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Old 08-24-2022, 06:52 AM
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Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur have never been in my kitchen.
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23 years ago, Fernando Tatis hit 2 grand slams in ONE inning, off the SAME pitcher. Wow talk about taking one for the team !
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How much the modern day WAR statistic HATES Dante Bichette.

In 1995 Dante came a Tony Gwynn and a Mike Piazza away in the Batting race from winning the the Triple Crown in the National League, and still WAR only credited him with being worth 1.2 Wins above an average player (baseball reference).

Guy played 14 years, was a lifetime .300 hitter with plenty of pop, led the league in hits twice and slugging once. Defensively, he led his outfield position in assists, several times throughout his career (he must have been awful at all other phases of fielding ).

His lifetime WAR is less then Aaron Judges........in the current season.

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How much the modern day WAR statistic HATES Dante Bichette.

In 1995 Dante came a Tony Gwynn and a Mike Piazza away in the Batting race from winning the the Triple Crown in the National League, and still WAR only credited him with being worth 1.2 Wins above an average player (baseball reference).

Guy played 14 years, was a lifetime .300 hitter with plenty of pop, led the league in hits twice and slugging once. Defensively, he led his outfield position in assists, several times throughout his career (he must have been awful at all other phases of fielding ).

His lifetime WAR is less then Aaron Judges........in the current season.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...icheda01.shtml

In 1996 he had a 30/30 season, while batting .313, driving in 141 RBI's and scoring 114 runs.........and was credited with a WAR of 0.7.
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Don Drysdale is the 20th Century leader in All-Star appearances by a pitcher, and the all-time leader in innings pitched and strikeouts.
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Johnny Mize never hit between 30-39 home runs; always hit either 29 or fewer, or 40+.
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Teammates Yaz and Rico Petrocelli are two of the 4 players with 10 or more letters in their last names to hit 40 home runs in a season. Neither of them ever hit between 30 - 39 in a season.

EDIT: Like Mize mentioned above.
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How much the modern day WAR statistic HATES Dante Bichette.

In 1995 Dante came a Tony Gwynn and a Mike Piazza away in the Batting race from winning the the Triple Crown in the National League, and still WAR only credited him with being worth 1.2 Wins above an average player (baseball reference).

Guy played 14 years, was a lifetime .300 hitter with plenty of pop, led the league in hits twice and slugging once. Defensively, he led his outfield position in assists, several times throughout his career (he must have been awful at all other phases of fielding ).

His lifetime WAR is less then Aaron Judges........in the current season.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...icheda01.shtml
Crazy. In 1999, Bichette's dWar was -3.9 and he was tied for 2nd of all outfielders with 17 assists, but was 55th in putouts. I guess he just didn't cover a lot of ground?
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Crazy. In 1999, Bichette's dWar was -3.9 and he was tied for 2nd of all outfielders with 17 assists, but was 55th in putouts. I guess he just didn't cover a lot of ground?
Probably not. Whatever manager gave him the green light should've been shot. Pretty crappy base stealer too, despite that 30/30 season.
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WAR is a weird stat for some people. Right now it's favoring Tommy Edman on the Cardinals in weird ways. His slash line is 252/315/372 with a OPS+ of 98, yet he ranks Fourth among all NL position players wiith a WAR of 5.0, better than Austin Riley, who's slashing 285/351/557 with an OPS+ of 147.
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WAR is a weird stat for some people. Right now it's favoring Tommy Edman on the Cardinals in weird ways. His slash line is 252/315/372 with a OPS+ of 98, yet he ranks Fourth among all NL position players wiith a WAR of 5.0, better than Austin Riley, who's slashing 285/351/557 with an OPS+ of 147.
First off Edman's only .2 ahead of Riley so it's not like Riley is head-scratchingly low in WAR. Also he's a second baseman so his WAR is being generated by being compared to other second basemen, generally a weaker hitting bunch. Finally he's putting up a 2.8 D-WAR as compared to Riley's .3 so Riley, even by WAR is clearly the superior offensive player, but the totality has them about even in helping their team actually win games.
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