Yes. Hence the reason that ignore defense when I say the Sox were not crippled by injuries this year. Their replacement players did far better than could have been expected, and defense doesn't mean much.
It's the pitching that was the thing. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Charles Battikha <[email protected]> wrote: > You might think that why worry about defense at all. > Looking at all fielders, you get a +19 to -21 range. Or +/- 2 games. > > But offensive gets you a range of +6/-3 games > > The WAR (Wins above Replacement) is cool. > So a team of Evan Longoria leads with 7.7 runs > Jeter is #86 of all batters. > > Boston as a team had the best WAR (28.5) for batters. > But a middle of the road WAR (15.1) for pitchers. > > Clay & CC were 2nd with 5.4 > > So better to have Evan than Clay? Hmmm > > I can't help it. Baseball stats are endlessly cool to me. I'm such a geek. > No more baseball. Back to football. > > On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Ray Salemi wrote: > > So the best SS won his team 1 game and the worst lost his team 1 game (10 > runs = 1 game) > > That seems low. > > Ray > > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Steve Ouellette > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Derek Jeter. Check out his ranking in RTOT (fielding runs above average). >> >> >> http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2010-specialpos_ss-fielding.shtml#players_standard_fielding::13 >> >> Steve O >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Red Sox Citizens" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<redsoxcitizens%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Author of Robot > Haiku<http://www.amazon.com/Robot-Haiku-Humans-Robots-Decide/dp/1440511977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289168402&sr=8-1> > : Poems > for humans to read until their robots decide it's kill time. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<redsoxcitizens%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > -- Author of Robot Haiku<http://www.amazon.com/Robot-Haiku-Humans-Robots-Decide/dp/1440511977/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1289168402&sr=8-1> : Poems for humans to read until their robots decide it's kill time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en.
