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Tippett's DIPS study (July 29, 2003)
Discussion ThreadPosted 4:49 p.m.,
July 29, 2003
(#1) -
cj
Greg Maddux's BABIP(.278) is lower than all but 2 of his teammates yet he is having one of his worst seasons in recent memory. Seems like his so called "ability" to prevent hits on balls on play really doesn't mean much. IOW, even if he does has this ability that Tippett says he has, it can be ignored and we can still see his true ability coming through. Maddux is getting old and it is showing. He just gave up his career high 20th homerun and its only August!. What do you guys think about this?
Tippett and DIPS (August 1, 2003)
Posted 5:45 p.m.,
August 1, 2003
(#20) -
cj
I am not a DIPS guru at all, but Greg Maddux's BABIP(.278) is lower than all but 2 of his teammates yet he is having one of his worst seasons in recent memory. Seems like his so called "ability" to prevent hits on balls on play really doesn't mean much. IOW, even if he does has this ability that Tippett says he has, it can be ignored and we can still see his true ability coming through. Maddux is getting old and it is showing. He just gave up his career high 20th homerun and its only August!. What do you guys think about this?
Tippett and DIPS (August 1, 2003)
Posted 7:47 p.m.,
August 1, 2003
(#24) -
cj
No, my point was that its another example of BABIP ability being pretty much meaningless in evaluating a pitcher even though it appears to be there...And I have to say appears...there is so much noise going into that small number, who knows what is creating it..park, defense, luck, weather...all that stuff we talk about
Tippett and DIPS (August 1, 2003)
Posted 1:45 p.m.,
August 4, 2003
(#58) -
cj
sorry not related to this discussion...but is Rob Neyer pronounced nay-er, nare, or nye-er...its been bugging me.
Tippett and DIPS (August 1, 2003)
Posted 2:10 p.m.,
August 4, 2003
(#62) -
cj
They had Neyer on the radio here in Boston recently, and they pronounced it with a long I sound like ni-er or nye-er depending on how you do your phonetics. :)
Tippett and DIPS (August 1, 2003)