Roy Halladay: “I’d rather hit in the National League than face Jeter, A Rod, Matsui, and Teixeira”

Left field is generally considered a strong offensive position, but looking at the AL LF this year I’m left fairly unimpressed.

Without looking at all the other outfielders, I’m thinking relative to CF and RF, LF offense is relatively better. Just seems to be a down year? Or maybe I should wait until you cover the rest of the outfield.

Johnny is generally good at baseball. But I have a feeling that he has slipped some defensively.

Wow, -9 for Bay.  Has his defense - park neutral - really already cost the Sox a game?  Does he really just suck that much?  He’s seemed competent enough out there.

Damon joins Juan Rivera and Denard Span as players who were seemingly denied a spot on the All Star team, which is fine. After all, squeezing in a sixth Red Sock is important.  I kid.  Bay’s probably not really a -12 defender, UZR says -9 and it supposedly adjusts for Fenway.  So that makes him a +18, which is still worse than Rivera and Damon, and ties him with Span.  Maybe I shouldn’t kid.  Maybe I should be outraged.

UZR also has Damon as a -9.4 defender so that knocks him down to a 14.5 overall.

Damon joins Juan Rivera and Denard Span as players who were seemingly denied a spot on the All Star team, which is fine. After all, squeezing in a sixth Red Sock is important.  I kid.

In the words of Maximus: “The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.”

It is just not possible to be “... as unimpressed as when I watch the Yankees play the Angels”. Just not.

I thought Ryan Freel was a Royal.

So… I talked up David DeJesus a few threads ago. It seems that the Yankees are going to have a helluva time trying to replace Damon next year. I wouldn’t mind seeing TBR not pick up Crawford’s option and Cashman going all in on him. Or maybe Holliday’s stock will be down .... nevermind, that’s not happening with Boras. What to do, what to do.

Isn’t Adam Lind a LF?

I thought Ryan Freel was a Royal.

Yeah, he is now.  He got released by Baltimore around the time I pulled the stats.

Isn’t Adam Lind a LF?

Looks like he’s still got more PT at DH so he’s considered a DH for now (and the top ranked one so far this year, although I’ll post the list later).

If Damon would accept a one year deal, I wouldn’t mind having him back.

Is there a reason you used ZR as opposed to UZR? I’m not that informed on Dfensive metrics (other then that they are questionable), but I thought UZR was considered a ‘more accurate’ stat. Are there other defensive stats that should be used? How about an average of all of them?

Is there a reason you used ZR as opposed to UZR? I’m not that informed on Dfensive metrics (other then that they are questionable), but I thought UZR was considered a ‘more accurate’ stat. Are there other defensive stats that should be used? How about an average of all of them?

I have been trying to use an average of ZR and UZR most of the time.  The reason I used just ZR here is that it was only being updated weekly and I wanted to use something more current.  It looks like they may be updating it more frequently now although I’m not certain.

Ryan Freel has already been traded twice this year I believe.

Orioles to Cubs to Royals I think.

I would like Carl Crawford in our LF a lot more than Jason Bay or Matt Holliday