Justin Reschke

Justin Reschke

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About

I'm a 21 year old student at The Ohio State University. I grew up in Danville, CA about 40 minutes east of San Francisco so I'm a Bay Area sports fan. My main teams are the San Jose Sharks and Oakland A's. I also follow the Raiders and 49'ers and love to see the Giants lose, especially when Barry Zito is pitching. I've played hockey since I was 7 years old and hockey is my favorite sport, followed closely by baseball. I was also the director of baseball operations at UC Santa Barbara last year and learned a lot about the game. I'm majoring in business and looking to get into OSU's sports management masters program after I graduate. I'm just doing this for fun and to have a place to post my opinions. I'll mainly be focused on the Sharks and then the A's, but I still try to follow everything so we'll see. So yeah, read along, argue, make comments, whatever. I'll try to have a new blog up after every sharks playoff game and every couple days or so for the A's. Hopefully I can stick to that. Thanks for readin!

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Joe Sakic, Nick Swisher, Marcel Goc, Joe Thornton, Patrick Roy

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    San Jose Sharks, Oakland Athletics, LA Dodgers, Colorado Avalanche, The Ohio State Buckeyes.

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Being there when Scott Hatterberg hit a homer for Oakland to wrap up the A's 20 game, record setting winning streak.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Most of Wayne Gretzky's records. 93 goals in a season seems impossible, as does 50 goals in 39 games.

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Mays

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Montana

  • Pele or Maradona?

    Hockey

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    Big 10, Go Buckeyes!

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  • Richard Bowler posted 834 days ago

    Richard Bowler

    Check out my new article on the top 10 fantasy 1st basemen.
    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/348706-top-ten-fantasy-baseball-first-basemen

  • Molly Gray posted 1340 days ago

    Molly Gray

    Hope you're looking forward to game two of the NLDS! Here's my take on Chad Billingsley for the Dodgers:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/64482-dodgers-cubs-its-a-series-for-the-young-guns

  • Nathaniel Stoltz posted 1508 days ago

    Nathaniel Stoltz

    UVI at the moment does not incorporate defense. I see defense as a separate entity from pitching or hitting. It's tough to really combine hitting and fielding into one stat, and even if you did, that would mean hitting UVI was even more different from pitching UVI than it already is.

    The issue with doing defense stuff is this: There are so many defensive metrics out there (FRAA, +/-, and tons of others) and none seem to really agree on much. Even if we were to come up with something good for defense, it would just be something else in this jumble where no one knows what to believe.

    The other big issue, as I outlined for some other things in my UVI: A Reprise article, is simply the lack of data widely available as far as defense. However, if you have any ideas on how to make a new defensive metric, I'd be eager to assist you.

    There is plenty more work to be done on UVI however, and I highlight it both in the original article (talking about minor league translations, for one) and also in the Reprise article. If you could find some way to help me out with that stuff, I'd really appreciate it.