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  1. jimmer
    Suzuki was rated as one of the worst framers in baseball last year and his unsustainable first half hitting predictably came back down to his normal poor level in the last couple months. I would hope his job isn't secure in the least.
  2. jimmer
    Without digging too deep, perhaps because it's a comparable stat and, most of the time the worst OF are in LF (even moreso when he was playing) so his competition for comparison was worse? Nowadays Alex Gordon is a nice exception, as was Trout when he played there. Plus, if I remember correctly, his arm wasn't great, at least not what you would expect from a RF. I often wonder how losing the ball in the Metrodome ceiling effected his LF numbers. That was often comical :-)
  3. jimmer
    Unless I'm reading it wrong, seems to me that ball hit high on the wall wouldn't negatively affect the RF UZR, since it's not catchable, UZR would just not account for the play at all, like it never happened. Like walks don't affect a BA.
  4. jimmer
    From Fangraphs: The data also tells us if a ball hits off an outfield wall (on the fly) and whether, in the judgment of the “stringer,” it was catchable or not. If not, then the play is ignored. If a “wall ball” was catchable, it is treated like any other batted ball at that distance, with no regard for whether it hit the wall or not.
  5. jimmer
    So you're saying that after acquiring the worst defensive RF in baseball over the last two years, we should expect his numbers to be even worse because of TF's RF wall? :-)
  6. jimmer
    People like to compare Raines to Rickey, but there's another person who might be a better fit for comparison. Raines finished his career with a .385 OBP, a .425 SLG and a 123 OPS+ in 10,359 PA Gwynn finished his career with a .388 OBP, a 459 SLG and a 132 OPS+ in 10,232 PA Raines scored 1,571 runs and drove in 980 Gwynn scored 1,383 runs and drove in 1,138 Raines stole 808 bases and was caught 146 times Gwynn stole 319 bases and was caught 125 times B-ref WAR has Raines at 66.2, good for 97th all-time. It has Gwynn at 65.3 wins, 102nd place all-time. the one real difference between him and Raines was hits. Raines had 2,605 hits and Gwynn had 3,141. That’s a difference of 536. However, Raines had 1,330 walks to Gwynn’s 790, a difference of 540.
  7. jimmer
    Well, he was better than Tommy John and Kaat. Those two are comparable to each other, with John beinga little better and Mussina being quite a bit better than both. Problem is when you let lesser pitchers in, some even first ballot, it makes it harder to say a guy like Mussina shouldn't be in. That's what has happened. Mussina's biggest problem is that he was never flashy, he just went about doing his job professionally and didn't push for the spotlight, but he was as good as Smoltz if not better, better than Glavine and better than many others that are in.
  8. jimmer
    yeah, here’s a guy who finished in the top 10 in ERA+ 11 times in a 17 year span ’92-’08. 7 of those 11 times, he was top 5. All this while pitching in the AL East against the best offenses in the game.
  9. jimmer
    I agree with most of that. Not the dominance part in regards to Morris, or Oliva being deserving, but overall I agree we want it to be the Hall of Fame. Problem is, everyone has their view on where the line of very good and great meet. Mussina, IMO, belongs. I don't even care about the Wins/Loss stat for pitcher, so, for me, it has nothing at all to do with that.
  10. jimmer
    Mauer had an off year for sure, but his OBP is normally very high and the last thing you want is that kind of OBP buried down in the lineup. The guys that get on base the most should be the ones that have the most plate appearances. Not only that, but he normally hits very well with RISP. And the idea that he hits into way too many double plays, well that's not really true based on amount of opportunities he comes to the plate in those situations. Nor is it a lot based on overall times batting into a DP.
  11. jimmer
    Schilling ERA+ 127, his WAR 83.2 Mussina's ERA+ 123 (exclusively in the AL...and not only that, the AL East), his WAR 82.5 Smoltz ERA+ 125, his WAR 78.7 Glavine's ERA+ 118, his WAR 64.3 Morris ERA+ 105, his WAR 52.5
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