Comments on: Bay Vs Cameron

By: LibertyBoy

LibertyBoy — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:35:19 +0000

Still laughing!!!

By: LibertyBoy

LibertyBoy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:59:30 +0000

lol!

By: LibertyBoy

LibertyBoy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:45:59 +0000

HAHAHAHA this was a great article.

By: CircleChange11

CircleChange11 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:22:02 +0000

I remember Whitey Herzog defending Ozzie’s million dollar contract by saying something like “A guy that prevents 100 runs is as valuable as a guy that knocks in 100 runs.”

That understanding, IMO, is why the 82 Cardinals could win the WS with no one on their team having more than 19 HRs (George Hendrick). You can put George in RF when you McSpeedster covering CF.

Looking at the defensive ratings of Hernandez (1B), Herr (2B), Ozzie (SS), and Oberkfell (3B), it’s amazing.

Their SP’s — Andujar, Forsch, Stuper, and Mura weren’t THAT great.

The emphasis on D was one of the reasons why Hernandez, with only 7 HRs, was likely as valuable to his particular team as ANY 1B was to their own respective squad.

As I said in another thread, I always thought Figgins was a great fit for the Cardinals … a fast Terry Pendleton, so to speak.

By: james wilson

james wilson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:01:46 +0000

Fans will never understand what a great defense does for a pitching staff, other than creating highlight videos. It’s the difference between going into the eigth or into the sixth or seventh. Good defenders are burglars.
The better and deeper your pitching staff, the greater that difference becomes, and the rest of the game becomes more important–moving runners, scoring from third, on base percentace, yada yada. Everything a position player does becomes more important, and a team has greater focus.

By: jp

jp — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:59:58 +0000

speaking of which…

By: gnomez

gnomez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:49:56 +0000

To PhD Brianhttp: Ozzie. Smith.

By: Joe R

Joe R — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:12:40 +0000

I would say I’ve always been in favor of error bars for win value statistics, but that’s what PECOTA’s for.

By: illlogic

illlogic — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:44:42 +0000

Been clamoring for Cameron to the Yankees for the past few years and will continue this winter.

By: Jack's Son

Jack's Son — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:13:31 +0000

GMs overvalue offense just as much as WAR overvalues defense. Offensive numbers are verifiably quantitative while defensive metrics are subjectively quantitative. The defensive numbers have great value, but to weight them equally with such a large margin for error isn’t ideal