You're An Internet Baseball Fan, And The Royals Make You Look Stupid

"...But what this is, is a lesson in humility, because ultimately this game will surprise you. Opinions are fine, but in baseball you'd best be careful about expressing them with near-certainty, because nothing is certain.

You can never know who's going to be good and who's going to be bad, and this year's Royals are making sure everybody, with luck, keeps that in mind."

Jeff Sullivan | Baseball Nation

Jeff knows I love him but sometimes it feels like there's this imaginary saber guy making definitive judgments that needs to be torn back down every once in a while.

Is Jeff saying something I'm missing? Isn't this about cost rather than regression?

One only need to look at Rany's musings to get some feeling that we can combine relatively young (but disappointing) players at low-ish cost for potential benefit and see the requested mea culpa coming a mile away... which won't happen because nobody I know made any definitive statements otherwise. I could be wrong.

9 months ago Justin Bopp 2 comments 0 recs |

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Not worth signing up fo the SBN Baseball site, but I'll agree:

Title should have been “Four unusual things happened to the Royals: Not sure why I proceed to say the internet is involved”.
1. Cabrera had an AWFUL 2010. No one though he was going to put up a remarkably good 2011, “internet fan” or not. (I believe even Dayton Moore intimated that he wouldn’t have signed Melky if he knew Cain was going to be a Royal.)
2. Frenchy has had a lackluster career. Again NO ONE expected him to hit like Pujols against LHP, “internet fan” or not.
3. Tim Collins is a rookie and a relief pitcher. Will a rookie succeed at the ML level? Will a reliever be able to sustain success? Internet fans can only guess, but the same is true for baseball executives. He’s had mixed results, but his performance seems to vindicate those who were interested to see how his minor league numbers would translate to the ML (was anyone really making definitive, can’t-take-it-back statements about Collins? – that sounds doubtful, though maybe on Facebook (whom I don’t consider “likeminded”, btw)).
4. Don’t even get the Kila argument started again. Maybe he got a fair shot, maybe he didn’t. That argument is never going to be settled, and his situation is not a solid point of evidence that “internet fans” have an “egg-on-the-face situation” as suggested by JS in the comments section.

Kila's slash for Apr 20 to May 4, 2011, right before he was sent down: .276 / .344 / .448

by SagehenMacGyver47 on Aug 17, 2011 1:55 PM EDT reply actions