baseballprospectus.com - 7/1/2008
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What is it that`s changed for Jacoby Ellsbury?
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Wither Jacoby Ellsbury?
THE FANTASY BASEBALL GENERALS —
His surprising season is starting to hit a downturn. Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus wrote a great piece on him , and spurred me to take a deeper look. The more I read in the fantasy community the more I am convinced that Joe is perhaps the best writer in the industry. It is not command of statistics nor is it great ability to conjure up flowery prose that separates him from the crowd, but great insight into the pertinent issues. A case in point is his discussion of Jacoby Ellsbury, who has been the backbone of many a surprising fantasy team’s fast start. In the preseason a prominent fantasy analyst predicted that Ellsbury might hit 12-15 ...
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Empyreal Environs —
... Yesterday Joe Sheehan of Baseball Prospectus (subscription required) posted an analysis of Jacoby Ellsbury’s career arc thus far and revealed the center fielder’s troubling trend towards increasing strikeout rates with each promotion. Much like Dennis Eckersley’s analysis in his NESN, both observers noted that Ellsbury hasn’t sustained the power that he flashed when he first got on the big league squad nor has he got on base enough to use what appears to be his best offensive asset, his speed. The comparisons to Johnny Damon seem overly optimistic given ...
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