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Re: Player/Team Ratings are up!
Kotchman better than Gonzalez? No."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Player/Team Ratings are up!
where the heck is Ryan Braun? rookie of the year and would of hit 40+ hrs.
had he played the entire year, yet he isn't top 20?
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Re: Player/Team Ratings are up!
The one thing that annoys me about the team rankings is the same as it is every year -- the Indians get no respect. 7th is not bad, but are you kidding me...this team was within one win of going to the World Series. That means AT LEAST top 5 to me...Comment
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I agree. There is no way that the Twins deserve to be a top 8 team. We lost two of our best players and didn't get much back in terms of immediate help to replace either. We have 6 players on the entire list. Something doesn't seem right to me.Comment
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What you've said makes total sense. But here's the big problem with it...
The game (at least last year) doesn't take this into account whatsoever in its trade logic. The ONLY thing that matters in trades is the overall number, not how the player came to that number based on all their attributes, not team needs, not current performance, age, nothing. So, in your example above, if I have the utility guy/pinch runner on my team, I can trade him for the stud DH with no problems at all. THAT is my issue with the ratings and why people make such a big deal about them. This is the NUMBER ONE thing I hope they fix in 2K8.
Let's go one step further and look at it with an in-game example using the ratings in that article. Let's say I'm the Giants. I have Ray Durham (with his .218 AVG and horrible all-around performance last year). In real life, the Giants have not been able to trade Ray Durham for a bag of peanuts. But in the game (2K7 anyway), I could just go ahead and trade Durham away for, say, Jeff Francoeur, because they have the same overall rating of an 82.
Now THAT will make me dislike a baseball game faster than anything else. I had to spend countless hours fixing the rosters last year, and if I have to do it again, I don't know if I'll bother.Comment
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Re: Player/Team Ratings are up!
How are the twins ranked above the cubs???
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Re: Player/Team Ratings are up!
Since they are young players who just last year finally have matured and had a chance to play fully I won't use career numbers. Kotchman I believe will improve more. He is one of the rare players that actually walks more than he strikes out. Now that doesn't mean much towards scoring runs, but its an excellent indicator of discipline and usually players who walk more than they strike out understand the strike zone incredibly well and are usually the last players you want to write off as flukes... Usually.
Gonzalez
.282/.347/.502
Kotchman
.296/.372/.467
15 points of OBP is roughly equivalent to about 23 points of slugging if you want to weight it. So offensively they are very similar. If Kotchman wasn't hit in the head when sliding into second by a pick off, and needed to get stitches in his head after that, or if he didn't miss two stints due to HBP's, he probably would have done even better. He had a 2 week slump coming back from his concussion.
Plus Kotchman was rated the 2nd best defensive first baseman in the Fielding Bible. He got 2nd place votes from Bill James (the greatest person to ever live) and Rob Neyer.
I have a near obsession with Kotchman though and am a very critical pessimistic Angel fan, Kotchman is the only guy that I absolutely love on that whole team besides Lackey and Escobar. Not for no reason though, I've been following him for like 5 years and for good reason, the guy has an amazing understand for the strike zone, has a nice swing, and is the next Todd Helton with the glove.Comment
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these ratings are an absolute joke...jeff Kent ranked as the #2 second baseman. Carlos Delgado an 88...hahaha, did these guy watch any baseball last year??
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Joe Mauer is the top ranked catcher??? Slappy Mauer?????
And the Twinks are rated 8th overall??
Must be pre-Santana-trade rankings.Comment
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They need to base veteran player ratings on the last year or two, and young player ratings need to be accounted for slight improvements. Basing both 23 year olds and 37 year olds on a 3 year history is not accurate. They could even use PECOTA or DIPS projections.Comment
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How is pujol's 100 over all yet Arod isnt?Comment
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