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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: Chris Young DOESN'T win Gold Glove: Your thoughts? |
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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He didn't hit enough to win the Gold Glove. |
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: |
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He didn't hit enough to win the Gold Glove. |
My initial thoughts exactly. 
It really is a shame; you'd think that people that close to the "inside" of baseball would actually know how to award the correct players (or, for that matter, not award the unworthy players...).
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Defensive awards are the toughest to award, and are almost purely reputational. If he deserved it, it was because he was too young and yes, didn't hit well enough. But it's unclear whether he really deserved it. |
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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NL CF
Fielding Bible +/-
1.) Beltran +24
2.) Young +23
3.) Ross +15
4.) Gerut +12
5.) Victorino +10
Mclouth -40 (35th)
THT RZR (Based on BIS Data)
1.) Ross .952
2.) Young .947
3.) Rowand .945
4.) Cameron .943
5.) Beltran .925
Mclouth .867 (Dead Last)
THT OOZ
1. Beltran 111
2. Young 92
3. Mclouth 87
4. Victorino 83
5. Bourn 82
Stats Inc. Zone Rating, (Found at ESPN)
1.) Patterson .901
2.) Victorino .899
3.) Beltran .899
4.) Cameron .892
5.) Young .889
Mclouth .852 (2nd from the bottom)
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Young 34 9
Victorino 27 5
Ross 23 4
Beltran 25 -1
Rowand 23 -1
Cameron 20 1
Bourn 20 1
McLouth 7 -17 |
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
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trade him to Pitt for Capps and Sanchez.
Then trade Pena and Rauch for travis Buck.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Dangerfield wrote: |
trade him to Pitt for Capps and Sanchez.
Then trade Pena and Rauch for travis Buck. |
I think you left Duchscherer and Street out of that, add those 2 and we'll have a deal.
For Buck, I'd give up a bucket of seeds and an autographed team ball.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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We get T. Buck, I'll stop posting.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/fielding?groupId=8&season=2008&seasonType=2&split=84&sortColumn=assists
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/fielding?groupId=8&season=2008&seasonType=2&split=84&sortColumn=fieldingPct
why is everyone so down on McClouth?
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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Dangerfield wrote: |
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/fielding?groupId=8&season=2008&seasonType=2&split=84&sortColumn=assists
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/fielding?groupId=8&season=2008&seasonType=2&split=84&sortColumn=fieldingPct
why is everyone so down on McClouth? |
Because he cannot play CF?
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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wrong, he can play center, and thats a big lc there. Now, what he can't do is play lf and rf too, which with Bay and Nady next to him, didn't make his job easy.
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Dangerfield wrote: |
wrong, he can play center, and thats a big lc there. Now, what he can't do is play lf and rf too, which with Bay and Nady next to him, didn't make his job easy. |
He can play CF like Eric Byrnes can play CF. He looks like he's trying but he is just pretty bad out there.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Totally unjustified. The more advanced the metric, the dumber this choice looks:
http://www.azsnakepit.com/2008/11/6/655283/nate-mclouth-gets-a-gold-g
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Totally unjustified. The more advanced the metric, the dumber this choice looks:
http://www.azsnakepit.com/2008/11/6/655283/nate-mclouth-gets-a-gold-g |
agree, on the more advanced metric, which would be the ooz rating, is why he won it. Which is advanced metric that got him the award, and why your scale is off too.
McClouth, had no real help in lf/rf, he had a deserving year. Throw in the fact, with the staff threw out there too, he probably deserves the neck brace award as well. He also plays in one of the toughest home outfields too.
Young can track, and he improved immensely this year, but he's no Griffey Jr. or Edmunds yet, and probably won't be, but he plays a great cf. Its just not as Jeter gold glove, as the pundits are making it out to be, with McClouth nod.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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McCain, nearly pulled off the impossible, so I'll take that as a compliment.
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Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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He's a Maverick?
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: |
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Nah, that would be "Dangerfield:Basketball"... 
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Dangerfield wrote: |
AZ SnakePit wrote: |
Totally unjustified. The more advanced the metric, the dumber this choice looks:
http://www.azsnakepit.com/2008/11/6/655283/nate-mclouth-gets-a-gold-g |
agree, on the more advanced metric, which would be the ooz rating, is why he won it. Which is advanced metric that got him the award, and why your scale is off too.
McClouth, had no real help in lf/rf, he had a deserving year. Throw in the fact, with the staff threw out there too, he probably deserves the neck brace award as well. He also plays in one of the toughest home outfields too.
Young can track, and he improved immensely this year, but he's no Griffey Jr. or Edmunds yet, and probably won't be, but he plays a great cf. Its just not as Jeter gold glove, as the pundits are making it out to be, with McClouth nod.
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You realize Nate McClouth was the worst everyday center fielder in all of baseball, right?
Having Bay and Nady next to him has nothing to do with this. He was bad. His inability to cover ground in center wasn't a result of this problem, it was a huge part of the Pirates' problems in the outfield.
You fail.
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Dangerfield wrote: |
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McCain, nearly pulled off the impossible, so I'll take that as a compliment.
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If falling 110 ECs short of the presidency is nearly pulling off the impossible, then the 2008 D'backs narrowly missed being world champions.
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You realize, if he was our starting cf, we would of been in the playoffs right?
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You realize Nate McClouth was the worst everyday center fielder in all of baseball, right? |
You realize, if he was our starting cf, we would of been in the playoffs right?
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What does it matter? He's still the worst defensive centerfielder in the majors. If we had Manny instead of Eric Byrnes, we would've been in the playoffs too.
What a bullshit strawman argument. I think Dangerfield must be the child of Tommy LaSorda and David Littlefield.
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Your problem is Levski, you want to be me, even taking on the Rickles avatar, is a homage to Dangerfield. Rickles is funny, but he is no Dangerfield either. Too bad, you can't make points without always going to insults. You demean yourself, that way.
Now that said, Gizzard, made the point about McClouth, being the worst cf in all of baseball, which by ooz, proves he wasn't defensively, and by ooz numbers was one of the best. Add in his offense, and its not even close, to CY who the better cf is/was.
And if Byrnes was healthy, yes he too would of put the team in the playoffs ahead of CY.
Now, hopefully CY does better next year, but I'm still trading him.
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You don't think Tommy LaSorda would've been a good mother?
Listen, I'm sorry if I offended you. I never knew you disliked Littlefield.
But many (if not most) of your arguments are wrong, incoherent, or both.
McLouth is not a good defensive centerfielder. That's that. And his true talent isn't the one we all saw in the first half of the season. He's a 15-18 home run a year guy, with poor D in CF and not really enough bat to be a plus hitter in the corners. The Pirates would be smart to trade him away if someone bowled them over with an offer--except that they are the Pirates and don't really have anyone internally to replace him.
What he would've done in AZ is pointless. Irrelevant. Meaningless.
It does not change the fact that he was sub-par defensively in CF.
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levski wrote: |
You don't think Tommy LaSorda would've been a good mother?
Listen, I'm sorry if I offended you. I never knew you disliked Littlefield.
But many (if not most) of your arguments are wrong, incoherent, or both.
McLouth is not a good defensive centerfielder. That's that. And his true talent isn't the one we all saw in the first half of the season. He's a 15-18 home run a year guy, with poor D in CF and not really enough bat to be a plus hitter in the corners. The Pirates would be smart to trade him away if someone bowled them over with an offer--except that they are the Pirates and don't really have anyone internally to replace him.
What he would've done in AZ is pointless. Irrelevant. Meaningless.
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the fat bastard on WFAN in the afternoon would give his left nut for this guy to play center field for his beloved MFY......i would love to see pitts rob them of cano, kennedy and a ptnl (per what the fat man would give) and nate show he is not good in CF, and hear him say he was wrong again, like when he wanted bobby abreu (MFY fans cry he is soft in the outfield and takes to many walks leaving it up to the hitter behind him in big RBI spots)
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