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Worth The Wait
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Oklahoma City
Posts: 4,111
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Dusty "Respects" Junior, But Disrespects Logic, Reason, and Numbers...
I did this last year, but decided to go into more detail this season.
Just how bad of a mistake is Dusty making by continuing to hit Junior 3rd out of "respect?" Well, the following numbers are quite staggering. I took all National League teams #3 hitters-- this was determined by the player on each team with the most AB's at that slot. I then ranked them 1-16 in 5 different categories (Avg, HR, RBI, OBP, SLG) Here are the rankings in each category....at the end, I then added up each category-- the player with the lowest score was ranked "highest," and on down the list. Avg. 1. Chipper 2. Pujols 3. Berkman 4. Holliday 5. Guzman 6. Lee 7. Martin 8. Hudson 9. Utley 10. Winn 11. Wright 12. Bay 13. Braun (tie) Gonzalez 15. Cantu 16. Junior As a point of reference Cantu is hitting .283, Junior is hitting .240 HR 1. Utley 2. Berkman (tie) Gonzalez 4. Braun 5. Chipper 6. Pujols (tie) Bay 8. Wright 9. Lee (tie) Cantu 11. Holliday 12. Junior 13. Martin 14. Hudson 15. Winn (tie) Guzman RBI 1. Gonzalez 2. Berkman 3. Utley 4. Wright 5. Braun 6. Lee 7. Chipper 8. Holliday (tie) Cantu 10. Pujols 11. Bay 12. Martin 13. Junior 14. Hudson 15. Winn 16. Guzman OBP 1. Chipper 2. Pujols 3. Berkman 4. Holliday 5. Martin 6. Bay 7. Wright 8. Utley 9. Lee 10. Hudson 11. Winn 12. Gonzalez 13. Junior 14. Guzman 15. Cantu 16. Braun SLG 1. Berkman 2. Chipper 3. Pujols 4. Utley 5. Holliday 6. Braun 7. Bay 8. Gonzalez 9. Lee 10. Wright 11. Cantu 12. Hudson 13. Martin 14. Guzman 15. Winn 16. Junior Yep, Ken Griffey Junior is being out-slugged by Christian Guzman, Russell Martin, and Randy Winn Totals: 1. Berkman (11) 2. Chipper (16) 3. Pujols (23) 4. Utley (25) 5. Holliday (32) 6. Gonzalez (36) 7. Lee (39) 8. Wright (40) 9. Bay (43) 10. Braun (44) 11. Martin (50) 12. Hudson (58) (tie) Cantu (58) 14. Guzman (64) 15. Winn (66) 16. Junior (70) Now, THAT is respect!! |
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