Three Southpawteers
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 8:34 am
I'm drafting in a DC. We're in the 14th round and Rich Hill is still available. I just passed him up (again).
I don't trust Rich Hill.
Rich Hill is the deadbeat family member who asks for money. He says he'll re-pay it.
You know better.
You know that whatever comes out of your wallet, will never go back in.
Rich Hill last threw 150 innings in...wait for it...2007!
He's 39.
Jack Benny always answered "39" when asked his age.
Let Benny draft Hill.
Yeah, Benny Hill reference.
James Paxton shares commonalities with Rich Hill.
Paxton is left handed. So is Hill.
Paxton strikes out more than a batter an inning. So does Hill.
And yes, like Hill, Paxton has thrown over 150 innings one time.
Drafters forgive that.
We suffer from recency virus.
The writers call it recency bias, but it effects everybody.
If something effects everybody, it's not bias.
It's like saying I'm biased in preferring the sky being overhead.
Anyway, Paxton is forgiven for only throwing 150 innings once because he did it last year.
FIFTH ROUND!
Then traded to the Yankees...
FOURTH ROUND!
Recency virus has made drafters forget that Paxton averages less than 100 innings per season.
I don't flat-out distrust Paxton. He's not the deadbeat asking for money.
Instead, he is the fellow asking you to overbid for an item at a silent auction because the money goes to charity.
Fourth round?
What kind of price point is that?
We're not a charity.
On Cyber Monday of all days, it just seemed like a bad deal.
One more.
And this pitcher, too, is a lefty.
Jon Lester.
Lester has become a non-favorite the past two years.
Falling from a fourth or fifth round choice to now, like Rich Hill, available in double digit rounds.
Lester does not make his owners feel screwed by being injured.
Lester just suffers from getting older.
He strikes out less batters. Is less dominant.
Drafters don't like less dominant.
While Hill and Paxton can boast still striking out over a batter an inning, Lester cannot.
In fact, Paxton struck out 50 more batters than Lester in 20 less innings.
While some may think that the words 'Strike outs' was the key word to that less sentence, the word 'Innings' was the Star.
Paxton is good, but he has never struck out a batter from the spa in the locker room.
Lester has earned the terms 'Innings eater' and 'serviceable'.
But we'll take serviceable over injured every time during the season.
There you have it.
Three lefties.
One, old but dominant.
Two, injured but dominant.
Three, serviceable, but not dominant.
Each making us feel a little uneasy.
Another reason for our love/hate relationship with drafting.
I don't trust Rich Hill.
Rich Hill is the deadbeat family member who asks for money. He says he'll re-pay it.
You know better.
You know that whatever comes out of your wallet, will never go back in.
Rich Hill last threw 150 innings in...wait for it...2007!
He's 39.
Jack Benny always answered "39" when asked his age.
Let Benny draft Hill.
Yeah, Benny Hill reference.
James Paxton shares commonalities with Rich Hill.
Paxton is left handed. So is Hill.
Paxton strikes out more than a batter an inning. So does Hill.
And yes, like Hill, Paxton has thrown over 150 innings one time.
Drafters forgive that.
We suffer from recency virus.
The writers call it recency bias, but it effects everybody.
If something effects everybody, it's not bias.
It's like saying I'm biased in preferring the sky being overhead.
Anyway, Paxton is forgiven for only throwing 150 innings once because he did it last year.
FIFTH ROUND!
Then traded to the Yankees...
FOURTH ROUND!
Recency virus has made drafters forget that Paxton averages less than 100 innings per season.
I don't flat-out distrust Paxton. He's not the deadbeat asking for money.
Instead, he is the fellow asking you to overbid for an item at a silent auction because the money goes to charity.
Fourth round?
What kind of price point is that?
We're not a charity.
On Cyber Monday of all days, it just seemed like a bad deal.
One more.
And this pitcher, too, is a lefty.
Jon Lester.
Lester has become a non-favorite the past two years.
Falling from a fourth or fifth round choice to now, like Rich Hill, available in double digit rounds.
Lester does not make his owners feel screwed by being injured.
Lester just suffers from getting older.
He strikes out less batters. Is less dominant.
Drafters don't like less dominant.
While Hill and Paxton can boast still striking out over a batter an inning, Lester cannot.
In fact, Paxton struck out 50 more batters than Lester in 20 less innings.
While some may think that the words 'Strike outs' was the key word to that less sentence, the word 'Innings' was the Star.
Paxton is good, but he has never struck out a batter from the spa in the locker room.
Lester has earned the terms 'Innings eater' and 'serviceable'.
But we'll take serviceable over injured every time during the season.
There you have it.
Three lefties.
One, old but dominant.
Two, injured but dominant.
Three, serviceable, but not dominant.
Each making us feel a little uneasy.
Another reason for our love/hate relationship with drafting.