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Giants Find Their Left-Fielder; At Least for 2015

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Johnny Lumsden — No Comments ↓

On Monday, January 19, the San Francisco Giants finalized a deal with their 2014 World Series foes’ free-agent outfielder, Nori Aoki; for at least the 2015 season. Nori will get paid a base salary of $4 million in 2015, with a $5.5 million team option for 2016 that includes a $700,000 buyout. This new contract with the speedy outfielder also has performance bonuses attached to it in result of Aoki only appearing in 132 games last season, after playing in 155 in 2013 with Milwaukee. This will be Aoki’s third team in the last 3 seasons including 2015, but the Continue reading Giants Find Their Left-Fielder; At Least for 2015→

Best Rotation in Decades: Nats on Pace for 100 Wins?

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Johnny Lumsden — 2 Comments ↓

The Nationals were arguably the best team in the National League, if not the whole major leagues, in 2014, when they won 96 games on their way to comfortably winning the NL East. Their pitching was superb, producing an ERA of 3.03, which was the lowest. They had 3 rotation men with an ERA of fewer than 3, including the #4, Tanner Roark, going 15-10 with a 2.85 ERA. The rest of the rotation consisted of Jordan Zimmermann, strikeout specialist Stephen Strasburg, veteran left-hander Gio Gonzalez, and former Tiger Doug Fister. Unfortunately though, it wasn’t good enough to overcome the Continue reading Best Rotation in Decades: Nats on Pace for 100 Wins?→

Week of 1-12-15

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Johnny Lumsden — No Comments ↓

Legend: Vada Pinson was one of the most underrated center-fielders of all-time. He only made 2 all-star teams throughout his career, but his total numbers came out to be very worthy of the Hall, despite never getting enough votes for Cooperstown throughout his 15 years of eligibility. The total stats that are arguably border lines for the Hall of Fame are 4000 total bases, 3000 hits, 1500 runs, 1500 RBI’s, 400 stolen bases, 500 doubles, etc. Vada Pinson ended up with 4264 total bases, 2757 hits (in just over 2400 games), 1365 runs (4 seasons with over 100), and 485 Continue reading Week of 1-12-15→

WAR?

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Johnny Lumsden — No Comments ↓

Bill James and his Sabermetric crew developed so many different stats starting in the 1980’s, and a lot of them are looked at and evaluated, but one advanced stat that stands out in discussions, is wins above replacement (WAR). The true definition is: the number of additional wins their team has amassed relative to the number of expected team wins if that player was substituted by a replacement level player; according to Sabermetrics. WAR is an attempt to sum up a player’s total contributions to his team. Besides WAR, there is runs created, BtRuns, OWn%, etc., that also help contribute Continue reading WAR?→