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Originally Posted by Emin3mShady07
I really enjoy the part when Moorad says Dunn, doesn't fit for us going forward...Amazing, a team with very little outfield depth and most of the guys they do have are offensively challenged, says that Adam Dunn doesn't fit in their plan. Their plan must be to lose  |
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Originally Posted by Emin3mShady07
Dunn certainly made the Dbacks a better team, so its not his fault that Arizona lost. He had an OPS+ of 127 with Arizona along with a .417 OBP. That is pretty darn good, certainly an upgrade over Eric Byrnes and Chad Tracy.
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there's three reasons why i can understand why they wouldn't want dunn back:
1) mark reynolds was 1st, chris young 6th and adam dunn 7th in k's in all of mlb and as a team the only offense that had more k's was floridas which also didn't make the playoffs.
2)arizona also tied for the 5th most errors in all of mlb. the teams with more errors didn't make the playoffs either.
dunn was only there 2 months so if they had him back for a full season it definitely wouldn't help those team rankings. ya can't say that stuff doesn't matter when it adds up THAT much. tracy hasn't played the outfield in a few years but...
3) "a team with very little outfield depth and most of the guys they do have are offensively challenged"?? i beg to differ. they don't need dunn. connor jackson played half of '08 in the outfield and they'll have byrnes, cy, and super stud justin upton back. i like jay bruce but he's only one player. maybe someday our outfield can rival theirs but at this moment i'd take that outfield (and their ss too). collectively you have a decent ba, power, speed, not too many k's, and better than average defense. also jackson and cy can still improve and upton could rival bruce as the best NL outfielders over the next 5 years.
in left jackson had only 3 errors in 77 games and he has k'd only 12.8% of the time in 1525 mlb abs). byrnes is also better (only 20 errors in 820 mlb games, 17% k's in 2931 mlb abs). dunn has 75 errors in 1099 games and has k'd 32.4% of his 3871 career mlb abs. so they'll have less power in '09 but less k's and better defense too.
there are alot of stats (like obp and ops) that are valuable but imo it's also kinda important for a player to have skills that complement the rest of the team and for there to be a need for the player. neither is the case with dunn and arizona.