Comments on: Faulty Radar, and Performance by Position

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:44:30 +0000

“It makes no more sense now to call Antonelli a bust based on his 2008 performance than it did last year to anoint him a future star based on his 2007 performance. The truth remains somewhere in the middle, although we don’t know exactly where.”

Great point, Geoff, and one I had begun to overlook after Matt’s poor showing at Portland this year. It’s good to remember he still has potential to develop and I wish him all the best next season, of course.

It really does boggle to see how well CF has ended up this year, and I never would have thought it would look that much better than Cameron’s performance (although some of that can also be due to league fluctuations, right? Because the split is measuring the CF’s performance versus the league for that year, correct?) I’d still rather have him in CF though due to his D and Petco’s HUGE tracts of land!

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By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:19:31 +0000

Cool table, Geoff. Neat to look at the trends and remember the glory days of Loretta and Bard/Piazza and even Bowen being above average for a catcher. One question though: is sOPS+ adjusted for park?

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By: Steve C

Steve C — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:13:34 +0000

I'm not too surprised that CF was one of the most productive position this year, Hairston got off to a hot start, Edmonds only had 102 PA’s, Gerut had a great year and then when he went down Venable came up and got off to a hot start. What does surprise me is that 3B is not closer to 100 and 2B is so low, I figured E. Gon’s run would have pulled those numbers up a little more.

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By: JP

JP — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:49:19 +0000

At the very least, our utility infielder situation has somewhat stabilized. Edgar Gonzalez may be a below average defender (did anyone see that pop fly he botched last night ?) but the guy can hit and will be a valuable bat off the bench in 2009. Luis Rodriguez has been surprisingly adequate as an everyday player for the last 45 days or so and is a much better option as a backup then a Manny Alexander or Oscar Robles. In addition, both can play all of the infield positions. Some fans and a few SD baseball writers pointed to the off season non signing of Geoff Blum as a mistake but after seeing what LRod and Egon have done for good stretches of the season, I don't believe this to be the case.

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