...Headley was OK last year but giving a guy with a balky back a 4-5 year contract is asking for trouble...he's had exactly one good year in MLB (2012) and there's no reason to think he'll return to those type numbers. ...in fact, after the trade, if you compare Headley's numbers to the guy he was traded for, (Solarte) they were pretty much the same.
and here I thought all this time, with Sandgutval, there was a 4th emotion, a undeniable emotion for ordering a dozen pizzas before each game; another dozen or 2 after each game. I thought he bought stock in Papa Johns....I can't imagine the food and other things he put in his mouth. If only Pandagut, had a well disciplined Mgr. he would of never been allowed that much weight. ie, Billy Martin, Dick Williams, Earl Weaver, hell what would he of done, if Lombardi coached the Giants? Had he of lived of course. I smell disaster, or burning pizza's, one or the other, could be both..... I'd only of picked up PandaGut, if he committed to Weight Watchers, and nothing else to eat, for the duration of his contract. If that is a Beer Belly, then he must drink a Keg a dayi....or more...!
Last I checked none of us here even believe WAR IS NOT a necessary or pertinent Stat, at all....Nada...WAR is screwed up for a stat, means little to nothing, when you analyze it, or compare replacements.
saying that WAR describes, "how much more Player X is worth than a player that doesn't exist! ... This 'replacement player' who constitutes the very linchpin of the entire premise is mythical. There is nothing measurable or precise about his existence. Yet supposedly intelligent people have signed off on this utterly bogus piece of baseball idiocy ... WAR is nonsense."
http://www.forums.mlb.com/discussio...ut/ml-angels/134264.1?redirCnt=1&nav=messages In terms of WAR points, Donaldson gets 2.7 for his defense to go with 4.6 for his bat. Trout gets shortchanged with the glove, his minus-.02 rating dragging down his 7.0 offensive rating. Trout had an AL-best 10.9 WAR in 2012. His 8.9 WAR in 2013 led the league again and was matched by the Brewers' Carlos Gomez in the National League. Josh Donaldson, according to Baseball-Reference.com, is the highest-rated Wins Above Replacement position player in the Major Leagues. He is giving the A's 7.1 wins, a half-tick more than two-time reigning American League WAR kingpin Mike Trout, who is at 6.5 for the Angels. The overall WAR leader at the moment is the Dodgers' extraordinary Clayton Kershaw, who is delivering 7.3 wins above a normal pitcher. For more debate over the useless stat WAR see, the URL link below: http://www.fangraphs.com/community/could-it-be-time-to-update-wars-positional-adjustments/
________________________________ Exactly. The whole thing is based on a AAA-AAAA/back-up type mythical player. Why don't they just use ZERO as a baseline for each stat and take it from there. lol Ridiculous. Just compare the stats across the board of players with their peers from the same position and/or compare to league average for the position.
