etched Chaos wrote:MLB the Show's rating have been released, the Phillies are ranked #3 for pitching, with the Yanks #1. This may mean nothing to most of you, but for us avid baseball gamers, it's an atrocity to have the Phils disrespected like this.

They were 2 or 3 last year too.

etched Chaos wrote:

lethal wrote:

etched Chaos wrote:The problem with your comparisons Lethal is that you're not accounting for the fact that the rotation usually has double the IP of the pen and sometimes even more. So our rotation advantage means double, which makes us #1, gg Yanks.

No, I said that we have a sizeable advantage at 2 and 3. The Yanks 2 and 3 would be the 5th and 6th best pitchers of the 10. The Phillies have a clear rotation advantage. I'd take the Phillies, but I can see someone taking the Yankees. It is at least a plausible argument. The Giants? That's not a plausible argument to me.

Our rotation is better no? It accounted for 73% of our IP last season, the Yankees pen accounted for 32% of their IP. So if the rotation is roughly twice as important than the pen and usually a bit more, then surely our having the better rotation removes any plausibility for taking the Yanks? Unless of course we had the Orioles or Astros pen, but we don't. No matter how you compare the two teams, the rotation comes first, and whomever has the better rotation comes out on top unless there's a serious problem with the pens.

lethal wrote:

etched Chaos wrote:

lethal wrote:

etched Chaos wrote:The problem with your comparisons Lethal is that you're not accounting for the fact that the rotation usually has double the IP of the pen and sometimes even more. So our rotation advantage means double, which makes us #1, gg Yanks.

No, I said that we have a sizeable advantage at 2 and 3. The Yanks 2 and 3 would be the 5th and 6th best pitchers of the 10. The Phillies have a clear rotation advantage. I'd take the Phillies, but I can see someone taking the Yankees. It is at least a plausible argument. The Giants? That's not a plausible argument to me.

Our rotation is better no? It accounted for 73% of our IP last season, the Yankees pen accounted for 32% of their IP. So if the rotation is roughly twice as important than the pen and usually a bit more, then surely our having the better rotation removes any plausibility for taking the Yanks? Unless of course we had the Orioles or Astros pen, but we don't. No matter how you compare the two teams, the rotation comes first, and whomever has the better rotation comes out on top unless there's a serious problem with the pens.

Jesus, get over it man. I'm saying that it is at least a plausible argument that I wouldn't dismiss out of hand and you're treating that statement as me saying I agree that the Yankees pitching staff is better than the Phillies. Christ, I said the Phillies are better and I pointed out why.

You're arguing over the rankings in a video game for God's sake.

Barry Jive wrote:i can't believe lethal is a Yankees fan. wtf man

Slowhand wrote:

Slowhand wrote:I am at the carpenter complex watching the Philadelphia phillies practice their baseball moves.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING! SARGE AND WHEELS!

And somebody who looked like 1, but I was too scurred to ask.

Ryan Howard, PHI (Left Achilles Surgery)

Howard’s recovery from surgery on his torn left achilles tendon has been a rollercoaster ride. He was spotted taking grounders from a stationary position as well as running late last week, but with a limp. Subsequently, it was revealed that one of the stitches had a seroma forming around it. While this sounds ominous, a seroma is merely a pocket of fluid very similar to a cyst. This far out from surgery, the stitches involved are not the ones that you see on the skin’s surface, but rather a buried stitch used to close tissues deeper under the skin; the cyst developed become the body views it as a foreign invader. The body begins to “spit the stitch,” attempting to push it out of the body. This is not at all uncommon following surgery, particularly plastic surgery or mastectomies, and is different from an abscess in that it is not infected. They can be drained, but anytime you introduce a needle into the skin there is a chance infection will set in.

Howard is already in the batting cage and performing well. Even though the seroma qualifies as a setback, it is not much of one unless it becomes infected. For those asking about his limp, it is the result of being immobilized for a few months after surgery; his normal range of motion will come back over time.

lethal wrote:Nova/Worley - which was the bigger fluke?

bleh wrote:

lethal wrote:Nova/Worley - which was the bigger fluke?

career
nova: 3.86 ERA 4.08 FIP 4.20 XFIP
worley: 2.86 ERA 3.31 FIP 3.63 XRIP

Worley is clearly better.

1 wrote:looks like we'll be able to listen to wednesday's game here: http://www.seminoles.com/allaccess/?media=305698