ESPN Insider - Lineup Rankings

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Also, speed and balance are dumb categories to weigh equally to contact patience and power. What year is this, 1985? 

And there's the rub that often takes down these kinds of ratings.

 

Equally weighting all categories rarely leads to accuracy because virtually nothing in life carries balanced weight, especially when you reach five categories.

[jkcarew]

You lost me at PAYING for baseball content from ESPN.

 

I refuse to pay them as much as a click. And urge all to do the same.

[TFRazor]

 

Is there a prize for being ranked Number One? Like a 1 run handicap, or a year's supply of juiced balls?

 

Desperate times these.

First 500 fans get free trash cans

[Greglw3]

It has to be the work of the ONION.

[MN_ExPat]

 

They ranked each team on 5 categories. Here are the categories and how they ranked the Twins on each:

 

Contact: 19 | Patience: 8 | Power: 10 | Speed: 23 | Balance: 10

 

 

Power 10th?!?!?! OMG. You can't make this up.

Apparently ESPN's trained monkey snoze berry pickers did just that. 

[TwinsFan268]

What the heck were they thinking? We have Cruz, we have Donaldson, we have other players like Garver & Sano & Kepler & Rosario. We have 6 30+ home run hitters? How do they rank us 6th?

[alphanumeric]

 

Also, speed and balance are dumb categories to weigh equally to contact, patience and power. What year is this, 1985? 

 

Lol yeah, who the hell wants "balance" when you can just hit 300+ home runs?  

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Lol yeah, who the hell wants "balance" when you can just hit 300+ home runs?  

More importantly, what does "balance" even mean and why is it important?

 

At least speed can be quantified and is useful, whether it be stolen bases or advancing runners an extra base.

 

"Balance" means nothing, it's just a thing that looks good on a spreadsheet. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Lol seriously?  Is that a joke article. I guess they were last year but after all this stink they still have them at 1?

I have no real problem putting the Astros at one, they're a very good lineup.

 

I could list 3-4 teams to put at number one and have no real quibbles with it.

 

Where it gets laughable is that the Yankees are nine and the Twins are 12. They're in the mix of the top five, at minimum, and I'd throw the Dodgers in there with the Astros. That's probably the top four.

[strumdatjaguar]

Eastern Sports Protional Network

[akmanak]

Nothing new with in regards to NYESPNBOS giving the Twins any credit.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Nothing new with in regards to NYESPNBOS giving the Twins any credit.

The Yankees were ranked ninth so the list isn't biased, it's just bad.