2009 Surprising Numbers

[BCVM22]

Players whose season numbers make you go "seriously?", either above or below expectations.

 

David Aardsma:

3-6, 38/42 in saves, 71.1 IP, 80 K, 34 BB

[Wilson A2000]

I saw in another thread that Wuertz had a pretty solid year.

[ELCABALLO45]

Casey McGehee (He went 1-1 today and didn't update his stats yet)

 

.299/.359/.497/.856

[ISUCubsFan]

Derek Jeter +7.2 UZR comes to mind.

 

Whatever ridiculous numbers Greinke put up.

 

Adam Dunn not hitting exactly 40 home runs.

[CubbieBum]

The Cubs win total.

[Schwarber Fan]

Randy Wells

[ELCABALLO45]

Derrek Lee as well kinda suprised me this year

[Cubswin11]

Zobrist and Aaron Hill

[bukie]

Chone Figgins was 6th in the AL with a .395 OBP and led the AL in walks with 101.

[bukie]

Derrek Lee as well kinda suprised me this year

Yeah, I don't really think anybody expected Lee to finish with the 5th best OPS in baseball after his April.

 

Post-ASB, he actually led all of baseball in OPS.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Alfonso Soriano and Geovany Soto.

[Guest]

Derek Jeter +7.2 UZR comes to mind..

 

That should put to bed the validity of UZR as a descriptive statistic.

[17 Seconds]

jason bartlett

[TruffleShuffle]

if you'd told me that zobrist and bartlett would have the seasons they had, i probably would've guessed that the rays scored 1000 runs and coasted into the playoffs.

 

adam lind hit 46 doubles and 35 home runs and knocked in 114... where the hell did that come from.

 

heath bell led the NL in saves, and pitched the entire year for the padres (who outperformed their pyth by 9 wins).

 

the twins' starting pitching was much less terrible than i would have expected, especially considering that liriano was awful and slowey went out for the year before the ASB.

[ELCABALLO45]

Derek Jeter +7.2 UZR comes to mind..

 

That should put to bed the validity of UZR as a descriptive statistic.

 

Or you know.. he had a good year defensivly?

[NonProfitCow]

Derek Jeter +7.2 UZR comes to mind..

 

That should put to bed the validity of UZR as a descriptive statistic.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/uzr-2008-to-2009

[Keener98]

Joel Pinerio 3.49 ERA 11 homeruns in 214 innings pitched

 

Ryan Franklin 1.92 ERA 2 homeruns in 61 innings pitched.

 

Those are the biggest 2 off top of my head

[Tarver]

Whatever Vernon Wells made this year.

[sweetpeteman]

Whatever Vernon Wells made this year.

 

 

At least according to Cot's, Wells only made around $5 to $6 million this year. Next year is when his contract goes off the deep end.

[Tarver]

Five or six is still too much.

[sneakypower]

tulowitzki being maybe the best player in baseball post-May

[Guest]

Whatever Vernon Wells made this year.

 

 

At least according to Cot's, Wells only made around $5 to $6 million this year. Next year is when his contract goes off the deep end.

 

Looks like $10M this year - $1.5M in salary and $8.5M from the signing bonus. Each of the next five years he'll make at least $21M including his signing bonus.

[OleMissCub]

adam lind hit 46 doubles and 35 home runs and knocked in 114... where the hell did that come from.

 

who?

[TruffleShuffle]

adam lind hit 46 doubles and 35 home runs and knocked in 114... where the hell did that come from.

 

who?

 

i knew who he was, but i was perusing the mlb scoreboard on saturday (i think it was saturday, can't remember) and under toronto home runs it said Lind 3 (35). i was pretty stunned by that.

[Clem Fandango]

adam lind hit 46 doubles and 35 home runs and knocked in 114... where the hell did that come from.

 

who?

 

i knew who he was, but i was perusing the mlb scoreboard on saturday (i think it was saturday, can't remember) and under toronto home runs it said Lind 3 (35). i was pretty stunned by that.

 

A former University of South Alabama Jaguar! My alma mater! w00t

 

I'll keep the celebration to a minimum... Juan Pierre is from there, too :oops: