Always the Jake

Unpredictable mix of satire, Guardians analysis, and random thoughts. If you’re looking for an account that sticks to sports, look elsewhere. Tweets by AJ Baez.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

BREAKING: Tigers to rename Comerica Park to “Fifth Third Park” after the current season.

The name change celebrates the franchise’s fifth time finishing third place or lower in the current decade.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @ObscureExReds @BaseballWRLD_ When someone has this much trouble answering a yes or no question they always know they are wrong.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ObscureExReds @ScottBaldwin730 RBI does not correlate to a mental skill. If that were true, it would be repeatable from season to season. It isn't.

Of the top 15 players on the RBI leaderboard last season, only 3 were in the top 15 this season.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ObscureExReds @ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ You're explaining why he should have. By your own logic, you're losing. Should tell you how silly your logic is.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ObscureExReds @ScottBaldwin730 RBI totals vary from year to year specifically because they aren't a reflection of a player's skill set. They are a reflection of circumstances when a player came up to bat.

More RBIs correlate with better hitting, but weakly.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ObscureExReds @ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ Seems like you're losing then.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @ObscureExReds @BaseballWRLD_ I didn't restate the point dumbass

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ABSGOBLIN WAR doesn't say runs created matter more than runs prevented.

Anti-WAR people say that runs created matter more than runs prevented.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

The anti-WAR crowd has become very loud in the past 24 hours but not one of them has been able to explain to me why they believe runs created are more valuable than runs prevented.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @ObscureExReds @BaseballWRLD_ Yes or no, final chance to answer the question.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

1) I don't want to ignore them, I want to observe them through the lens that a player's body of work over the entire season matters more, and that there's a lot of random variance in 150 cherry-picked PAs. A player's RBI total varies wildly from year to year, it's not really a skill-based statistic.

25% of the season is a small sample size and nobody reasonable would suggest otherwise.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ObscureExReds @ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ Doing something rare doesn't mean a player had the better year.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ @ObscureExReds 150 ABs is not a full season sample size, no

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @ObscureExReds @BaseballWRLD_ Are you going to use a three-game sample at Great American Ballpark to seriously evaluate Carson Benge, yes or no. I'm not listening to anything until you answer the question, because it's important for me to value my time and energy appropriately.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ @ObscureExReds If you're dead serious about putting any amount of stock into a three-game sample size please let me know so I can block you now.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

It's not 150-200 PA. It's 150 on average. It's such a small sample size that it's not responsible to draw conclusions from.

In order to justify Sal Stewart's case for the award you'd have to base it almost entirely on those 150 ABs while ignoring the entirety of those players' remaining body of work on both offense AND defense AND baserunning. It's senseless. The writers got this one wrong.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ObscureExReds @ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ Doing something rare doesn't make a player better than another player overall.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ @ObscureExReds I'd rather have Carson Benge hitting 3rd for me. He's the better hitter overall. The average MLB hitter takes fewer than a quarter of their at-bats with runners in scoring position, and it would be irresponsible to give the edge to either player because of a 150 AB sample size

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

It doesn't really matter if it's dumb to you, the walls at Great American Ballpark are five feet closer than Citi Field's walls on average and Citi Field has an 18-foot wall in right center field while GABP's walls are no higher than 10 feet throughout the park. It's physically easier to hit home runs and doubles there.

Saying the argument is dumb is basically just pretending physics doesn't exist.

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@jfew13 Elly De La Cruz
Trea Turner
Anthony Volpe

Just to name a few off the top of my head.

Dumbass

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

“How does he only have 2 WAR? His defense was that bad? He didn’t steal enough bases?”

It seems like you already know the answer so why ask the question? 😂

[Foul Territory @FoulTerritoryTV]

162 games played, 32 HR, 112 RBI. 😮‍💨

Sal Stewart fittingly won NL Rookie of the Year. HOW did he only have a 2.0 WAR?

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ @ObscureExReds Benge on the road: .288 AVG, .345 OBP, .480 SLG
Stewart on the road: .269 AVG, .324 OBP, .456 SLG

Do you people even look things up before you start arguing?

[Always the Jake @JacobsFieldRBW]

@ScottBaldwin730 @BaseballWRLD_ @ObscureExReds It's an exaggeration but not by much. Based on homer height and distance, Benge would have had 24 homers if he'd played in Great American Ballpark and Sal Stewart would have had only 26 playing at Citi Field.

Just because facts make you mad doesn't mean they aren't true.