Comments on: 2009 AL All-Star Ballot

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:03:12 +0000

Nomar R.I.P

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:59:16 +0000

“This time it counts”
Put Bartlett over Jeter

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:47:50 +0000

Good Choses

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:17:28 +0000

I just don’t get putting value in one stat. Sure Lee has allowed less Homeruns then those people which is why is FIP is lower. But his ERA and WHIP is higher. So it just means he gives up more runs other ways than they do.

By: John L.

John L. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:09:17 +0000

Also the Little League stadium theory barely even applies to Teixeira so far. He only has two cheap shots at home and one was an immensely wind-aided shot to left that had nothing to do with favorable dimensions. The other one though, yes, was fully 100% attributable to the short porch in right. If you want to adjust his home runs to a neutral park you can take away that one but that’s it.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:53:24 +0000

Are these the only two options? I managed to find a young, exciting player with good (not great) numbers to vote for: Elvis Andrus.

By: John L.

John L. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:48:24 +0000

I don’t know, Jeff. I’m looking at Cabrera’s hit chart right now and I fail to see these five warning track fly outs that you’re referring to.

By: John L.

John L. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:39:10 +0000

There actually is a legitimate argument to be made for Teixeira from the PrOPS standpoint where he’s currently smoking both Cabrera and Morneau. In a matter of actual vs. expected, I don’t think you can really argue with either thought process.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:23:04 +0000

Or, if you want to go into the debate that causes more stat-oriented guys to lose brain cells from bashing their heads against walls, Blyleven v. Morris.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:08:06 +0000

I still cant understand, how even if you are using past performance instead of year to date stats as your basis for voting, that Tex deserves it more than Cabrera…

I think Cabrera is the better player this year or in the past…

Sure Tex always has the huge RBI numbers over Cabrera, but isn’t evaluating a players performance based on RBI’s one of the things that sparked the whole “statistical revolution”.

Put Cabrera in Arrlington in the same lineup Tex was in and he equals or surpasses Tex’s numbers…

And now put him in that Little League park in NY and he equals Tex’s homer numbers…. I can recall 5 different balls this season that Cabrera hit that were caught on the warning track in right-center at Comerica that would have been 10 rows back at Yankee Stadium…