Comments on: 8 Years, 121 Million Dollars http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/ Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Finn http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37799 Finn Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:43:43 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37799 It's amazing to me that Mike Hampton is 35 years old at this point. If he was 10 years younger and was convinced that his body wasn't going to be able to hold up under the stresses of pitching, it'd have been fun to see him try to convert to being a position player. He won 5 straight silver slugger awards from 1999-2003. It’s amazing to me that Mike Hampton is 35 years old at this point.

If he was 10 years younger and was convinced that his body wasn’t going to be able to hold up under the stresses of pitching, it’d have been fun to see him try to convert to being a position player. He won 5 straight silver slugger awards from 1999-2003.

]]> By: Isaac http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37782 Isaac Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:37:13 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37782 Thanks. Thanks.

]]> By: Eric Seidman http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37780 Eric Seidman Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:28:55 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37780 Isaac, I make my e-mail readily available to anyone. Seidburns850@aol.com. E-mail me whenever. Seriously. To stay on topic, send me an e-mail and we can discuss through there. Isaac, I make my e-mail readily available to anyone. Seidburns850@aol.com. E-mail me whenever. Seriously. To stay on topic, send me an e-mail and we can discuss through there.

]]> By: Isaac http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37776 Isaac Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:32:17 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/8-years-121-million-dollars/#comment-37776 Eric, this question is completely unrelated to the blog, but as I don't know how to contact any of this site's authors outside of commenting on their blogs, I thought I might as well try to ask you about the following via your blog. I was doing some stat crunching for some players and whether or not their xBABIP matches their real BABIP,(My fantasy team could use some BA help) and when I checked up on Paul Konerko, i noticed that throughout his career he has managed to completely under perform in the BABIP department relative to his xBABIP. Now I understand that he is very slow and I originally thought that just like faster players can have unusually high BABIP's, the opposite can be true for slower players. But speed is a factor on groundballs, not line drives. It's not like Pauly is so slow he gets thrown out at first on line drives to the right fielder. Is there something outside of career long poor luck that could contribute to such a performance? Eric, this question is completely unrelated to the blog, but as I don’t know how to contact any of this site’s authors outside of commenting on their blogs, I thought I might as well try to ask you about the following via your blog. I was doing some stat crunching for some players and whether or not their xBABIP matches their real BABIP,(My fantasy team could use some BA help) and when I checked up on Paul Konerko, i noticed that throughout his career he has managed to completely under perform in the BABIP department relative to his xBABIP. Now I understand that he is very slow and I originally thought that just like faster players can have unusually high BABIP’s, the opposite can be true for slower players. But speed is a factor on groundballs, not line drives. It’s not like Pauly is so slow he gets thrown out at first on line drives to the right fielder. Is there something outside of career long poor luck that could contribute to such a performance?

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