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Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire (9/11/15): Canha Can Do
Posted on September 11, 2015 by Jason
Last week's headliner, Franklin Gutierrez, didn't end up providing any value at all over the last week because of an injury, but outside of Gutierrez, last week's recommendations as a whole basically killed it. So hopefully you all we are able to capitalize on some of those players.
We have just a few weeks left in the season, so this is the time where you can't be afraid to waive certain players that are battling nagging injuries or are slumping pretty badly, because it is all about maximizing what little opportunities remain. So scavenge that waiver wire, play those streamers, and win your league! Let's look at some players who you might want to have on call, but first check out how last week's recommendations did.
***NOTE: To qualify as a waiver wire recommendation, a player must be owned in less than 50% of Yahoo and ESPN leagues and less than 60% of CBS leagues (players typically have higher ownership levels on CBS). Continue reading →
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Severino Looks Good In Pinstripes (and other notes from 8/5/15)
Posted on August 6, 2015 by Jason
The New York Yankees weren't exactly expected by many to be legitimate contenders this season as they were considered to be too old (average age of opening day lineup 33-34 years old), they had question marks revolving around some of their key players (Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira), and their starting pitching staff lacked depth and stability. But despite their age, the offense has performed very well on the heels of the resurgence of Rodriguez coming back from his long suspension and Teixeira swinging a healthy bat. The strong Yankee offense has been able to give the team a lot of leads and then the dominant back end of the bullpen, featuring the combination of Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller, has been a nearly unbreakable unit. This fierce combination of solid offense and a dominant bullpen has led to a current 1st place position in the AL East standings. However, one pre-season notion has been right — the Yankees starting pitching has been very underwhelming overall.
Yankees starting pitching ranks 23rd in the Majors in ERA at 4.35, which is the lowest ranking of any team that is currently locked into a playoff spot if the season were to end today. Masahiro Tanaka has performed pretty well, but he spent some time on the DL and is not nearly as dominant as last season. C.C. Sabathia is not earning his pinstripes as he is statistically one of the worst pitchers in the league. Nathan Eovaldi, in his first year in the Bronx, has failed to have his breakout season once again. And a carousel of pitchers in the #5 spot have not been giving the Yankees the strongest of performances.
The most consistent starting pitcher for the Yankees up to this point, both performance and health wise, has been Michael Pineda who owns a 9-7 record, 3.97 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, and 117 K/15 BB in 118 IP. But last week, Pineda was scratched from his scheduled start and was placed on the DL with tightness in his pitching elbow and he is is expected to miss all of August. So without making a move at the trading deadline for a starting pitcher, the Yankees appeared to be in a heap of trouble and that left them to promote their top pitching prospect, Luis Severino, to start Wednesday's game against the Red Sox.
Severino is a long, wiry pitcher at the age of 21 and he has progressed very well through the Minors, pitching at AAA before his promotion. Severino throws an electric fastball that reaches the upper 90's and he complements it with an above average changeup and a developing slider. There have been concerns about his small size making him more suitable as a relief pitcher down the road, but there are some reports that believe Severino can make it as a starting pitcher and the Yankees appear to be content to give him a try in that role.
Throughout his Minor League career, Severino has posted a 2.30 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 2.27 BB/9, and 9.06 K/9. He possesses great strikeout potential that is matched with very good control for a pitcher that is at such a tender age. This combination of qualities is something that should bode well for him as he makes his first tour through the league as the fill-in for Pineda, which could lead to a permanent stay, even after Pineda returns, should he impress the Yankees brass.
Severino's debut went about as well as it could've despite being charged with a loss. The young righty posted a line of 5 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, and 7 K on 94 pitches. His pitch count ran a little high, but the upside is easy to see and he turned a lot of heads in this divisional matchup.
Severino is the type of pitcher that clearly needs to be owned in all dynasty/keeper leagues and he should also be owned in a large majority of redraft leagues due the type of immediate upside that he possesses as a high strikeout, low walk pitcher. And Severino could prove to be quite the difference maker for both the Yankees and fantasy squads down the stretch as the playoffs approach. Don't sleep too long on him.
Let's check out the rest of Wednesday's action… Continue reading →
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Mining for Cole in Texas (and other notes from 7/29/15)
Posted on July 30, 2015 by Jason
The next big name on the move as the trade deadline nears is set to be Cole Hamels who will be heading to the Texas Rangers along with reliever Jake Diekman in exchange for starting pitcher Matt Harrison and a barrage of prospects that includes Jorge Alfaro, Alec Asher, Jerad Eickhoff, Nick Williams, and Jake Thompson.
The Philadelphia Phillies were in a good position to land a package that they wanted because Hamels is not just a 2-3 month rental for the remainder of this season. Instead, he is under contract through 2018 with a vesting option for 2019, so that meant that even non-contending teams could make a run for the 31-year old lefty and that's exactly what happened with the 3rd place Rangers landing him. However, the Rangers are just 4 games back of the second AL Wildcard spot, so perhaps they even think that they could potentially contend for a post-season berth.
Hamels moves from the hitter friendly Citizens Bank Park to another hitter friendly stadium at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas. So there's no real win or loss with the home park switch, but switching leagues from the National League to the American League should be perceived as a negative impact for Hamels' fantasy value. His ERA, WHIP, and strikeout rate should all be expected to move in wrong directions, but that doesn't mean that he still won't be valuable. And there are some occasions where the NL pitcher moving to the AL doesn't really see his stats suffer all that much, if at all.
The Rangers have had to endure a lot of injuries to their pitching staff this season, which kind of had them doomed from the get go once it was determined that their ace Yu Darvish needed to undergo Tommy John surgery before the season even began. So they likely have their sights set more on next season when Darvish hopefully returns before the All-Star break sometime. They hope that Hamels and Darvish can form a great 1-2 punch, though serious doubts should be had regarding Darvish and his control once he returns. All in all, it was a bold move for the Rangers who are starved for pitching, and Hamels will try to take the Rangers to the next level just like he did with the Phillies during the mid 2000's when they had a great run.
Diekman, a left-handed reliever, has a poor 5.15 ERA and 1.75 WHIP this season, but he's a power lefty that has some big time strikeout abilities and is under club control for a couple more years. He has the chance to develop into a nice bullpen piece for the Rangers if he can improve his walk rate.
Harrison should step right into the Phillies rotation, but his outlook shouldn't really change a whole lot since he's just rather mediocre and has been a walking injury the last two seasons. Three of the five prospects that the Phillies are receiving from the Rangers were ranked in the pre-season top 10 Rangers prospect list by Baseball America, so it appears that the Phillies did well and received a decent haul in return. But we'll have to wait and see how they pan out. Continue reading →
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Cueto Ditches the Reds, Now Bleeds Royal Blue (and other notes from 7/26/15)
Johnny Cueto was the next big name to be traded on Sunday as the Cincinnati Reds decided to get something in return for the impending free agent. Their trade partner was the Kansas City Royals who sent three prospects over to Cincinnati: Brandon Finnegan, John Lamb, and Cody Reed — all of whom are left-handed pitchers. Let's first take a look at what this trade does for the Royals and the fantasy impact it makes.
The reigning American League champion Royals have not slowed down at all this year as they have a 7.5 game lead in the AL Central and own the best record in the American League. They have been so successful behind a relentless offense, tremendous defense, and a dominant bullpen. The Royals offense is surely not a powerful one as they rank just 24th in the Majors in home runs, but they are very pesky and strikeout the least in all of baseball, which means they are constantly putting the ball in play and making things happen on the base paths. By any defensive rating system, the Royals defense ranks as the top defense in the league by a large margin. And their bullpen, also ranks the best in the league with a 2.12 ERA with the "HDH" formula of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis, and Greg Holland to work the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings.
What the Royals have severely lacked though this season with the loss of James Shields to the Padres is an ace type pitcher to step up and be the leader of the pitching staff. The young fireballer, Yordano Ventura, was expected to kind of take over the reigns, but he has struggled to put together a consistent performance. Jason Vargas, Danny Duffy, and Jeremy Guthrie are unspectacular options that are back end of the rotation type of starters who have not contributed much at all, and Vargas got hit with a season-ending injury this past week. Their most reliable starting pitcher so far has been the free agent signing of Edinson Volquez, but seldom does he display the ability to blow anyone away with ace type of stuff anymore and is not someone to anchor a staff. Out of starting pitchers this season, the Royals have received a 4.27 ERA, which ranks 22nd in the Majors, and they also have received the 2nd lowest amount of innings pitched from their starting pitchers.
So the need in Kansas City was apparent. Enter Mr. Cueto. Since 2011, Cueto has had the 2nd best ERA (2.51) next to Clayton Kershaw out of all pitchers with a minimum of 500 innings pitched. What's most impressive about that is he has done so despite pitching his home games in one of the most hitter friendly parks in the league at Great American Ballpark.
During those years, Cueto has posted BABIP marks of .249, .296, .238, and .234 this season. Now the .296 mark is around league average, but all the other marks are very low and the question of whether or not it is sustainable comes into play. Over the last two seasons, Cueto has been giving up more fly balls and has had a knack for inducing soft contact. So while the BABIP marks are low and he shouldn't be expected to maintain his current season mark, he still should have the ability to keep his BABIP lower than average over the course of the rest of the season with Kansas City. Throw in the fact that his new team has incredible range and defense all around the diamond and that speaks even more to the notion that Cueto can be a low BABIP machine as his defense will track down a lot of batted balls for him.
The switch from the NL to the AL should hurt his strikeout rate in theory since he will have to deal with pitching to the designated hitter instead of opposing pitchers. His current strikeout rate is at 8.27 K/9, so I would imagine that he might fall to a rate near 7.50 K/9 or lower over the remainder of the season. However, the home park switch from Great American Ballpark to Kaufmann Stadium is a nice move for him with Kauffman Stadium being much more friendly to pitchers. Also helping to offset any regression that he may incur in strikeout rate is the fact that he will be pitching for a winning team that has a shutdown bullpen. Despite an excellent 2.62 ERA, Cueto's win-loss record sits barely over .500 at 7-6. The Reds bullpen blew three wins for Cueto, so he could easily be in double digits in the win column already. So his new buddies down in the bullpen should be able to provide him a boost in win potential.
Overall, I definitely don't think that the trade for Cueto has any negative impact on his fantasy value. If anything, it should help him a bit as long as he doesn't falter under the greater spotlight of pitching for a 1st place team. And for the Royals, this is obviously a huge get for them as they look to make a return to the World Series. The Royals certainly needed to make a move to acquire an ace because it was going to be a rough go if they entered the post-season with Volquez as their number one guy, and Cueto's presence will also ease the workload of one of the most used bullpens in the league. Now let's take a look at the Reds side of it.
Out of the three prospects that the Reds received, Finnegan is by far the most attractive so he will be the main focus on the Reds side of the deal. Finnegan was drafted by the Royals in the 1st round just over a year ago and he made a rapid ascension to the Majors as the Royals brought him up late in the season as a bullpen arm. Finnegan then went on to shine in some high leverage situations in the post-season. The left-handed Finnegan is relatively small in stature for a Major League pitcher at 5'11" 185 lbs. and because of that, he often draws comparison to former closer great Billy Wagner. Finnegan doesn't throw as hard as Wagner did though, but he still comes in with some good velocity as he averages around 93 MPH on his heater. He complements his fastball with a slider and changeup, with the slider functioning as his primary out pitch.
He has compiled a 2.59 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, and 21 K/13 BB in 24.1 IP as a relief pitcher in the Majors, but the Reds will send him to AAA to get stretched out as a starting pitcher where he could possibly debut for them before the season ends. Finnegan's most immediate area of work appears to be in his control. In college at Texas Christian University before he was drafted, Finnegan did show some control issues and those same issues seem to be present in his short Major League work thus far. If he can figure out how to issue less walks then he can have a pretty good future in the league, but with just 85.1 IP as a professional since he was drafted last June, it's a little difficult to gauge where he is at and how he may or may not progress.
For redraft leagues, Finnegan is not really someone to pay attention to because he will be getting stretched out in the Minors, and if he does make it to the Reds Major League rotation this season, I wouldn't necessarily expect immediate success. For keeper and dynasty leagues though, Finnegan is well worth a look, though in any competitive dynasty league he shouldn't be available as a free agent.
Now let's take a look at the rest of Sunday's slate of action.
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Hamels' Potential Parting Gift to Philly (and other notes from 7/25/15)
Philadelphia Phillies ace Cole Hamels had been in the midst of a mostly bad run over his last 7 starts before Saturday, as he had 6.10 ERA and 1.57 WHIP since June 8. There were rumblings that the trade rumors surrounding him were adversely affecting his performance, but in what could be his final start as a member of the Phillies team that drafted him back in 2002, the lanky lefty put that notion to rest by firing a no-hitter with 13 strikeouts against the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Saturday.
With the no-hitter, Hamels improved to 6-7 with a 3.64 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, and 137 K/39 BB in 128.2 IP. While the ERA and WHIP are a bit on the high side in comparison to the rest of his career, his strikeout rate of 9.58 K/9 ranks as the best since his rookie season in 2006, and his current 3.14 xFIP would be the second best mark of his career (3.02 xFIP in 2011). Also, Hamels average fastball velocity is as high as it has ever been. So the 31-year old Hamels is surely showing that he's still got the stuff to be considered an ace in this league and he should be treated like one for fantasy purposes as well.
Hamels is still under contract through the 2018 season, scheduled to make $22.5 million in each remaining season with a $19 million vesting option for 2019. So if the Phillies do end up dealing him, this is not just a 2-3 month rental like David Price or Johnny Cueto would be. So any team that does trade for him is likely going to have to still give up a nice haul of prospects to the Phillies as they enter a rebuild mode. And any destination that he goes to, he is likely to get a boost in value because he will finally get away from the poor run support of the Phillies offense, and he also will be leaving the hitter friendly confines of Citizens Bank Park.
If I had to speculate on Hamels' destination, I would look for the Los Angeles Dodgers to become heavily involved as the deadline approaches. With a starting rotation that has been marred by season-ending injuries to Brandon McCarthy and Hyun-Jin Ryu, a current injury that Brett Anderson is dealing with, and getting very little production from a combination of Carlos Frias and Brandon Beachy in the 5th spot in their rotation, the Dodgers are surely in the market for a starting pitcher in a season where they have an excellent chance to go all the way. Also, acquiring Hamels, who is under team control through 2018, will give the team some insurance in the likely event that Zack Greinke exercises his opt out clause at the end of the year.
The Dodgers and Phillies are familiar trade partners as they completed a deal in the off-season that sent long-time Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins to Los Angeles. And the Dodgers surely have a strong enough farm system to put together a package that the Phillies would accept, but the question is if the Andrew Friedman led regime would be willing to part with their top prospects such as shortstop Kyle Seager or pitching phenom Julio Urias. The Phillies would likely want any deal to start with Urias as a future replacement to Hamels for their rotation. But the Dodgers could also try to attract the Phillies with a Major League talent like third baseman/outfielder Alex Guerrero who has a bat that's great enough to be a Major League regular. Of course, more players would have to added on along with Guerrero to get a deal done, but something definitely could be worked out.
Now let's take a look at Saturday's slate.
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Presto for Preston (and other notes from 7/22/15)
Preston Tucker is an outfielder that was drafted by the Houston Astros in the 7th round of the 2012 draft as a four-year standout at the University of Florida, and he's been a player in the Minors that has shown a nice power stroke and a bit of an advanced plate approach. After beginning the year at AAA and hitting .320 with 10 HR in just 25 games, the Astros promoted Tucker to the Majors in early May after George Springer landed on the 7-day DL with a concussion. At the time, it was unclear whether or not the Astros intended to keep Tucker on the roster once Springer was ready to return, but Tucker began to hit and the Astros kept him on as a left-handed bat since they were in 1st place in the division and in "win now" mode.
Tucker eventually hit a prolonged slump once the calendar flipped over to June as he had a .189 AVG for the month, but the Astros stuck with him, which shows the confidence that they have in him to be the type of player that they feel he can be (side note: The Astros also drafted Preston's younger brother Kyle Tucker with the 5th overall pick in this year's draft). And to even further show the Astros' faith in Tucker, he has been hitting out of the 2-hole since July 3 after Springer suffered yet another injury that landed him on the DL, and Tucker has responded very well in that role.
On Wednesday, Tucker belted 2 home runs and is now hitting .264 with 8 HR, 26 RBI, and 26 R for the season, and .321 with 4 HR, 9 RBI and 9 R since being inserted into the 2-hole. Springer isn't expected back for about another three weeks barring any setbacks, so Tucker seems likely to continue to be placed in a very favorable spot in the Astros lineup on a regular basis and he's got the skills to keep on improving his overall triple slash of .264/.324/.466. And in the Minors, he has a 25 HR and a 24 HR season to his name, so he definitely has the type of pop that can make him a useful fantasy commodity.
Along with the power potential, Tucker has shown an advanced plate approach in the Minors that I alluded to previously. Currently, Tucker has a walk rate of 7.6% and a strikeout rate of 20.0%. Neither number is terrible as they are actually right on par with the league averages of a 7.5% walk rate and a 20.1% strikeout rate, and his 20.0% strikeout rate is actually lower than average for a player with his type of 25+ HR power. But in his Minor League career, he had a 9.3% walk rate and a 16.4% strikeout rate. However, his strikeout rate in 420 plate appearances in AAA is 21.9%, so perhaps he won't get too much better than his current rate there, but he's still just 25 years old and can develop those skills with more experience in the Majors. Just know that the potential is there for improvement in this area and this is something that makes him someone to monitor for now and for the future.
Another aspect of Tucker's Minor League game that hasn't yet translated over to his Major League career so far is his ability to left-handed pitching. For the season against southpaws, he is hitting just .218/.259/.255 with no home runs in 55 AB, and this poor hitting performance for a lefty vs. left-handed pitching is not atypical for many players. However, according to Minor League Central, Tucker actually hit left-handers very well throughout his time in the Minors at .321/.377/.512. That line is actually better than his line against right-handed Minor League pitching. So while he may not be hitting Major League lefties all that well at the moment, there is some definite capability of improving, and is probably the reason why manager A.J. Hinch is not being afraid of putting him high up in the batting order against lefties.
Once Springer is ready to return to the lineup Tucker will probably get bumped down in the order and also lose some playing time, but he appears to be showing enough to be given a good amount of consideration for both season long fantasy leagues and in DFS. At the very least, it's looking like Tucker can at least be on the strong side of a platoon, and Adam Lind is a good example of the type of player that we might see Tucker develop into in the future. Provided that he doesn't make too much noise from now till the end of the season, Tucker could enter the 2016 season as quite a sleeper.
Let's take a look at the rest of Wednesday's action.
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Robinson Cano? More like Robinson Can-blow! (and other notes from 5/30/15)
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Jason
On Saturday, Robinson Cano went 2 for 4 and hit his 2nd HR of what has been a extremely painful season for the Mariners second baseman and his fantasy owners. But could the longball on Saturday be a sign of things to come? I definitely would not count on it.
I was very down on Cano entering the year and this is what I said about him in the pre-season: "It seems to me as if Cano is just in the decline phase of his career and I personally would not have him on any of my teams as his name value exceeds what I perceive to be his actual value."
If you thought the 1990's had a lot of bad trends with nu-metal music, frosted tips, and playing pogs at recess, then wait till you see Cano's laundry list of horrible trends this season that give him little hope of returning to fantasy stardom.
With 4 straight seasons from 2010-13 of ISO marks above .200, Cano's power suffered a severe decline last season to a .139 ISO, and this season it is even worse at .094.
Cano entered the 2014 season with a career ground ball/fly ball ratio of 1.54. Last season, he ended up with a ratio of 2.13 and also has the same 2.13 ratio so far this season. Hitting the ball on the ground more is an indicator of his loss in power.
The average distance on his HR + fly balls has declined from 292 feet in 2013, to 279 feet in 2014, to 272 feet this season. The loss in average distance here is also indicative of his loss in power.
After having walk rates of 8.8%, 9.5%, and 9.2% from 2012-14, Cano is walking only 5.9% of the time this year.
Even though last season Cano saw a big dip in his power, he still showed great contact skills with a 10.2% strikeout rate (2nd best of his career). However, along with a further dip in power this year, he is now striking out at a career high rate of 15.6%.
With a .323 career BABIP, Cano has long been able to be well above the average player in this regard. But he currently has a .297 mark this year, which would be the 2nd lowest of his career.
The low BABIP this year can be attributed to only going to the opposite field 18.8% of the time this year, which would be the lowest mark of his career and well below his career rate of 26.8%.
Not using the opposite field as much along with the career high ground ball/fly ball ratio and lower BABIP suggests that he is pulling the ball on the ground a lot into shifted defenses for easy outs.
With all this being said, if you're a sad Cano owner then it would be perfectly fine to bench him, or even better if you can find an owner hopeful of a Cano rebound to take him off your hands. For the rest of the season from May 31 onward, I will give Cano a very unexciting line of: .271 AVG, 8 HR, 47 RBI, 55 R, 3 SB, 68 K, and 30 BB.
So in homage to Cano's agent, hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, I leave Cano and his owners with this:
If you're having baseball problems, I feel bad for you son, you got 99 problems, and a pitch is one
Now let's see what else happened on Saturday's slate…
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U Can't Touch This, Hammel Time! (and other notes from 5/19/15)
Well, when you got three different Jason Hammel's coming at you like a Denny's Grand Slam hologram card like in the picture above, I imagine it would be hard to touch him! Do you remember those hologram collector's cards from Denny's? When I was a kid, Friday nights were always "out to eat dinner" nights with my parents and brother. The places that we would frequent the most included Coco's, Bob's Big Boy, Flakey Jake's, and of course Denny's. Denny's had the promotion if you ordered one of their signature "Grand Slam Meals" then you would receive a collector's Grand Slam hologram card by Upper Deck. So being the collectors that we were, we would venture out to Denny's restaurants to try and collect all the different players cards that they had to offer. We wouldn't just go to the local Denny's, because each restaurant location had different cards. So we would go to Denny's a couple towns over in each direction to try and get them all. But I just remember ending up with one too many Danny Tartabull cards.
But anyway, onward to talk about MC Hammel. Hammel pitched on Tuesday at Petco Park versus the Padres and had an excellent game giving up one unearned run on 3 hits and 0 walks while striking out 8 Padres in 7 IP in a no-decision. The brilliant effort leaves him with a 3-1 record, 2.70 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, and 49 K/6 BB in 53.1 IP. Now we have seen Hammel go on some pretty good runs over the last few years, but what stands out about this 8 start stretch to begin the season is the low amount of walks. His 6 walks in 53.1 IP translates to a walk rate of 1.01 BB/9, which would easily be a career best and he would be quite the force if he can maintain it.
Over the course of his career, Hammel has had a slightly better than average walk rate with 2.99 BB/9 heading into the 2015 season. However, he did showoff one of his best seasons in the category last year with a 2.25 BB/9, so maybe he was on to something. But is Hammel going all 2014 Phil Hughes on us this year when Hughes had a miniscule 0.69 BB/9 and an all-time best strikeout to walk ratio of 11.63?
Hammel's great first pitch strike rate of 63.0% backs up the low walk rate, but his PITCHf/x rate of pitching within the strike zone 50.9% of the time, although higher than the recent years and 28th best in the Majors this year, is not indicative of a walk rate as low as he has. For comparison, out of the top 7 pitchers in BB/9 in 2014 (all 1.41 BB/9 or lower), 6 of the 7 pitchers were in the top 10 in zone% ranging from 52.6%-61.1%. Hammel could end up being that one who does sneak in to the top of the rankings in BB/9 despite not being one of the elite in zone%, but the odds are against him.
So what can we expect from Hammel the rest of the season? Even if his walk rate does not remain as low as it currently is, which I don't believe it will, he definitely seems to have turned a corner with his command and control dating back to last season. So he can surely end up maintaining a walk rate under 2.00 BB/9. His slider is his out pitch and it is good enough to allow him to keep a strikeout rate at or above 8.00 K/9. Some areas that he may see some regression in are in his HR allowed and BABIP. Currently, he is allowing HR at a rate of 0.84 HR/9, which is well below his marks the last couple of seasons. And his BABIP of .262 is likely not sustainable, and although it may not get as high as his career mark of .304, it is surely to increase at least somewhat. One more thing with Hammel is that he has never gone very deep into games and he has had some injuries that he has dealt with over the last few seasons, so he is not exactly the perfect model of health.
But with all this being said, Hammel still should be a fairly productive pitcher for the rest of the season. For the remainder of the season I'll give him: 9 W-6 L, 3.48 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, and 122 K/31 BB in 137 IP.
Now let's see what else happened on Tuesday…
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A Lesson in Klubotics (and other notes from 5/13/15)
The reigning AL Cy Young, Corey "the Klubot" Kluber had been on the wrong end of some hit parades over the course of his first 7 starts of the 2015 season, which led him to an 0-5 record with a 5.04 ERA and 1.39 WHIP. Given that his breakout 2014 performance kind of came out of nowhere (though there were signs that he had breakout potential), fantasy owners of Kluber were chomping at the bit to get rid of him. Yes, it is unfortunate for anyone who owns/owned Kluber that they had to endure such an ugly stretch, but a closer examination of what was really going on showed that there really was never any real reason to worry.
Heading into Wednesday's action, Kluber had a .364 BABIP and 62.3% strand rate, both of which were way worse than the league average and they were numbers to expect to regress towards the mean. Though his ERA was bloated at 5.04, his xFIP was 3.16 and his SIERA was 3.21. xFIP and SIERA are far more accurate measures of what a pitcher's "true" performance is, and for Kluber's marks to have been nearly two whole runs beneath his ERA, it was an obvious sign of things to come. Then add in the fact that his normal catcher, Yan Gomes who is known to be a great game caller with excellent framing metrics, got injured within the first week of the season, and his impending return in a couple weeks was more reason to believe in Kluber.
With that being said, the Klubot emerged on Wednesday to hurl one of the most dazzling games of this millennium. Outside of a bean ball on Matt Holliday early in the game and a 7th inning single given up to Jhonny "don't spell it Johnny" Peralta, Kluber was perfect. At the end of 8 innings, Kluber had tallied 18 strikeouts on 113 pitches. I really think that Kluber should have came out for the 9th inning to be given the opportunity to get to 20 strikeouts, or even 21 to set a new record, especially with the ugly way that Indians closer Cody Allen has been pitching. However, possibly playing a part in the decision of Kluber coming out of the game was the fact that manager Terry Francona was ejected earlier in the game and the acting manager for the Indians wanted to be cautious and not get in trouble with anyone for leaving Kluber out there too long. Whatever the case, the Klubot mystified Cardinals hitters all game long and effectively reversed any doubts that any fantasy owners may have had.
Kluber improved to 1-5 with a 4.27 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, and 64 K/11 BB in 52.2 IP. From here on out, those numbers should keep on improving. The window to buy low on Kluber has officially closed, and this has been your lesson in Klubotics.
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Wanda Nara- the name that's been circling through the whole PSG squad and mostly all clubs in Italy and France. The reason- She's popularly known as the ex-wife of Argentinean star football Player Mauro Icardi. Not only she is his partner, but she can also be known s Icardi's gent when it comes to club football and transfers. It would be wrong if you do not feel that she is not one of the most interesting football wives who dated quite notably some of the best players. However, she's been in the middle of controversies ever since her relationship with Maxi Lopez. Read below to know more Intriguing facts about Wanda Nara.
A History about Wanda Nara
Born on 1986, Wanda Nara is an Argentine model and a media personality. Her multiple attributes tally to make her the showgirl, a presenter and also a Footballing agent. Although there is not much information available on her childhood, but it is evident that both she and her sister are associated with the Argentine glamour industry. Both of them have shared a commendable time at the media industry with notable people all over. Her sister Zaira is also known to be a famous host who is popularly seen on TV media and show sets all over.
Her Relationship with Icardi
The tingling and crossing of paths started when the Argentine player was transferred to the football Club Inter Milan. However, at that time, Wanda was associated with Maxi Lopez as her partner. The couple had three children together and Wanda was taking great care of them. However, both Mauro and Wand were seen together multiple times out in the public. This is when her relationship rumour got into the limelight for the first time. However, when this news came out, Wanda did not back off and instead, she acknowledged this relationship publicly. This was the start of all uproar amongst fans of football from all over the world.
Relationship with Maxi Lopez
This was the time when Maxi got furious over his teammate getting involved with his wife. To answer publicly to this relationship, Maxi immediately responded by filing a divorce suit. The results were completely in favor of Maxi as he won the case by a big margin. However, this ended the relationship with Maxi and Nara. This was probably the start of all her controversies and from then, one piled up on another.
Wanda Nara getting Married to Mauro Icardi
Things started to take out on a proper turn when Wanda Nara and Mauro Icardi got hitched together. Her relationship with Icardi took a romantic turn when the couple decided to tie the knot together. This was around 2014 and the pair has been together ever since. A sequence of events did follow up after the couple tied the knots. The face-off between Maxi and Icardi came up where they both refused to shake hands. However, the couple now has 2 more children together and Wanda is now a mother of 5! Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved way to Paris following a transfer of Mauro Icardi.
Scandalous Events of Wanda Nara
1. The Tape Scandal
Wanda Nara is always known to be a person who loves to post pictures on Instagram and other social media platforms. Wanda is now close to being followed by 11 million accounts. A lot of her posts are with picturesque backgrounds and luxurious cars and fashionable clothes. However, there are often posts with her topless images and other intimate pictures with her partner Mauro. However, these posts are not restricted to only her account. They are both involved in sharing pictures and even leaking tapes on all over the internet.
2. The Intruder on Holiday
The love triangle first formed with a spark from Wanda as she wanted to spend a holiday. While planning for a trip along with Maxi Lopez, she planned to invite Mauro on their family trip. This tour was destined to be on Aeolian Islands where the Mauro and Nara came close to each other for the first time. However, in her terms, Icardi got closer to her only after his marriage was ended. This is when she started blaming Maxi Lopez for false rumours.
3. The Wanda Derby
We know about football matches hosted all over the world and they are widely known because of the rivalry between two clubs. A derby is often considered to be more exciting because it shares the same city or neighbourhood. What if two players share the same known person? Interesting right? This is what happened at the Wanda Derby. This is an infamous derby between two players involving Mauro Icardi and Maxi Lopez. The best part is the derby is named after Wanda Nara. Both the players never shook hands with each other.
4. The Quick fire Wedding
Overcoming a past marriage may take time. But when you are already in love, it might not take much time at all! This was the situation with Mauro and Nara. Just after 5 months from her separation with Maxi Lopez, she got married to Mauro. However, this was probably the most intimate wedding affair conducted. The total number of guests included in the wedding is restricted to 12 and none of them were his fellow mates. Just within eight months of the marriage, they got pregnant and were ready to welcome their first child.
Final Talk:
Wanda Nara is one of the biggest names when it comes to both modelling and also being a football agent. Although her professional career is not much on the line now, she has been in the middle of everything from a cheating partner to multiple social media statements and failed transfers for his partner! Nara is now residing in the city of Paris, but there are obviously multiple other talks about her. Her recent actions suggest that she is about to keep a safe distance from Sport, but she is also attracting public attention both for good and worse reasons.
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Van Wyk wins Ladies Award
Thursday May 04 2006
Moroka Swallows' glittering annual Awards ceremony, which took place at the Birchwood Hotel on Wednesday evening, not only belonged to the senior Men's side - but also to the Swallows Ladies, who have performed wonders this season in their regional SAFA Provincial Women's League.
The Player of the Year Award went to Janine van Wyk, whose consistency and brilliant form saw her being selected for the South African women's senior national squad, 'Banyana Banyana'.
Van Wyk topped a wonderful season by also picking up the Players' Player of the Year Award, her second on the evening. She took home a total of R15,000 for her efforts this season.
Her fellow Banyana Banyana team-mate, Belinda Nkosi, received the Top Goal-Scorer of the Year Award, along with R5,000 in prize money.
The Most Improved Award was awarded to Phumzile Mokgomane and Mamiki Twala, both of whom will share the R5,000 prize.
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- Van Wyk wins Ladies Award
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- Another great week for 'Lady Birds'
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Fremont County residents woke up to a spring snowfall Tuesday morning, but much of it was gone by early afternoon.
Between late Monday night and Tuesday morning, snowfall totaled between one and two inches in most parts of the area, according to Accuweather.
Tuesday's high temperature reached 46 degrees.
Residents in the Colo. 9 area reportedly received more than six inches of heavy, wet snow.
Fremont County Sheriff Jim Beicker said during a Fremont County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday that if not for the moisture, he would have imposed fire restrictions in the county. While the moisture will help, he said, much more will be needed to remove the possibility of fire danger from the county.
"Thankfully, we were blessed with the moist air we're getting right now," he said. "Unless this moisture is sustained throughout the spring season, this will probably only buy us a little more time."
Beicker also said that if residents need to do agricultural burning, they should "please get that done as quickly as they can."
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The mountains were expected to get 2 to 6 inches of snow by Tuesday morning, some areas reaching as much as 8 inches of snow.
The Denver Post reported patches of dense fog, rain, strong winds, thunder and snow hit parts of Colorado on Monday, making for a tumultuous weather day for residents and travelers.
About 9:45 p.m. Monday, the National Weather Service in Boulder reported seven to nine inches of new snow in some areas.
Easter day in the Cañon City is expected to be partly sunny, with a high of 60 degrees, and then temperatures will be in the low 70s Monday and Tuesday.
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One icy winter morning at about eleven o'clock I hurried across the stony windswept square, passing the ragged Christmas tree and solid brick church which sported a banner declaring "Hug somebody you like!" when I noticed a stocky, older man approaching. Outside the smelly ornamental public toilets he stopped and looked around, obviously confused. He was wearing a dark blue padded winter jacket, loose blue jeans, gym shoes and a bob hat which had lost the bob. I slowed down and, taking this as invitation, he came up to me, rather uncomfortably close I thought, and whispered "SFI?" in a gravelly voice. Another lost soul, I thought, and considered pointing him in the direction of the church, but repented and repeated "SFI?" He nodded and smiled. He was closer to sixty than fifty, with a dark weather-beaten face, which possibly indicated African roots, and poor front teeth. He was blinking urgently, obviously running late.
With my whole arm I pointed towards the glass doors of the shopping centre across the square, telling him to go right through the building and out the other side, take off to the right and past the hotel which he would see there. He smiled and nodded, but then asked again "SFI?" and pointed to his feet. He obviously hadn't understood. I asked "English?", whereupon he smiled again and shook his head. I waved my arm again in the general direction of the shopping centre. He shook his head slowly for a minute or two and then, like a man revealing a secret, dragged out an envelope from an inner pocket and handed it over. It was an official looking paper, an invitation to take part in a training course for SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) at 11 o'clock at an address on the other side of the shopping centre. I knew it well, went past there often on my way to the gym.
I nodded and pointed to the paper, then used my arms again like a semaphore to indicate which way he should go. To be on the safe side I repeated this procedure a couple of times. He smiled, put the paper back in the envelope, stuffed it into his pocket and set off at a good nick towards the shopping centre. At last, I thought, he got it, pleased with my success at non-verbal communication. Then, as he approached the entrance, he veered suddenly to the left and scurried along a passageway towards the bus station. I couldn't catch him before he disappeared around a corner, and it was too far to shout. Obviously he had not understood anything I had said. Which of course was why he needed to go to Swedish for Immigrants. There was no map or instructions how to get there.
What happened to the man? Did he get to his Swedish lessons? Did he feel as lost here in Sweden as I did living in Beijing in the early 1980's? And what could I have done to get him there safely?
These questions squelched around in my head all day. If I had smiled and, holding hands in the African manner, accompanied him to the training centre, a walk of almost a kilometre, would he have trusted me, a white man?


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Oct. 10, 2014 Updated: Aug. 12, 2017 3:12 p.m.
Mark Greenberg answers questions Friday during a pasta dinner fundraiser in Cheshire.Matt DeRienzo — CTNewsJunkie
CHESHIRE >> Republican congressional candidate Mark Greenberg said Friday that the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 led him to his change his position on gun control.
Greenberg's comments came only hours after the National Rifle Association announced that it had downgraded its rating of Greenberg's candidacy from "A" to "F."
The downgrade came after Greenberg, a Litchfield businessman who is challenging first-term incumbent Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty in Connecticut's 5th District, surprised many Thursday night at the candidates' first debate by saying he "completely" agreed with Esty's support of universal background checks for gun purchases and a proposed ban on "straw" gun purchases.
After Esty questioned how the NRA could give him an "A" rating if he believed that, Greenberg joked that the NRA might switch that rating to an "F" after hearing what he had said.
And the NRA wasted no time in doing just that on Friday, blasting Greenberg for apparently making a "false" statement on a 2012 questionnaire in which he said he was opposed to subjecting private gun transactions to background checks.


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How can social-emotional learning shape the futures we want? A Conversation with Dominic Regester | Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.
Posted By: Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.
In this episode of the Coconut Thinking podcast (used to be called Meaningful Learning), I speak with Dominic Regester. Dominic is the program director at Salzburg Global Seminar. He is responsible for designing, developing and implementing programs on education, sustainability and innovation. He is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Commission on Education and Communication and a member of the Executive Committee for Karanga — The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills. Dominic advocates for centralizing social-emotional learning as a way to meet the challenges of the future, for the common good as well as our personal and professional fulfillment. We discuss:
How we can change education by changing ecosystems of learning;
How social-emotional skills can help us shape the life we want to lead;
How social-emotional learning is necessary to solve the metacrisis we face.
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Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. is the co-founder of Coconut Thinking, which creates learning and action experiences where all learners have a common purpose; positive impact on the welfare of the bio-collective — any living thing, sentient or plant, that has an interest in the healthfulness of the planet. Benjamin also works as the Whole School Leader of Learning and Teaching at an International School in Thailand. He was the Academic Coordinator at Misk Schools, which, as the school of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is the most prestigious and high profile school in the kingdom. In 2018-2019, he was also the Head of Upper Primary and Middle School at Misk. Prior to this, he was Vice Principal of the Middle School and High School at the Harbour School in Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. in History, an MSc in Education, an MBA, an MA in International Relations, and a BA in International Affairs. Benjamin was born and grew up in Paris, France. He moved to the U.S. when he was 15 and spent 11 years there in different cities, before living in the U.K., Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and now Thailand. He started his career in consulting for Internet start-ups in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s, working with people whose ambitions were no less than to change the world. This experience had a profound effect on Benjamin's outlook on education, innovation, and entrepreneurialism.
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Q: C programing How do i get a specific line of strings from a text file? I've been tasked to create a program that will input a number, and the program will then open a file and retrieve the string on that given sentence. Here is the text file i am working with.
billy
bob
james
peter
mike
kieran
obidiah
scarlett
john
chloe
sarah
bob
leon
david
andrew
james
shawn
hannah
peter
phoebe
chris
john
mark
meg

Now, i decided it was easier to get a name, get a count value and reverse engineer it from there, however i am completely stuck on how to do it, can anyone help?
   int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    int count = 1;

    char wd[20], word[20];

    FILE *fp;

    fp = fopen("Names.txt", "r");
    if (fp == NULL) {
        printf("given file doesn't exist");
        getch();
    } else {
        printf("Name: ");
        scanf("%s", word);
        fscanf(fp, "%s", wd);
        while (!feof(fp)) {
            if (strcmp(word, wd) == 0) {
                printf("%s found in the file. the given word is the %d word in the file", word, count);
                count = 0;
                break;
            } else {
                fscanf(fp, "%s", wd);
                count++;
            }
        }
        if (count != 0) {
            printf("given word is not found in the file");
        }
        getch();
    }
}

This is the name to line code, I would like the count to name code.

A: fgets() reads a line from a file, so if you need the nth line (and you're confident you know the maximum length of a line in your file) just call fgets() n times. The way you decided was easier is not easier, and doesn't seem to address the requested task.
Reading the line number from the command line so as to not quite meet the specifications of your homework, this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>

#define MAX_BUFFER_SIZE 1024

/*  Parse the command line arguments  */

int parse_cmd_line(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    /*  Check we have a single argument  */

    if ( argc != 2 ) {
        printf("You must enter a single integral argument.\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    /*  Check that argument is an integer greater than zero  */

    char * endptr;
    int fline = strtol(argv[1], &endptr, 10);
    if ( *endptr || fline < 1 ) {
        printf("You must enter a positive non-zero integral argument.\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    return fline;
}

/*  Trim trailing whitespace from a string  */

char * trim_trailing(char * buffer) {
    int idx = strlen(buffer) - 1;
    while ( idx >= 0 && isspace(buffer[idx]) ) {
        buffer[idx--] = 0;
    }
    return buffer;
}

/*  Main function  */

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    int fline = parse_cmd_line(argc, argv);

    FILE * infile = fopen("data.txt", "r");
    if ( !infile ) {
        perror("Couldn't open data.txt");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    int count = fline;
    char buffer[MAX_BUFFER_SIZE];

    while ( count-- > 0 ) {
        if ( fgets(buffer, MAX_BUFFER_SIZE, infile) == NULL ) {
            printf("There aren't that many lines in the file.\n");
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
    }

    fclose(infile);

    printf("Line %d contains '%s'\n", fline, trim_trailing(buffer));

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

will output, with your data file:
paul@MacBook:~/Documents/src/scratch$ ./fileline 1
Line 1 contains 'billy'
paul@MacBook:~/Documents/src/scratch$ ./fileline 7
Line 7 contains 'obidiah'
paul@MacBook:~/Documents/src/scratch$ ./fileline 24
Line 24 contains 'meg'
paul@MacBook:~/Documents/src/scratch$ ./fileline 25
There aren't that many lines in the file.
paul@MacBook:~/Documents/src/scratch$

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Thread: 2011 Dodge Challenger
Back in 1970, the Dodge Challenger was rougher around the edges than the Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang. It came to the game a few years late; it was heavier and didn't handle quite as well. But it made up for its deficits with its outsized personality, heroic engines and brutal straight-line performance.
It's much the same deal today. Camaro and Mustang are great cars; arguably better all-arounders.
Bit when it comes to balls, nothing can touch the Challenger - then or now.
The Challenger is a rear-drive, two-plus-two American muscle car, built to burn rubber and raise hell. It comes in V-6 SE form ($25,305), V-8 powered R/T ($32,770) and amped-up SRT8 versions ($43,100).
Challenger is a significantly bigger car than its two main competitors, the Camaro and Mustang - with usable (for adult humans) rear seats.
All current versions are hardtop coupes but a convertible is on deck (reportedly) for summer 2011.
Major upgrades to the base SE model center on a new 3.6 liter V-6, with 305 hp.
The top-of-the-line SRT8 gets a new, larger version of the famous Hemi V-8, with power bootsed to 475 hp.
All models receive a revised interior with new-design steering wheel and slight exterior tweaks, including a new lower grill and chin spoiler (R/T models).
Retro 70s-era high-impact color choices return - including Plum Crazy and Detonator Yellow.
New 3.6 liter V-6 is a godsend that makes base SE coupe a player.
Reincarnates the audaciousness of the original early '70s Challenger - along with even fiercer performance than the old 440 Magnum and even the legendary 426 cubic-inch Street Hemi big blocks of that era delivered.
It's huge. The Challenger's near 17 cubic-foot trunk is bigger than many current mid-sized family sedans' trunks.
Back seats are actually viable for transporting adult humans - unlike smaller Camaro and Mustang's for-looks-only back seats.
WHAT'S NOT SO GOOD
$1,600 price bump for base V-6 SE compared with last year.
Rumbly new V-6 not available with manual transmission.
It's huge - and heavy, too.
Some iffy build quality issues.
Chrysler itself is iffy - and may not be in bidness a few years from now, if people don't buy lots of Fiats.
Three engines are available in the '11 Challenger, one V-6 and two versions of Chrysler's Hemi V-8.
The big news is the new 3.6 liter V-6, which replaces the former 3.5 liter V-6. The new engine makes 305 horsepower - 55 more than than the old 3.5 liter engine. The '11 SE Challenger's V-6 is finally competitive with the 300 hp V-6s used in the base versions of Camaro and Mustang.
Zero to 60 runs now take about 7.1 seconds - not as quick as Mustang or Camaro, but much quicker than the previous base model Challenger with the 3.5 liter engine (about 8 seconds flat) and certainly respectable enough to be in line with the car's image.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that the Challenger's new V-6 comes teamed only with a five-speed automatic. At least, initially. Chevy and Ford both let you have a manual transmission - a six speed manual - with their V-6s.
And their optional automatics are six-speeds, too.
Why is Dodge always playing catch-up?
Moving along...
Challenger R/T is powered by a 5.7 liter V-8, Chrysler's famous Hemi - tuned up a bit to 379 hp (if you order the five-speed Tremec manual transmission; automatic-equipped Hemi Challengers are rated at 372 hp).
Though it's very powerful (0-60 in the mid-high 5 second range with a top speed over 150 mph) the 5.7 liter Hemi R/T is nonetheless outgunned by the 2011 Ford Mustang GT's 5.0 liter, 412 hp V-8 and the Camaro SS's 426 hp 6.2 liter V-8.
Both the Chevy and Ford are several hundred pounds lighter, too.
Then there's the top-of-the-line SRT8 - and some extremely happy news for Moparians.
For 2011, the SRT8 gets a hogged-out 6.4 liter version of the Hemi that produces 475 hp - making this model the strongest of the three latter day muscle cars.
And not by a hair, either.
Even with more weight to carry, acceleration is seriously antisocial: Expect zero to 60 in the mid 4 second range - and very frequent tire changes.
The Hemi V-8 is available with Chrysler's cylinder deactivation technology - which helps fuel economy a little bit. But even with the assistance of modern technology, the V-8 Challenger drinks gas just like a classic 1970 Challenger: The R/T rates 16 MPGs in the city. Highway mileage, though, is better at a possible 25 mpg.
The SRT8 is even thirstier, of course. EPA ratings weren't available at the time of this review, but expect city mileage to be high single digits, maybe 11-12 or so, in normal, real-world use.
Both versions of the Hemi V-8 require premium fuel but the V-6 can drink regular unleaded.
The base car with the V-6 is now a decent choice.
Previously it was a toothless tiger that looked tough but couldn't even do a burnout unless you power braked it. A Camry V-6 could smoke it.
Now it will run with the Camaro and Mustang V-6s.
It's just too bad it's still playing catch-up by not having a manual transmission.
The R/T and SRT8 definitely deliver the goods, though.
As the owner of a '70s-era muscle car (a Pontiac Trans-Am with a 7.4 liter 455 V-8) I felt right at home. Same big bruiser/Nextel Cup stock car feel. The engine throbs, the gearshift vibrates. Acres of steel. You feel as invincible as the commander of a King Tiger tank stomping through a Russian village in the summer of 1943.
Mustang and Camaro are fun, but they can't match the Challenger's ironheaded brutality. It is a four-wheeled .44 Magnum, the Most Powerful Handgun in the Whole World.
And it will take your head clean off.
Push the traction control "off" button and tickle the gas; the rear tires vaporize in a haze of blue smoke at anything more than half-down. Push down all the way and the rear end will slide sideways; don't be afraid! Keep your foot in it! Crank the wheel hard in the opposite direction! Shift! Everybody else, get the hell out of the way.
And that's just the R/T.
If you grew up with big American muscle coupes and remember them like your first girlfriend, you will fall in love with the Challenger.
At 197.7 inches long, the Dodge is close to a foot longer overall than the Mustang (188.1) and 7.1 inches longer than Camaro (190.4 inches). Curb weight (R/T) is 4,041 lbs. vs. 3,603 for the Mustang and 3,860 for the Camaro.
The Challenger is a sled.
If you were born after 1980 and grew up with compact-sized FWD imports, the linebacker massiveness of the Challenger will probably take a little getting used to. But you'll soon see what all the guys who were lucky enough to have been around when cars like the Challenger were the rule instead of the exception got to play with when they were young.
The only downside to all this is handling. Barreling down the highway with the Hemi singing is muscle car Nirvana. You are king of the road. But the car's proportions and its weight do clip its ability to corner like a sports coupe - which to be fair, it really isn't.
The Challenger is basically a redneck GT; an Aston Martin Vantage for the Bruce Springsteen set.
No one does it better.
Ford has done a really nice job incorporating retro styling elements to the new Mustang - and the new Camaro does a fine job of hinting at the '69 - but the 2011 Challenger actually looks like it teleported here in one piece from the early Nixon Years.
There aren't just hints and echoes of the original 1970 Challenger. The new Challenger could easily be mistaken for a meticulously restored '70 Challenger from 20 yards away - especially if you order yours in one of the available day-glo colors with the optional stripe and decal packages - and add a set of black louvers to the rear glass.
It has the same arrogant squat and hungry-looking front end with deep-set hooded headlights and prominent chin spoiler, up-arched rear quarters and twin-scooped hood as the original car did.
Dodge really ought to offer side-exit megaphone exhausts... .
Somehow, Chrysler designers managed this insolent re-creation while also complying with all the federal government's bumper-impact and crashworthiness rigmarole - which may be a boon for safety but which make it very difficult to bring non-standard shapes to production.
Inside, meanwhile, Dodge has at least tried to put some more distance between the Challenger and its parent car, the Charger sedan. There is still a lot of commonality, unfortunately. Both cars share the same basic dashpad/gauge layout/look. It isn't bad, just bland - given the rest of the car. It doesn't mesh with the wild child exterior - or match the retro coolness of the interiors of its competition. There is a new three-spoke steering wheel, which is a noticeable and significant improvement. Still, the Challenger's interior - at least in so far as looks go - is not up to the turn-back-time standard set by Camaro and Mustang.
But, there is an upside - space.
Lots of space.
As mentioned earlier, the Challenger is a lunker of a car. It has much bigger trunk - 16.2 cubic feet - than either the Camaro (11.3 cubic feet) or the Mustang (13.4 cubic feet) as well as actually usable rear seats, which you won't find in either the Ford or the Chevy.
Dodge advertises the Challenger as five-person capable and while that may be stretch, four adults can definitely ride in one. That's impossible in either Camaro and Mustang, where the back seats are at best usable for young children and overflow cargo you couldn't squeeze into the trunk.
The Dodge has 32.6 inches of backseat legroom vs. 29.8 for the Mustang and 29.9 for Camaro. There's also two-plus inches more headroom in the Challenger's backseat area.
This roominess - pus the car's visual impact and retro-historical appeal - are probably its biggest assets, even more so than its 0-60 and 1/4 mile times. The useable back seats make it a plausibly practical car for people with kids. And the spacious front seats (again, significantly more headroom vs. the competition) make it more comfortable for bigger (and less flexible) people like the typical over-40s who are probably the most likely people to lust after one of these trips down Memory Lane - and able to afford one, too.
The fastback rear glass somewhat limits rearward vision - and there is a little bit of a blind spot at the B pillar near the rear quarter glass. But bottom line, the Challenger looks great from any angle and as with the car's outsized proportions, you quickly get used to the minor visibility issues.
Seat patterns, the canted toward the driver center console and the trapezoidal shape of the dashpad also echo the early '70s - though modernity shows through in the form of the optional LCD display for the GPS/audio system (with MyGIG music hard drive) as well as the air bag-equipped steering wheel and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.
A Super Track Pack option group is available for R/Ts. It includes more aggressive final gearing and other performance-minded upgrades. SRT8s come with higher-effort steering, Brembo brakes, ultra-firm suspension and 20 inch wheels with ultra-performance tires, among other numerous enhancements.
There is another area where the Challenger reminded me of the 1970s.
When I opened the trunk of my test car, I saw some fairly crude-looking assembly work - specifically, where the rear quarter panels meet up with the trunk shell. Dimpled spot welds and slathered on body sealer at the join points. None of it was clear-coated, either. Several car companies don't clear coat the door jambs, under the hood and trunk - in order to save a few bucks per car.
It doesn't hurt anything, but it does look cheap.
The Frankenstinian welding/joining, though, really surprised me. I haven't seen anything like it on a production car in close to 20 years now of test-driving new cars. Like the absence of clear-coating on not-visible panels, it's probably not a functional issue - but it implies serious penny pinching and possibly, slapdash assembly. You would never in a million years see this kind of thing on a current (or even recent) Japanese or European car.
Or for that matter, even a current GM or Ford car.
Prospective buyers who see this may react badly.
The rest of the car seemed ok - and Dodge's powertrains ( especially the V-8s) have a good rep for quality and basic soundness of design. The heavy-duty muscle car underpinnings should prove tough and durable, too.
The car's sheer size and mass confer a safety advantage, even without the air bags and ABS and all the rest of it. Like its forbears, this 4,000 pound-plus hunka burnin' love would accordionize a Honda Civic with only a few scuffs on the bumper to show for the encounter.
The one major worry, of course, is the future of the company that makes this car. Fiat is bankrolling Chrysler now, but it faces the forbidding challenge of building up a presence in this market from literally nothing at a time when the economy is worse than it has been in 30 years or more.
If Fiat pulls out, Chrysler's a goner.
And Challenger owners may lose dealer support/service/ready access to parts.
The Mustang and Camaro are better all-arounders but no one's got bigger balls than the Challenger.
Brandonjin
I think that pentastar is going to help Chrysler alot in the comming years. They are putting it in almost every car. Hopefully its reliable.
I've also liked this car's styling more than the other two.
Originally Posted by Brandonjin
Before the recent update to the Mustang, I much preferred the Challenger over both the Mustang and the Camaro.
Now it's much closer (for me) between the Mustang and the Challenger.
The Ford is a better overall package, I'd argue. The interior is a particular strong point. But the Dodge V-8 is gruntier; more low-end torque. Plus the car just has the most 'Tude.
Mustangs are great cars but they are literally everywhere. No one pays attention. The Camaro gets looks.
But the Dodge gets drools.
If I had $40k just laying around....
I agree. The mustang is the better car. Thats why theres so many around. Great powertrains, good fuel economy,and its a fairly cheap car...
USAFANG67
Needs to go on "America's Biggest Losers" because it's grossly over-weight compared to the Mustang. Instead of Dodge throwing more muscle at it(like GM did with the so called "NEW GTO" they need to put this "X-Box Fat Boy" on a serious diet.
Originally Posted by USAFANG67
Camaro's a weighty waddler, too!
But at least the Dodge has a usable back seat....
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Q: Can anyone help understand why its failing the test? FCC new es6 lesson "Strings using Template Literals" I've tried multiple different configurations of the template literal. The output is correct, but it's failing the test of "includes template literal".  I feel like the test isn't right, but it's always me lol.
Here's the link to the exercise:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/es6/create-strings-using-template-literals

    const result = {
    success: ["max-length", "no-amd", "prefer-arrow-functions"],
    failure: ["no-var", "var-on-top", "linebreak"],
    skipped: ["id-blacklist", "no-dup-keys"]
    };
    function makeList(arr) {
    "use strict";

    // change code below this line
    const resultDisplayArray = [];
    for(let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++){
    resultDisplayArray.push(`<li class=\"text-warning\">${arr[i]}</li>`);
    }
    // change code above this line

    return resultDisplayArray;
    }
    /**
    * makeList(result.failure) should return:
    * [
no-var
,
    *
var-on-top
,
    *
linebreak
 ]
    **/
    const resultDisplayArray = makeList(result.failure);
    console.log(resultDisplayArray);

I wish my fist post wasn't a question, but I'm just stuck. And with the new FCC format and the exercises being new, I'm having a hard time figuring out where I'm wrong.

A: Yes, their test is broken, probably using a trivial regexp that expects a single identifier not an expression in the interpolation. Changing your loop body to
const x = arr[i];
resultDisplayArray.push(`<li class="text-warning">${x}</li>`);

makes it work. Notice however that the backslash escapes for " need to be removed as well (to make the test pass - they are valid but unnecessary in template literals).

A: Simple and easy:
const makeList = arr => arr.map(i => `<li class="text-warning">${i}</li>`);


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This typical soiling phnomenon causes significant yield losses.
Most of today's solar panels are embedded in aluminum frames. This frame triggers a significant problem when panels are installed at low slope angles (e.g. less than 20 degrees). The lower frame rail of the panel builds a horizontal raised rib at the lower edge of the module. This rib causes a back-water effect. The filthy water is not correctly run off resulting in the accumulation of dirt on the glass alongside the lower frame rail. This layer of dirt casts a shadow on the underlying cells, which often results in significant loss in yield.
Rotating the panel effectively ensures proper runoff of rainwater.
Our X10 solar system overcomes this problem in a simple, yet extremely effective way: By rotating the panel by a couple of degrees (e.g. 10 degrees) on its own plane, the horizontal corrugation disappears. The lower frame rails now both show slopes ensuring proper runoff of rainwater. The panel will remain clean, even at low slope angles.