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<div>Not so slight. In the Luby comparison, Alvarado jumps from 10th to 3rd. Roe jumps from 14th to 6th. And a bunch of nobodies after about #20 go from the obscurity they deserve to real value.</div>
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<div class="yiv6475739962MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To Jim's point re multiple holds being available per game, the main thing I was trying to do w/ my approach is to value both holds and saves
equally, <u>relative to the number of saves and holds available</u>. The ratio was pretty close to 2:1 last year (actually about 2.1:1). So if we go to a 2:1 ratio, then we'd be valuing all available holds and all available saves approximately equally.
I think if you look at Buddha's comparison, the most obvious and questionable shifts in value involve middle relievers that aren't particularly good pitchers but get a lot of appearances in the sixth or seventh inning--e.g., Chaz Roe. To me, those guys are
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having some value but I still view saves more important for several reasons. Like it or not but saves are an official statistic of MLB but I don’t believe holds are. Only 1 save can be given out in a game whereas more than 1 hold can be given. Baseball is
a tradition bound game more than most sports and the save and closer has the tradition behind it whereas holds do not. If we all want to go total saber, we’d get rid of Wins and BA too. So in sum if we make a change, I’m in favor of weighting saves more heavily.
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<div class="yiv6475739962MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cc: Frank Luby <<a href="mailto:zachfehsvater@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:zachfehsvater@yahoo.com">zachfehsvater@yahoo.com</a>>
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Seriously though, I’m with Andy. Gives a purpose and a strategy to those many many pitchers I refer to as DNH guys (as in “do no harm”).<br clear="none">
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I would be fine with immediate implementation.<br clear="none">
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> On Feb 11, 2019, at 3:25 PM, Andy Klein <<a href="mailto:anrklein@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:anrklein@gmail.com">anrklein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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> I proposed this last spring and received a distinctly unenthusiastic response. But I am re-proposing that we move to Saves + Holds as a category instead of just Saves. That better reflects the reality of MLB pitching value today. It also would end what
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> I would be up for doing this immediately -- and I say that as someone who will otherwise retain a closer. But I suppose the typical way of doing this would be to make it effective next season.<br clear="none">
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> Last year, we agreed to implement the change if we voted to do so by mid-season. But the proposal died for lack of interest.<br clear="none">
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> -Andy<br clear="none">
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