Is Kenny Williams a genius or is this a fluke??

[goonys evil twin]

Regardless of whether the White Sox had a good offense or not, it is very clear that the man creates energy for the White Sox, and when he is on base things happen for them.

 

Things generally happen for teams when they get people on base or successfully steal, regardless who it is. What matters when judging the individual player is the rate at which he does those things successfully.

Not at all. That drags the conversation back to looking only at stats again. The whole point was that invidual stats like AVG/OBP/OPS don't tell the whole story in all cases.

 

[edit]The end-game point being that a measuring a player's wroth to his team can't always be ascertained in the indivudal stat column. Win Shares aren't out yet for 2005 that I can find, but it is kind of like trying to evaluate at that level.[/edit]

 

AVG/OBP/SLG does not tell the whole story, but it tells a whole lot more than the romanticists who like perpetuating the myth of intangibles.

[CubfaninCA]

Regardless of whether the White Sox had a good offense or not, it is very clear that the man creates energy for the White Sox, and when he is on base things happen for them.

 

Things generally happen for teams when they get people on base or successfully steal, regardless who it is. What matters when judging the individual player is the rate at which he does those things successfully.

Not at all. That drags the conversation back to looking only at stats again. The whole point was that invidual stats like AVG/OBP/OPS don't tell the whole story in all cases.

 

[edit]The end-game point being that a measuring a player's wroth to his team can't always be ascertained in the indivudal stat column. Win Shares aren't out yet for 2005 that I can find, but it is kind of like trying to evaluate at that level.[/edit]

 

AVG/OBP/SLG does not tell the whole story, but it tells a whole lot more than the romanticists who like perpetuating the myth of intangibles.

 

Is romanticists an acceptable label here?? I hope so. I like it. :)

[CubfaninCA]

Guess this should go here, as it pertains to Kenny Williams. One move that really panned out for Kenny was the acquisition of Jermaine Dye, who's 6th in ops amongst rf's and who had an ops that was 90 points greater than Burnitz. Nice pickup for 2 years and 10 mil.