Comments on: Dunn, Granderson have worst ever 40-homer seasons

By: bozosforall

bozosforall — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:31:12 +0000

Eat it, stat geek.

By: forsch31

forsch31 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:43:20 +0000

That’s team average RISP, which is always going to equal good individual average RISP (see team ERA compared to individual ERA). And for a guy with 106 RBIs, a “league average” RISP is damning evidence that its feast or famine.

By: bozosforall

bozosforall — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:32:59 +0000

The MLB average with RISP is .247′ which makes Granderson’s slightly above average in that regard. I’ll still take his RBIs, no matter how they were gotten over some slap singles hitter.

By: jayscarpa

jayscarpa — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:06:22 +0000

Granderson has regressed again this year. From August of 2010 and all of 2011 he was terrific hitting lefties. He was a real hitter. It’s ironic when says that he’s not a home run hitter and then goes out and hits like Dave Kingman. And he’s not even that good in CF.

The Yankees have a real decision – reup @ $15 million or buy out @ $2million. I think they can do better with that amount of money.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:41:30 +0000

Toronto has great luck with players named “Batista/Bautista.”

I’d draft any guy in Central/South America with that surname if I was them.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:36:09 +0000

Dan Johnson better have bought Dunn dinner. Dunn sitting got Johnson the AB’s to hit 3 jacks. Those three jacks might land him a contract next year as a pinch hitter rather than a AAA deal. In the very least, it was his one shinning moment of the season.

By: hisgirlgotburrelled

hisgirlgotburrelled — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:22:09 +0000

Dunn sat out last night just to avoid breaking the record. Own it, Dunn!

By: nbjays

nbjays — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:30:21 +0000

3 trick pony if you count striking out as a trick

By: jlovenotjlo

jlovenotjlo — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:11:27 +0000

2 trick pony. He led the MLB in walks.

By: thenoblefacehumper

thenoblefacehumper — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:25:06 +0000

Yes, cause us stat geeks sure do LOVE batting average!

By: forsch31

forsch31 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:05:02 +0000

The problem is that his run production (106 RBIs) comes mostly from his home runs, which occurred 41 times out of 500+ at bats. Which is nice, if you’re grouping shots. If you’re trying to win games, you want a guy you can count on who can hit the ball a bit more consistently, especially with runners in scoring position (Ganderson’s RISP average is .250).

By: cackalackyank

cackalackyank — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:45:35 +0000

Umm, sorry have to disagree. I will take the position that one of the main reasons the AL east ever got close was because of the runs that Granderson, in particular, did NOT produce. The epic strike out ratio and almost perverse ability to hit solo homers was at the core of the Yankees RISP hitting woes. I will take an aging, MOTIVATED, contact hitter over a late model windmill just about every day…not mentioning any names here *cough* Ichiro *cough*. Now I am not saying he was the only problem …but other guys that did not generate their norm in runs are A. getting older and B. missing a lot of AB’s due to being on the DL. Granderson…not so much.

By: bozosforall

bozosforall — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:14:26 +0000

I’ll take the run production of Granderson over any of those “hitters for average” any day. You stat geeks can eat it.

By: vincentbojackson

vincentbojackson — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:56:51 +0000

Dunn has been a one trick pony his whole career. The White Sox seemed to ignore this and blindly continued to send him out there night after night. It’s a big reason they’ll be watching the postseason instead of playing in it.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:53:23 +0000

Aw shucks Matthew. I will still take the 43 home runs he contributed to my fantasy team.