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Kent, Freel, Counsell, and Grudzhoweveryouspellit.
Can't believe I forgot Oswalt. He easily deserves to go but will probably get left off because he's only a 0.500 pitcher. :rolleyes:
3B is actually stacked this season in the NL. Chipper Jones, David Wright, and Aramis Ramirez are all having good season so for. Rob Mackowiack...
Justice is a hack with good connections (which probably can be said about 90% of the country's sportswriters). Jeff Kent is not the difference...
I agree. I'm not one of the people who suggest that you can throw away a scouting department and replace them with computers. The optimum...
Exactly.
It's comparing a player's stats to the league average. Through 2004, Dunn's OBP was 0.382. The park-adjusted OBP of the NL over that same...
That is a mistake made by a lot of people, but that is not even remotely what Moneyball is about.
I forgot to change the text in a couple of spots. Here's how it should read: BA+ = BA / park-adjusted BA OBP+ = OPB / park-adjusted OBP SLG+...
Good point Max. The gap is decreased somewhat when correcting for park and era, but not tremendously. BA+ (BA divided by era-adjusted,...
Max, I didn't say anything about OPS, I said OBP. Basically what you did is remove a bunch of walks from Dunn to make him comparable to...
You can't ignore a stat just because you don't agree with it Max. Taking 0.080 points off of Dunn's OBP, which is what you have to do to make him...
But he's done it every season at every level. I'm not sure what other conclusion you can draw from that.
But you left out the fact that he walks 100 times a year, which is something that has to be added to the equation to get an honest evaluation....
I agree that K's are slightly worse than other types of outs, but a lot of people are willing to write players like Dunn off completely because...
I would argue that you're looking at the wrong numbers. Who cares about batting average when he has an excellent OBP & SLG? And why are K's so...
I'm not sure how you can dismiss his walk total last season so quickly - he's put up huge on-base numbers no matter where he's played. Adam Dunn
Looks like Dunn signed a one-year, $4.6 million deal this season to avoid arbitration, which is almost exactly half of what Giles earns.
Dunn has a career OBP of 0.382 and has drawn 100+ walks two of the three seasons that he has been a regular, so any comparison to Dave Kingman...
I can see the tag line already: HE'S ALL OUT OF BUBBLE GUM!!!
