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	<title>Comments on: The Problem With John Gibbons&#8217; Roster Usage</title>
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		<title>By: Arjonn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree there&#039;s no perfect criterion and also that the one you chose is generally okay. However, I think it would have been be less imperfect to define regulars differently; e.g. players who played regularly in Aug., and also that if you&#039;re going to use the data to suggest Gibbons&#039; roster usage is a problem (which I don&#039;t strongly disagree with fwiw), then using more comparable selection parameters would have strengthened the conclusion. 

There are fairly obvious factors that at least partly explain why teams like the ones you named are lower in regular usage than the Jays; e.g. CHC and WAS have had big leads and thus haven&#039;t had to lean on their regulars as much as the Jays have, while BOS has players like Leon and Benintendi who started getting regular time too late to meet the 300 PA threshold whereas the Jays have no one who fits this description.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree there&#8217;s no perfect criterion and also that the one you chose is generally okay. However, I think it would have been be less imperfect to define regulars differently; e.g. players who played regularly in Aug., and also that if you&#8217;re going to use the data to suggest Gibbons&#8217; roster usage is a problem (which I don&#8217;t strongly disagree with fwiw), then using more comparable selection parameters would have strengthened the conclusion. </p>
<p>There are fairly obvious factors that at least partly explain why teams like the ones you named are lower in regular usage than the Jays; e.g. CHC and WAS have had big leads and thus haven&#8217;t had to lean on their regulars as much as the Jays have, while BOS has players like Leon and Benintendi who started getting regular time too late to meet the 300 PA threshold whereas the Jays have no one who fits this description.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt Gwin</title>
		<link>http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/09/19/the-problem-with-john-gibbons-roster-usage/#comment-11533</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, there&#039;s no perfect solution, and therefore they&#039;ll definitely be some that don&#039;t fit the model. But having looked at the numbers, 300 PA generally captures the desired &quot;non-regular roster players&quot;.

And that&#039;s also true, but all of the teams are there; it&#039;s a mix. You have contending teams like the Red Sox, Cubs, Nationals, and Mariners in the middle.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure, there&#8217;s no perfect solution, and therefore they&#8217;ll definitely be some that don&#8217;t fit the model. But having looked at the numbers, 300 PA generally captures the desired &#8220;non-regular roster players&#8221;.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s also true, but all of the teams are there; it&#8217;s a mix. You have contending teams like the Red Sox, Cubs, Nationals, and Mariners in the middle.</p>
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		<title>By: Arjonn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jays&#039; usage of regulars would still be high, but using 300 PA prior to Sept. to define who is and isn&#039;t one seems somewhat curious. It causes players like Bregman, Sanchez et al not to be classed as regulars because they became regulars too late in the season to accumulate the 300 PA. But such players were regulars by the beginning of the period being measured, Sept. 

In addition, while it&#039;s interesting to see all the teams, quite a few aren&#039;t particularly appropriate comps since the ones that are out of the pennant race and the ones with big leads are in situations where they can more easily use their expanded rosters.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Jays&#8217; usage of regulars would still be high, but using 300 PA prior to Sept. to define who is and isn&#8217;t one seems somewhat curious. It causes players like Bregman, Sanchez et al not to be classed as regulars because they became regulars too late in the season to accumulate the 300 PA. But such players were regulars by the beginning of the period being measured, Sept. </p>
<p>In addition, while it&#8217;s interesting to see all the teams, quite a few aren&#8217;t particularly appropriate comps since the ones that are out of the pennant race and the ones with big leads are in situations where they can more easily use their expanded rosters.</p>
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