| Tm | Lg | Year | G | AB | R | H | BB | SO | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | K/W | BABIP | G/L/F % | $4x4 | $5x5 |
| ATL | NL | 2008 | 96 | 317 | 45 | 93 | 22 | 44 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 40 | 0 | 1 | .293 | .338 | .416 | 2.0 | .333 | n/a | 8 | 9 |
| ATL | A | 2009 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .294 | .400 | .294 | 0.7 | .333 | n/a | ||
| ATL | NL | 2009 | 70 | 203 | 24 | 62 | 19 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 0 | .305 | .361 | .389 | 1.5 | .347 | n/a | 7 | 7 |
| ATL | NL | 2010 | 134 | 471 | 65 | 151 | 29 | 62 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 47 | 7 | 6 | .321 | .359 | .416 | 2.1 | .357 | n/a | 20 | 20 |
| FLA | NL | 2011 | 148 | 579 | 55 | 160 | 34 | 67 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 49 | 4 | 2 | .276 | .315 | .382 | 2.0 | .303 | 42/22/36 | 13 | 13 |
| FLA | NL | 2012 | 34 | 126 | 20 | 41 | 5 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 0 | .325 | .348 | .579 | 2.8 | .330 | 39/16/45 | 9 | 8 |
| Career | 11yrs | 976 | 3288 | 401 | 910 | 209 | 521 | 163 | 34 | 58 | 336 | 51 | 23 | .277 | .319 | .400 | 2.5 | .315 | ||||
| 9 comments | PK 5x5: $12 MF 5x5: $11 AP 4x4: $12 |
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Alex Apr 9
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On Baseball Tonight (or was it MLB tonight? or both?) they looked wind-aided. But even with that, well struck. He can hit. | |
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MikeG Apr 9
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I think Infante's two HR today and three thus far on the season were more unlikely than Zito's shutout. Or at least somewhere in that neighborhood. | |
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Toz Feb 15
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You can always play Scoresheet. You can really tinker with rules, etc. there. I do not, because I just don't have the time, but I have plenty of friends who do and they love it. There is another site like that one, and I just can't think of the name of it right now. |
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Seadogs Feb 15
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Alex -- I've wondered about leagues such as the Rotissere500 concept or Ottoneu as well. I sort of like the idea of a league that had: Unlimited keepers per team. Players salary increases +5 each season. Players become free agents after 6 years. I think the "players become free agents after 6 years" (which hurts your draft pool) is made up for by "add 5 to salary each year". |
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Rotoman Feb 7
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I think the genius of the game are the categories. WAR might make a game where the better performing team actually wins, but without ways to try to bend the system to your team's strengths and weaknesses, how much fun would it be? I think it could be okay, but not great. At least WAR responds to PT. When we used to talk about using OPS (or SLOB, remember that?) the strategies would be about picking off the choice at bats/ip, not amassing quality. |
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Alex Feb 7
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When I posted this, I thought a game based on cumulative WAR scores would indeed be crazy. Thinking about it for a week now, I'm not so sure. $260 salary cap. 25-man rosters. Or even 40-man rosters with the stipulation that the 15 extras are not in the majors at the time of the draft. These players would be taken in a snake draft and have a salary of, say, $5 the following season. Same trade deadline as the real GMs face. Unlimited freeze lists each year. After six seasons, no freezes. Every player is a free agent. Be kind of fun, no? The only thing unrealistic is the salary cap. And the fact that your freeze list is voluntary; you can cut anyone you feel like at the end of the year. |
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Alex Jan 30
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As with all defensive metrics, including errors, there’s a lot of discretion among the scorers, both official and unofficial. Baseball Reference tells us that Infante turned 75 double plays last year. It doesn’t tell us how many he didn’t turn. It doesn’t tell us whether he got good or bad feeds from Hanley Ramirez (we can guess). Hanley played only 86 games at SS, so he doesn’t make the Handbook’s cut for SS Pivot %. But Rollins and Utley do, and Rollins turned a whole bunch of DP’s (72 percent), Utley comparatively few (50 percent). Did Utley make good feeds to Rollins and Rollins bad feeds to Utley? Or were the 6-4-3 chances just much more difficult than the 4-6-3 chances? Or did Utley, with his physical problems, not have his usual agility? The eleven voters for the Handbook’s Fielding Bible Awards ranked Utley sixth in the majors last year with 50 points. All eleven had him somewhere on their ballot (ranging from Peter Gammons, first, to Doug Glanville, tenth). Infante actually got three votes, good for 15 points, tying him with Danny Espinosa as the tenth guy on the list. The Handbook also has Runs Saved and Plus/Minus Leaders, John Dewan’s brainchild. It combines a whole bunch of numbers, all of which depend on the judgment of the BIS scorers, “to form a complete evaluation of a fielder.” Infante’s not in the top ten. Nor is Utley. Baseball Reference gives Infante a dWAR of 1.7 last season, the best of his career. His oWAR was also 1.7 and his 3.4 overall WAR score is the best of his career by a lot. Not to us, mind. He was a better player in 2010. By a lot. But the fact is, with his defensive prowess added in, Omar Infante produced darn near as many Wins Above Replacement as Chase Utley did in 2011 . Darn near (Utley’s WAR scores: 2.8 for his hitting, 0.8 for his defense, 3.6 in total). Actually, Infante came perilously close to Utley in $4x4 and $5x5, but that’s a whole different issue. We accept that Utley was a terrible disappointment and Infante, against all expectations, a nice surprise. We are long used to disappointment and surprise in our crude way of measuring things. My question for those who have read this far: suppose we used the more refined measurement that so many people here place great stock in? Simply add up all the WAR scores of all the hitters and pitchers on active rosters and declare the team with the highest total the champ. Would that be more realistic? Hence more fun? Or would we be driven crazy? |
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Rotoman Jan 30
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I know nothing about this stat, but in 98 games I doubt there's more than 150 chances. Do hopeless pivots where the ball get there too late count? It would take a lot to turn a good percentage into a bad one. Having a bad partner would seem to be key to failure. | |
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Alex Jan 30
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The NL leader in 2B Pivot % with .695. The ninth player on this list in the Bill James Handbook is Darwin Barney (.569) and then there's a big drop to the tenth player, Chase Utley (.500).
Minimum 98 games to qualify for this list. Too bad the cut-off isn't something like 50 games; we'd get a better idea of how Utley stacks up. I have to think converting only half your DP chances isn't very good. Whereas converting 70 percent is clearly very good. |
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