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From: [email protected] (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Notes on Jays vs. Indians Series
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In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Nelson Lu) writes:
>>>>>second basemen in history. He probably didn't even have as good a season as
>>>>>Alomar last year.
>>>
>>>Guess which line is which:
>>> BA OBP SLG AB H 2B 3B HR BB
>>>X .310 .405 .427 571 177 27 8 8 87
>>>Y .312 .354 .455 657 205 32 1 20 35
>>
>>>The walks should give it away. OBP's, in general, somewhat more valuable than
>>>slugging, and Alomar's edge in OBP was quite a bit larger than Baerga's edge
>>>in slugging.
>>
>>I'm no SDCN, but what's more valuable:
>>
>>28 hits w/5 more doubles, 12 more HRs OR
>>7 more triples and 52 BBs? (Let's not forget the 39 extra SBs. How many CS?)
>
>Of course the 28 hits and 12 homers are more valuable.
>
>But don't forget the 58 outs. You can't have it both ways; Baerga's higher
>raw numbers are due to him having more playing time, and thus he had more
>hits and homers, but don't forget the cost of those outs.
>
>(BTW, just to answer your question, Alomar had 49 SB and 9 CS; Baerga had
>10 SB and 2 CS, which gives a minute plus on Alomar's side.)
Something else to consider:
Alomar's H-R splits were .500-.363 SLG, .444-.369 OBP! Baerga's was .486-.424
and .392-.318. Pretty clearly, Alomar got a HUGE boost from his home park.
I'd say you could make a good for them being about equal right now. T&P
rated Baerga higher, actually.
Mike
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