Comments on: The Mike Jacobs Trade

By: joser

joser — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:06:39 +0000

And for the record, Jacob’s PROVEN output in 2009: .228/.297/.401, with 19/61

And, despite claims to the contrary, it’s 2010 and Butler is still with Royals. And so are guys like Yuniesky Betancourt. Those are indeed bricks you’ve got there. Unfortunately, you need fewer bricks and more actual players.

Man, what an epic thread.

By: Havoc

Havoc — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:26:36 +0000

His LD% has been declining every year, while his FB % rises

Not good with FB% rises but HR/FB does not….Not to mention a 20% IFFB…..that’s horrendous

By: Joe R

Joe R — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:26:35 +0000

I kind of feel bad for Jacobs because by all accounts he’s a nice guy who’s tried to improve his fatal flaw as a hitter.

TECHNICALLY his walk rate is 9.36% in 2009, up from 6.94% in 2008. Doesn’t help much when everything else hits the crapper, though.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:08:38 +0000

Dave doesn’t believe in that, whenever you don’t bow down to his thoughts he censors you. Wait that’s only on U.S.S. Mariner. It’s actually really annoying that he is a Mariner fan, I’d rather Dave was a Yankee fan… It’s like nailing Jessica Biel and then afterwards you realize that Justin Timberlake is still dickin’ her down. It makes you lose the appreciation for what you have. Dave is a egomaniac that thinks his opinion is that of a God and is beyond someone contesting it. For all the people that jump on his nuts, I’m sorry that you’ve grown up to believe that thinking for yourself is a priviledge and not a right. Dave Cameron is not the final word on baseball stat analysis, otherwise his work would be owned by a major league team and he wouldn’t have time to run two sites (badly).

By: Havoc

Havoc — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:43:40 +0000

Man you beat me to it Hahahah

I’d like to read from Sammy who expected Jacobs to hit 30-35 HRs

By: Phil Mackey

Phil Mackey — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:07:32 +0000

At this point, now that we’re nearly to the end of July, I think it’s safe to say…

LOL @ ignorant Royals fans.

How’s Mike Jacobs working out for you?

By: werzer

werzer — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:57:23 +0000

Where’s Bob? I miss him… He was so FUNNY!

By: Joof

Joof — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:16:04 +0000

Whoo! The Royals, doing things the Mariner way!

This move reminds me of all the terrible moves the Mariners made through the Bavasi years which made them terrible. I’m sorry Royals fans. =(

By: WardP

WardP — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:10:23 +0000

I felt much better about the comment spam I have to prune off of my own blog once I read this thread.

I forget who said, “we can disagree without being disagreeable,” but that’s what comes to mind here. That the first sentence of the first comment is the age-old harbinger of openmindedness, “you are an idiot,” is jarring and sad and funny and.. well, just classic.

Thanks to you, Dave (and the other writers here and at USSM) for putting yourselves out there this way. I haven’t had such a good laugh in awhile, and I needed one today.

By: Pray for the Mariners

Pray for the Mariners — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:29:46 +0000

Never though an article on a respected site claiming giving a replacement player more money than replacement value (*GASP*) could cause such hate-zors. At least this was memorable. (so the next big signing at the GM level is going to come from the doctorate pool… right? Guys?)