FanGraphs Chat – 10/24/12
Dave is a co-founder of USSMariner.com and contributes to the Wall Street Journal.
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Gun to your head, first non-pitcher off the board in the June Draft. Thanks.
What kind of contract do you think Ichiro will get? 2/$18?
Dave, just an FYI but college teams definitely play during the week. While the games are usually non-conference games early in the year, they usually play something on Tues/Wed and then Fri/Sat/Sun.
Jack Zduriencik supposedly burned bridges with the non-trade of Cliff Lee to the Yankees. Then they did the Pineda deal, same thing again. Then they did the Ichiro trade.
I remember there was some huff and puff around the non-trade of Jarrod Washburn to the Yankees too.
RE: changing positions and offense…
Very quick and dirty, but I took all players who in consecutive seasons [1969 onward] had at least 400 PA [300 PA if catcher], played in the same park and played a very high percentage of their innings at a single position in each season where that position was different in each year.
I grouped the data by the positions, and am measuring relative performance using the basic runs created formula [OBP*TB]:
C->3B +34%
3B->2B +22%
LF->RF +13%
3B->LF +9%
CF->LF +4%
RF->CF +3%
SS->3B +2%
CF->RF +0%
RF->LF -1%
LF->CF -1%
LF->1B -9%
The numbers above are adjusted to reflect the 1-3% year-to-year decline on the players who did not change positions [but still met all of the other criteria.
I used a minimum sample of five players per positional pair- here are some of the smaller sample size changes:
SS->2B [4] +14%
LF->3B [3] +10%
1B->C [3] +9%
2B->SS [3] +9%
3B->1B [4] +0%
3B->RF [3] -9%
2B->3B [4] -10%