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Adam Reynolds
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... There are a lot of great candidates that didn't even make your list. Joey Votto hit .322/.414/.567 (3rd behind Pujols and Fielder) and carried the Reds to a huge second half. Without him they are basically the Pirates. Other candidates are Cy Young favorite Carpenter, Sandoval (carried the Giants offense), and Either (carried the Dodgers, especially with Manny out). Ryan Howard as well. |
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MarkInDallas
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... Now say bucdaddy's comment again and end it with... "He is the Most Interesting Hitter In The World". :-) As an aside...What, no ex-Pirates on this list? I thought we could have almost put together a team with all the great players we traded away?! |
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w.k. kortas
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... So, speaking in very broad terms, the Bucs are only three or four players away from contention, assuming those players are Pujols clones. |
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Hamburger
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... I've always thought Chase Utley was the Joe Mauer of the National League. One of the league's best offensive forces coming from an uncommon position where he always plays great defense. Both have had teammates win MVP awards, but don't seem like they'll ever get one themselves. I think Mauer may have broken through this year by turning on the power and refusing to be ignored, but I'm not sure Utley ever can. Especially with Pujols in the same league. |
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Will P
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Pujols the Great Even more amazing about Albert Pujols is the fact that he's basically played the past two seasons with one arm. He just had surgery to take out a bunch of bonespurs, but that's nothing compared with what they were talking about doing, ie, Tommy John surgery. Pujols is certainly the best hitter I've ever seen. |
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Mr. Ando
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@bucdaddy If you walk every single time, wouldn't your OPS actually be 2.000? (ergo, 1.000 OPB + 1.000 SLG). |
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bucdaddy
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... Mr. Ando, I think you have to have official at-bats to count the base toward slug%. Walks don't count. |
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whygavs
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SLG That's right, Bucdaddy. Slugging percentage is total bases (which don't include walks) divided by at-bats, so the theoretical player that walks in 600 consecutive plate appearances (or just the guy that draws a walk in his first PA) officially has a line of .000/1.000/.000. |
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bucdaddy
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... The good news is, this was Pujols' age 29 season. He's pretty unlikely to get any better. |
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matt w
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ROBO-WALKER (aka Eddie Gaedel) Doesn't the guy who walks every PA have an undefined OPS? OBP = 1.000, SLG = 0/0 = undefined. In fact that's how Baseball Reference handles such lines. Of course real analysis teaches us that we ought to treat such questions by taking limits -- what is the limit of Pujols's OPS on a 3-0 count if you walk him n more times, as n goes to infinity? If my calculations are right, the limit goes to 1.000 + whatever his slugging percentage was to begin with. |
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