The Bailey love is getting out of hand on this forum.
The Bailey love is getting out of hand on this forum.
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Actually, it's the reverse.
Parks with small outfields supress BA, because the outfielders have less ground to cover, making it harder for line drives to fall in. Most of the parks out west are BA hitters dreams, as flares drop into the vast outfield spaces regularly.
The only advantage Pegan has between the parks in which they play is foul territory, but that's a very small advantage.
And Pegan wasn't a regular in 2009. Only 88 games.
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If Bailey was included, and Stubbs, that would at least be payroll neutral. However, I'd expect some more coming back from Boston because Ellsbury is a large injury risk. I looked at Lars Anderson for LF, Kalish for OF help, both LHB, but have no idea if they're really any good. Bryce Brentz has some contact issues. I don't know, just not seeing it.
I'm not super keen on Bailey for Ellsbury, based on ages, dollars, etc.
It just seems like a lot of people aren't willing to part with him for anything short of Felix Hernandez or Mike Trout.
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What is the story behind the Punto trade.. do you mean the giant salary dump to LA, or is there more to it than that.
Just seems that they have a bizzare plan.. Sign Gomes for LF. Sign Victorino, then trade one year of Ellsbury for an young near ace pitcher.. Asking for Latos is just plain ludicrous. Now granted, this is just rumors, maybe they didn't really ask for that much.
In the end, Ellsbury (if traded) is going to get less return than Span did. Same with Choo (I know the Indians are holding out for a lot).
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Here's the park factors for 2012 - http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/parkfac...ort/hitsFactor. Fenway ranks second for hits. It is famously great for BA. It turned Pete Runnels into a two-time batting champion. Fenway has been a BA paradise for more than a century. I don't care what your theories are about what maybe makes a good BA park, Fenway is the gold standard.
And AT&T and Citi Field bring up the rear of the pack.
If you put Pagan's numbers through a stats neutralizer (e.g. adjust him as if his career had been played for the 2012 Red Sox) you get a career .298/.351/.448 slash line. Ellsbury is .297/.349/.442. It's the exact same tool set and an almost identical performance. They might as well be the same human.
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I wouldn't go that far, but they could have the same dad.
All park factors are for every hitter, so they are rather meaningless when appllied to individual hitters. Every hitter is going to react differently to every park. Sure lots of right handed power hitter get lots of flyballs turned into hits because of the green monster, but a slap hitter like Pegan probably won't.
Sure, a few lefites with great bat control like Runnels or Boggs can master the uniqueness of Femway, but Pegan ain't one of them. A slap hitter like Pegan is going to benefit more from a big ballpark than from a small one like Fenway. I'm pretty sure that if you put Pegan in Fenway, his BA would go down.
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Yes, the giant salary dump that gave them all this freedom to overpay Napoli, Victorino, and anyone else who will take a less than 4 year deal. And, their plan does seem bizarre, but I think they want to avoid any more big long term contracts unless it's for the absolute perfect player for them, and I don't see that guy out there right now. And I also believe they don't want to trade prospects or forfeit draft picks, but they can't go into 2013 with a $90M payroll, either. So, they overpay some decent players on shorter deals and see what they can do with that. I also agree with you about Ellsbury's trade value, which is why I don't expect him to be traded.
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