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There's two different arguments, I think. One where you teleport Ted Williams from 1942 to 2007 or whatever and have him play a season. Then there's the question of how good would Ted Williams be if he was born in 1984 and pursued baseball.

Anything sort of brawl activity that happens on a baseball field is much safer than going into the stands (after a handicapped person?) or getting in a street fight with weapons. I can't believe that comparison is being made here. I didn't know Ruth attacked three umpires. I thought he just had to be restrained once while he was pitching.

Kennedy isnt that good. Chamberlain is a reliever. Hughes is Mark Prior. Hughes is going to have a career 167 ERA+. That's much better than Prior. mark prior would have had a 178 if he didnt get hurt, you know that. hughes is also going to get hurt You're no fun. I'm going to blame it on Yankeesfan.

Kennedy isnt that good. Chamberlain is a reliever. Hughes is Mark Prior. Hughes is going to have a career 167 ERA+. That's much better than Prior.

You just quoted a post where you said your point was the grinders fed off each other. Why do you want the Yankees to spend money on pitching? Hughes, Chamberlain and Kennedy will be cubically transformed soon.

Oh, I just went back to the last O'Neill/Williams/Brosius WS winner. The 1998 Yankees sure had some great stats as a team.

The 2007 Yankees stole 24 more bases and hit 19 OPS pts higher with RISP than the 2000 Yankees.

Scott Brosius was a winner. Let's face facts here.

The second part wasn't directed at you. This is pretty sick though. Too bad for them Rodriguez is likely leaving. Name P Age AVG OBP SLG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS Alex Rodriguez 3b 32 .305 .410 .583 159 590 127 180 30 1 44 151 93 132 16 3 Jason Giambi* dh 37 .241 .398 .482 110 340 58 82 13 0 23 77 75 86 0 0 Bobby Abreu* rf 34 .284 .391 .445 156 573 106 163 37 2 17 111 99 117 22 7 Hideki Matsui* lf 34 .290 .368 .476 142 544 95 158 33 4 20 106 67 71 2 2 Jorge Posada# c 36 .283 .380 .447 133 452 67 128 29 0 15 78 66 92 2 0 Derek Jeter ss 34 .308 .386 .435 151 616 106 190 33 3 13 83 66 106 15 5 AVERAGE 1B/DH ---------- 1b ---- .279 .357 .475 ------------------------------------------ Robinson Cano* 2b 25 .308 .349 .488 149 584 87 180 41 5 18 98 34 73 3 4 AVERAGE LF ------------- lf ---- .277 .349 .456 ------------------------------------------ AVERAGE RF ------------- rf ---- .277 .346 .458 ------------------------------------------ AVERAGE 3B ------------- 3b ---- .274 .343 .449 ------------------------------------------ Wilson Betemit# 3b 26 .259 .335 .462 131 301 42 78 17 1 14 46 34 86 1 1 Melky Cabrera# cf 23 .286 .352 .419 159 580 83 166 29 6 12 89 59 65 13 4 Doug Mientkiewicz* 1b 34 .272 .356 .412 82 250 33 68 15 1 6 35 29 41 0 0 Johnny Damon* cf 34 .279 .348 .408 130 519 93 145 25 3 12 67 54 73 17 4 AVERAGE CF ------------- cf ---- .272 .336 .425 ------------------------------------------ AVERAGE 2B ------------- 2b ---- .276 .337 .414 ------------------------------------------

That's being nice. I'll take the under for any amount of money. The Yankees offense will be fine. ZiPS projects them to have five above average starters as it stands right now. Cano, Abreu, Jeter, Matsui...Giambi? Who's the fifth? Joba Chamberlain? Sorry, I could've worded that better.

That's being nice. I'll take the under for any amount of money. The Yankees offense will be fine. ZiPS projects them to have five above average starters as it stands right now.

to his career .322 mark?

It's his hitting, not defense, that's the problem. Moving him to first would be nuts.

I don't see why this is such a terrible deal for Houston. They didn't get anything really exciting, but what kind of return should you expect for a year of Brad Lidge (where he'll cost $7M or whatever)?

Pujols isn't available.

I'd take Zimmerman over any of them. UZR disagrees, but I don't know where anyone falls out of the top three (Feliz, Rolen and Ramirez). Zimmerman seems like he's fantastic at third and his true talent may well be up there. I haven't watched him play much at all, for whatever that's worth. Players can definitely have peak (outlier, career, whatever) defensive years, and I doubt that the GG voters ever get a handle on that.

David Wright is much improved by all accounts. However, there is no way that he deserves the award over Feliz or Rolen. He probably wasn't as good as Ramirez either, but they both take a backseat to the obvious two.

It makes people uncomfortable when they don't understand something. A common defense mechanism is to make fun of it, or the people that support the idea. It's easier than taking the time to learn about something. This example probably couldn't be further from the truth, but whatever. It shouldn't matter either way.

I'd vote for whatever width doesn't screw up the margins.

"If they had this book when I was playing, I would have been the best shortstop who ever lived!" - Ozzie Guillen on The Fielding Bible What a saber nerd.

because the player is being paid the most when he is likely to be playing the worst, making him that much more impossible to trade So you just eat some contract. The sum total doesn't change. The only difference is you pay it later. Which would be a good thing from my understanding of money time value.

Why is backloading it a bad idea?

Follow the link to that interview posted on the first page. Also, here's an interview from THT. Both cover some of the methodology. You'd also come up with a lot just by searching The Hardball Times on either the plus/minus system or defensive stats in general. As far as what the plays are worth, .75 runs is a good approximation. That's the lwt value of the baserunner plus the additional out. I'm under the impression that this varies by position, but I don't know how much. Maybe Meph can answer that.

That's in 645 innings in CF.

+/- is John Dewan.