Comments on: Jorge Julio to Milwaukee

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:18:15 +0000

I like this move. And I wouldn’t be too surprised if Julio got to see a few high leverage situations this year, as the state of the Brewers pen, well, just isn’t very good at this point.

By: David Golebiewski

David Golebiewski — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:54:30 +0000

I had a quick question about calculating reliever value: how exactly does one account for leverage in the player’s dollar value? I know leverage index is involved, but is there a specific calculation that you guys use?

By: snepp

snepp — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:15:33 +0000

Here’s a small update for your spreadsheet if you’re interested. The Twins reported budget for this season was $75 million dollars, roughly $18 million more than what they ended up spending on payroll.

By: Dave Cameron

Dave Cameron — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:23:03 +0000

Almost.

Copy and paste the 2008 team salary data from USAToday. Multiply the numbers by 1.xx (whatever you want the markup to be – I picked 5%, you can put whatever you want though). Subtract $12,000,000 to account for the cost of a team of replacement level players.

That’s your marginal payroll. Divide by 40 to get team wide marginal $/win rates for a 90 win goal. If you want to pick different goal, just divide by a different number.

By: Samg

Samg — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:15:53 +0000

OK. I just want to be able to do my own independent analysis is these dark days without baseball.

By: Eric Seidman

Eric Seidman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:11:22 +0000

Sam, if you mean Dave’s spreadsheet, you would have to ask him. It shouldn’t be too tough to replicate, though. Go to the USA Today database, record the 2008 Payroll for each team, factor in a 5-6% markup, then divide by 40 and that will give you the average dollars/win for each team.

By: Samg

Samg — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:52:41 +0000

Any chance I could have the actual spreadsheet?