Discussion: Mike Rizzo's Team-Building Strategy
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... interesting thoughts in the wake of yesterday's deal between the Nationals and Pirates. He argues that this trade was an indication GM Mike Rizzo's team-building strategy, "which favors reliability over high-yield potential, a counter to predecessor Jim Bowden." Harlan continues, "The trade, too, commences Washington's attempt to restock a malformed roster on which few outfielders can catch and few relievers can hold leads." Meanwhile, Dave Cameron at Fangraphs argues that Nyjer Morgan might be more valuable than ...
Daily Rubbish: July 1, 2009
Sports Rubbish —
Video of the Day: Happy Canada Day!
Today’s Links:
Bus crash hero had lost brother in accident [The Star]
The Three Mikes: After The Crowds Go Quiet [Fansided]
Morgan = Dunn [Fangraphs]
5 reasons MLB should show people running onto the field [Hugging Harold Reynolds]
Top Ten Fictional Chefs [Gunaxin]
Questionable Poses: Jason Campbell Spends A Day At Sea World [No Guts No Glory ...
Pelfrey Applesauce - Franco knows leadership, obnoxious Met fans, Indian-born pitchers
Amazin' Avenue —
... DJ Wabick, and Roy Merritt for making the Eastern League All Star team.
For whatever an online poll from Baltimore is worth, we are the most obnoxious fans in baseball. I'm guessing the Metsblog commenters are mainly responsible for this.
Around the NL East
Nats GM Mike Rizzo made room for Nyjer Morgan by sending Elijah Dukes to triple-A Syracuse.
FanGraphs says that the Nats just acquired a player who is as good as Adam Dunn.
What to do with Nick Johnson?
Marlin starter ...
Defensive value
Redleg Nation —
... it sure seems to me that a screaming line drive would be much harder to reach than a can of corn flyball…but, they seem to be valued the same. (I still remember Marty Brennaman on the radio warning the listeners about his fear for the infielders and their families as Tom Browning was nearing the end of his career and line drives were screaming off the bats from opposing hitters…)
Anyway, here’s a link to the article comparing Dunn to Morgan:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/morgan-dunn
And, here’s a link to an article ...
Game 78: Let’s sweep again
River Avenue Blues —
... One thing I’ve been going over in my head over the past two days is the Mariner’s defense. This was spurred by a post by Dave Cameron at FanGraphs. Dave, you might know, writes ...
Weekly Rundown: Tony Gwynn, Haywood, Rick Maese
Krem's Sports Blog —
... Dave Cameron believes the Nationals won their trade with the Pirates that had them sending Lastings Milledge and Joel Hanrahan to Pittsburgh in exchange for Nyjer Morgan and Sean Burnett. He highlights Morgan's solid outfield defense as a large factor. [FanGraphs] ...
To Trade or Not to Trade?
Flushing Faithful —
... Now, people smarter than I have argued that by some measures, Nyjer Morgan = Adam Dunn. I’m nowhere near SABRific enough to judge that argument. But Adam Dunn has the potential to capture casual D.C. sports fans in a way hardly anyone else on that roster does. From that standpoint, not trading Adam Dunn means a lot more than acquiring Nyjer Morgan. ...
Analysis of a Fire Sale: The Pittsbugh Pirates, Pt.1
Beyond the Box Score —
... There was a whole lot of debate about whether Nyjer Morgan's value based on this season's amazing defensive exploits was accurate and projectable. One such long-winded debate could be seen here at FanGraphs. With so much of his value tied to his defense and such small sample sizes in Morgan's career so far, it's difficult to do much of a projection analysis without some heavier regression. Giving him a 10% chance to remain at his 28.2 UZR/150 level, a 20% chance for him to return to a +15 level, 20% chance of him being a +10 outfielder, and a 50% chance of him becoming a +5 ...
Nyjer Morgan and Evaluating Speedsters
Roto Savants —
... So I have been trying to find a match to Nyjer Morgan for a while now. It is good to compare players especially when evaluating your team. At the time of the Nationals-Pirates trade FanGraphs compared his relative value, offense and defense, to Adam Dunn. In trying to find the type of speed player we have seen I dug a little deeper. ...
How much do you really value defense?
The Hardball Times —
... the SS is playing in position A and sometimes in position B because of the batter, pitcher, base runners and outs. Lot and lots of potential measurement error. So that ball that Yuni fielded may have been an easy chopper a little towards the SS side, even though it went into the “hard hit ball up the middle” bucket which is only fielded 20% of the time on the average by all SS.
I think this question is ultimately very similar to the post Dave Cameron made at Fangraphs when he compared Adam Dunn to Nyjer Morgan. However, ...
