| Re: Fun with baseball stats
Interesting stats, Tom. So based on your statistics, the old Billy Beane theories appear to hold true as far as OBP, but it seems like they don't consider Slugging to be as important, seeing as they never really have many players that rank highly in that category. In fact, I believe Frank Thomas had a nice season with them a couple years back and they let him go for next to nothing.
If I'm not mistaken, Barry Bonds OPS was well over 1.000 last year which even at his age, ranked among the league leaders. All baggage aside, I'm quite surprised that nobody has given him a call.
OPS is regarded as maybe the most important stat in baseball, so it's surprising to me that Jimmy Rollins, even though he had a tremendous season, won the NL MVP award when 4 of his own teammates were ahead of him in OPS!
Stolen bases seem to be a relative non-factor in your statistics, but that's where I think some stats do not tell the whole story.. Pitchers say that a stolen base or someone who is a big time base stealer can throw them off their game and ruin an entire inning, thus disrupting their performance later on..
It's opinion but also.. immeasurable. |