latest posts by Herman

OK but the choices aren't either 'winning' or 'sabermetrics' You can do both, which is what the Yankees should be doing. The Rays won the division last year by using their brains and not their wallets. Imagine what the Rays or A's could do with a $200 million payroll....it wouldn't include...

Player A is Aramis Ramirez, B is Rolen

Player A WAR Baseball Reference: 2.1 Fangraphs: 2.4 Player B WAR B-R: 0.3 Fangraphs: 1.3 Guess who is your NL 3B All-Star Replacement!!! Why do Fangraphs and B-R differentiate so much on Player B :clueless: At least McCutch made it

I disagree that Derek Jeter leading off for the Yankees at $17M a year at age 37-39 is +EV because of his leadership. I'm sure the Rays and Red Sox have no problem with it though. How much does his leadership enhance his WAR and UZR, along with his teammates WAR and UZR? Does his leadership...

Props to Derek Jeter for his 3,000th hit today, great career for sure.... However, I find it extremely hilarious that the Yanks are paying $51 million over 3 years for a replacement level player. Baseball Reference calculates Jeter's WAR so far this year at 0.0, while FanGraphs gives him a tad...

You don't think they'll be allowed to toss foul balls into the stands? That could have easily been a HR ball during the game that the guy reached out for.... Only thing that MIGHT change would be railings, they'll still toss in tons of balls into the crowd.

Who is this guy?

I doubt players stop chucking balls into the crowd. Normally during the game though the players chuck it deep into the crowd, because if they do the first row people usually bobble it and it falls back on the field and holds up play. I'm shocked Hamilton just tossed it into the front row, for...

Sad story indeed, just saying I saw discussion elsewhere on the internet talking about lawsuits and the like.....you know how our country is.

Yep, one of the Ray's scouts begged them to take Pujols early but the guy pulling the strings declined.

BJ Upton plays center for Tampa, and has since he was an epic fail in the infield in his rookie year. I don't recall Franklin Gutierrez playing for Tampa.

They don't need a net, the railings meet federal code. Also, people talking about a lawsuit, current case law sides with the MLB. A previous lawsuit attempt failed because the railings met federal code.

Of course it did, they won 96 games with around a $60 million payroll, and won the division. Certainly you're not judging an entire season on a 5 game playoff series where they faced Cliff Lee twice? Even the worst team in the MLB could beat the best team in a 5 game series something like 30%...

Ah, yeah it was Ackley who was the #2 pick in that draft, he's also a pretty good player. Says a lot about scouting I guess that the #2 prospect in baseball fell all the way to the 25th pick. Tough job, might as well go the moneyball route in scouting.

Interesting in The Extra 2% however is how the Rays found that defense was undervalued in the current market similar to the A's and OBP in years past. Ben Zobrist is basically like the best player ever for the value in sabermetric terms. Also, they raped Longoria on that contract although in...