John Dewan on Rookies of the Year

by FuturePants on Sep 17, 2009 6:37 PM CDT Comment 18 comments

This is from his "Stat of the Week" e-mail (I forget how to sign up; TBall told me), so I won't post the whole thing, but really interesting. A couple of highlights:

Rookies and Runs Created:

2009 Top Rookie Hitters, MLB

Player                                  Runs Created
Chris Coghlan, Marlins           74
Seth Smith, Rockies                 62
Dexter Fowler, Rockies            62
Nolan Reimold, Orioles           60
Andrew McCutchen, Pirates    59
Elvis Andrus, Rangers            59

Player

Runs
Created

Baserunning
Runs

Runs Saved

Positional
Adjustment

Total Runs

Elvis Andrus, Rangers

101

Nolan Reimold, Orioles

-1

Jeff Niemann, Rays

73*

-4

Ricky Romero, Blue Jays

67*

Andrew Bailey, A's

66*

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Partial thread hijack

David Brown has an in-depth piece on the Rangers’ rookies that’s slated to come down the pipeline tomorrow morning.

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by Joey Matschulat on Sep 17, 2009 6:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

oh shit

Now I won’t be able to sleep tonight. :)

Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year

by RangerMad on Sep 17, 2009 7:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Me neither!

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by Joey Matschulat on Sep 17, 2009 7:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You're a vampire anyway

you probably just ate breakfast.

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by t ball on Sep 17, 2009 11:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hank is 7 runs below a zombie replacement at first base. Do you realize how terrible that is? Zombie’s can’t think, they’re slow, and they’re often ejected from the game for eating opposing baserunners’ brains. - Ben quantifies Hank Blalock

by lonestarJon on Sep 17, 2009 8:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another breakdown:RAR

Name Batting Fielding Pitching Positional Replacement Overall

Elvis Andrus -1.9 8.9 5.9 15.7 28.7
Nolan Reimold 11.7 -6.6 -5.4 13.6 13.3
Jeff Niemann 31.1 31.1
Ricky Romero 24.7 24.7
Andrew Bailey 21.5 21.5

I like steak.

by Conjunction on Sep 17, 2009 7:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, that went well ><

I like steak.

by Conjunction on Sep 17, 2009 7:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

LSB doesn't like spaces

need to put some …… between your data

Elvis Andrus - 2009 AL Rookie of the Year
Mitch Moreland -Tom Grieve Rangers Minor League Player of the Year
Martin Perez - Nolan Ryan Rangers Minor League Pitcher of the Year

by RangerMad on Sep 17, 2009 7:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Email

I thought you could get the stat of the day email from Bill James’ website.

by Excel Hearts Choi on Sep 17, 2009 8:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That's a good one

And far better formatted than mine, heh.

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by Conjunction on Sep 17, 2009 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just have Dewan's site bookmarked

http://actasports.com/sows.php

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by t ball on Sep 17, 2009 11:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

By the way

the coolest thing about that is Elvis being the best in total runs before the positional adjustment.

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by t ball on Sep 17, 2009 11:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Does the positional adjustment also factor in chances?

IIRC, Elvis’ chances have been on the high side for an AL SS.

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by FuturePants on Sep 18, 2009 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I assumed

that was more part of the runs saved, I believe the positional adjustment is the same for all SSs.

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by t ball on Sep 18, 2009 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So Elvis is the ROY, and it's not particularly close

by Sherman McCoy on Sep 18, 2009 12:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Sabermetrically speaking, yes

Not everyone is aware of stats aside from W, L, ERA, Batting average, and RBI, though.

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by Conjunction on Sep 18, 2009 2:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Today BTB on Twitter...

…talked about how they were being rational about the AL Cy Young this morning and were going to give it to Greinke, but then took it away………BECAUSE OF WINS.

Morans.

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by FuturePants on Sep 18, 2009 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs