HQ Minor League Baseball Analyst Out
=== Jack Frost with a .310 OBP ===
Heard on the Weather Channel that 31% of the U.S. is covered in snow. Couldn't be warmer from Dr. D's war room in Bonney Lake, though. Baseball's here :- )
One of Mrs. D's 10 fave days of the year arrived on the 14th, and karma was served on the 15th: One of Dr. D's 10 fave days of the baseball season arrived. In the form of BaseballHQ's Minor League Baseball Analyst.
So SSI gets to wallow in the green pastures into which we 'net sheep have been led by Pastor Zduriencik. In Bushes Green ... He Leadeth We ... the sweeeeeeet waters byyyyyyyy...
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And, after we're done counting down (and moshing off) HQ's top 15, we'll all be enjoying the Arizona pre-season and getting back the fab reports on Senors Pineda, Robles y todos.
So the 101-loss crash is officially gone in SSI-land. Re-boot. We're oh-and-oh, lads :- )
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=== Givin' It Up for Gordon and Deloney ===
Not that any one top 15 is correct, unless it's G-Moneyball's. But Dr. D has HQ about eight Kentucky Derby lengths ahead of Baseball America, Fangraphs, HBT and the rest of the pack.
Gordon and Deloney have legitimately good judgment as to what matters and what doesn't, and they are as saber-literate as you or I (well, as saber-literate as you! ... ) are.
They're pretty much national G-Moneys, except able to ply their trades fulltime, and they are one of the few who pass Dr. D's acid test for national analysts: they're able to tell us (accurate) things that we did not know about local players.
Also included nowhere else, that I know of, are pitch velocities for every minor league pitcher in the book -- for virtually every pitch.
Take Erasmo Ramirez, for instance...
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