interpet them for me. we can all pick out stats that support our argument. you obviously picked out stats to support yours.
sorry, but i just couldn't let this pass.... really? morgan's .236/19/44/.890 season is better than huff's .311/34/107/.922 season in '03? you'd take morgan's '06 over huff's '04: .297/29/104/.853?
except i picked statistics that are actually relevant to the discussion. your cherry picking of irrelevant stats are willfully ignorant at best, and intellectually dishonest at worst.
Yep, no question. Especially when you consider, that ops is a bunt statistic that undervalues obp at a run producer as compared to slg. Furthermore, in 2002 when huff put up those numbers he played half of his games as a dh. As i'm sure you know the value of offense varies dependant on what position the player plays. ensberg' s current season, playing 3rd base (well) , thus is more valuable than huff's 2002 not even taking into account the almost 40 point different in obp.
you're right, homeruns and rbi are irrelevant for a thirdbaseman who is supposed to be the power guy.
i honestly have no idea what you're talking about. do you? can you explain this more clearly? OPS is a bunt statistic? what does that mean? and how is OB% undervalued? just a confusing statement all around. ensberg has done exactly one thing better than huff did in 2003 - he's drawing more walks. actually, he was also on pace to hit more HRs, i guess, though he had obviously fallen way off that pace in june (he has 2 since june 1). anyway, ensberg was on pace to draw 136 walks; huff drew 53. but ensberg was also on pace to strike out 140 times; huff struck out only 80 times. i'd much rather have my middle of the order guys making contact and putting balls in play than walking or striking out. maybe you differ on that line of thinking... or maybe you should have actually dialed up espn.com before making a ridiculous statement and backing yourself into a corner. first of all, it was 2003, not 2002. you can't even get the year right and it's in my original post. not surprisingly, you're wrong about the DH, too. out of his 636 ABs that year, 136 came as a DH; that translates into roughly 34 games; he played in all 162 that year. so roughly 21% of his ABs were as a DH, and 21% is nowhere near 50%. sorry, you are wrong. again. again, it was 2003. and fine, you're right - ensberg's inordinate amount of walks cancels out huff's superiority in every other category and makes his 2006 the better year......
That, and the whole, "but he walks and OBP is 50% more valuable than SLG" nonsense really skews people's judgement. It's completely inane to argue that a guy who is expected to drive runners in is having a "valuable" season when he's barely driven in a baker's dozen in the last 2 freaking MONTHS. I was good at drawing walks in little league, but since I couldn't hit the damn ball I rode the bench, and rightly so.