Batter's Box Team Previews (March 1, 2004)
You can keep up with the team previews from the gang at Batter's Box at the above link.
--posted by TangoTiger at 01:56 PM EDT
Posted 3:20 p.m.,
March 1, 2004
(#1) -
Matt Rauseo
GPA, my ass.
Posted 4:48 p.m.,
March 1, 2004
(#2) -
Patriot
I don't know why Matt is so hostile towards GPA, but at least GPA manages to make a BA scale without messing up the proportional relationship between two players(unlike EQA).
Sorry for hijacking the DBacks thread.
Posted 5:10 p.m.,
March 1, 2004
(#3) -
Matt Rauseo
If your going add, multiple and divide why not just use linear weights?
Posted 11:10 p.m.,
March 1, 2004
(#4) -
AED
Yeah, once you get past OPS, it's not something the average person can do without a calculator. At which point, you should use something more significant. If you want a batting average scale, how about multiplying Tango's lwtsOBA by 0.78? Or the base equation of EqA could be scaled to give another comparable value, but lwtsOBA is better-correlated with run production than is EqA.
Posted 12:59 a.m.,
March 2, 2004
(#5) -
Robert S
Very solid analysis.
I'm not as optimistic about Arizona's chances in 2004:
- Luis Gonzalez is playing despite the fact that he needs surgery on his throwing arm; he may last the season or he may be finished tomorrow - I don't have much faith in the former for an outfielder of his age
- the D-Backs are already unable to field three good outfielders and if Gonzalez goes down, it's going to be ugly out there
- After Johnson and Webb, who are both huge question marks, the rotation listed looks awful; I'm not familiar with Fossum, but his numbers and projections are not impressive
- Arizona has quite a few good-looking young arms in MLB/AAA limbo who should be given a shot; Dessens and Reynolds need to pitch as few innings as possible
- Dudek is right about the bullpen; Villarreal, for one, is too good to waste there and Brenly seems determined to underutilize him
- the infield defense is going to be bad; hopefully, Cintron can pick up some slack from Hillenbrand, but I don't think that there is anything that can be done about the right side - these guys are going to hurt Webb the most