friarforecast.com - 1/25/2008
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Justin Inaz over at On Baseball and the Reds (by the way, easily one of my favorite non-Padre team blogs) recently made a neat post about the Reds’ arbitration eligible players. Basically, here’s what you do. Find out how many wins above replacement the player is. Then find out how much players generally make in the arbitration year in question. After that, use Tango’s salary scale to see you ...
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Ducksnorts —
... arbitration case and offers some thoughts on what Greene might be worth. ...
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Sdpads1 - The #1 Padre site 60% of the time, every time —
... Geoff over at Ducksnorts is doing a great series where he is getting “Our Best Guess for ‘08″ for all the players. I’m curious to see if us fans who watch this team day in and day out can out predict the experts.
MB over at Friar Forecast has been doing some projections as well (Projections: Starting Pitchers) and appears to be infatuated with Khalil Greene lately that you can see….
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And lastly Corey over at Rich Folkers makes a bold prediction ...
Padres avoid arbitration with Greene
Friar Forecast —
... Anyway, I’ve already attempted to calculate Greene’s value right here. I’ve got him at about 3 wins above replacement, which includes offense, fielding, and a positional adjustment. It’s merely a rough approximation, but it should be relatively close to his actual value, depending on what fieldig metric you use and how you regress to the mean. (of course, more detailed projections could do a better job) ...
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