Comments on: Meet the hitters who are less productive than Dan Uggla

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:11:13 +0000

I picked up on the star thingies Kiwi.
For what it’s worth…I like them as our new “sarcasm illustrator.”
I am gonna’ start using them myself. Good work.

By: willclarkgameface

willclarkgameface — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:45:04 +0000

Uggla can’t concentrate on the field and therefore should not be allowed to be a starter. Fielding and baserunning errors aplenty and the dude can barely hit above the Mendoza line. That last sentence makes him sound like a failed September call-up. He needs to get his head together this fall and come back in the spring refreshed and ready to play. Otherwise, it has to be over for this guy.

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:53:12 +0000

Good move Kiwi. I like the star thingies better than smiley faces for sarcasm. Will watch for them in the future.

By: fuddpucker

fuddpucker — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:48:35 +0000

See what happens to average guys who get off the juice?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:17:20 +0000

The Feesh were going to pay him a huge amount of money too, just not enough for him, so whatever they realized, in the end they just plain lucked out.

By: bobulated

bobulated — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:29:53 +0000

Actually if you go by WAR it barely, barely did and lets say you’re a GM and have oh, I don’t know, over 100 years of baseball history to go by and realize that 99% of the guys that play this game start going downhill at age 30.
I’m not going by hindsight, as I said in my initial comment, I called this when the Braves made this deal.

By: kmgannon

kmgannon — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:58:51 +0000

Baseball is a game of inches. And of thousandth-place decimal points, too, apparently.

By: dondada10

dondada10 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:55:44 +0000

My bad.

By: randall351

randall351 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:14:05 +0000

Oh yeah, well Frenchy leads the league in Outfield assists.

-signed Dayton Moore.

By: braddavery

braddavery — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:02:05 +0000

What’s amusing is that the difference between Moderate and Great is .001

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:07:09 +0000

I didn’t realize you were the inspiration for Captain Hindsight. We all know he was a bad fielder. But his offense always offset that.

By: plmathfoto

plmathfoto — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:59:54 +0000

I guess Jason Bay doesn’t have 200 plate appearances during that time?

By: bobulated

bobulated — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:59:09 +0000

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize the Braves were paying him 13 million a year for what he did as a Marlin during his 20s in mostly meaningless games. My bad.

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:51:57 +0000

Uggla hit 263/349/488 in his 5 years in Miami. Averaged 30 doubles and 30 homers. That’s quality hitting. No one saw this kind of decline coming.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:35:38 +0000

Ohh come on guys. It was sarcasm. It even has the little star** thingies.

By: dondada10

dondada10 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:10:12 +0000

In a game without a clock, you can’t just constantly make outs.

Whatever respectability his OPS does have is driven by his homeruns. Swinging for the fences in every at-bat is a horrible approach, though.

By: bobulated

bobulated — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:56:45 +0000

And to compound they made this deal with a much cheaper, all-star player caliber 2B in Martin Prado enjoying his break out years already in their pocket. Just blows my mind that they thought an awful defensive player who always swings for the fences, is an out machine and won’t situational hit to save his life was the the answer.

By: bobulated

bobulated — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:51:37 +0000

This is why the Braves got him for pennies on the dollar; as incompetent as the Marlins front office can be at times, even they realized Uggla was one dimensional player who was a butcher at 2nd. When he’s not hitting home runs he has basically negative value and even when he is hitting and hitting for power, he has to hit way above league average to make up for his Michael Jackson impression at second. As a Braves fan I thought this was a terrible deal when they made it, then compounded it by giving him silly money and now surprise, surprise; his regression after age 30 has made him an anchor on their budget and team. Well played, Frank Wren, well played.

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:49:30 +0000

Thanks, dude. Pretty straight forward.

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:48:02 +0000

A horrible cold streak which is nearly half a season long?

By: biasedhomer

biasedhomer — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:39:57 +0000

Uggla is known for his hot and cold streaks. He is just having a horrible cold streak right now.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:33:34 +0000

From Bill James:

Category Classification OPS Range
A Great .9000 and Higher
B Moderate .8333 to .8999
C Above Average .7667 to .8333
D Average .7000 to .7666
E Below Average .6334 to .6999
F Poor .5667 to .6333
G Atrocious .5666 and Lower

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:31:35 +0000

You cant simply list guys with their OPS and state they are worse hitters than Uggla over that particular period. What about the number of HR and RBI they have during that time?? **

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:29:46 +0000

I know that hitting .152 is terrible; hitting .275 is good and .300 is terrific. But I dont know what is considered a bad/good/better/great OPS number is. Can someone help me out?