Brief explanation of Win Shares

How Win Shares are calculated

Win Shares book

As to your other question, Perry’s ‘78 season netted 18 Win Shares, while RJ’s ‘76 netted… hmm, I’m very glad you asked this question because I’ve made an error. Jones had 21 Win Shares that season. Thanks for the catch!

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Please help me understand this statistic.
How does Kevin Brown, Jake Peavy, and Dave Roberts merit 20 game Win Shares with none of them eclipsing the actual 20 wins. Where’s Gaylord Perry’ 21-6 record of ‘78, and Randy Jones’ 22-14 Cy Young season of ‘76?

I’m with GY on not wanting to put Antonelli in position to fail, while simultaneously gaining service time which will hasten his expensive years. People should be wary of any financial information that any baseball team chooses to share, but whatever the underlying facts, the front office may be operating on the cheap for a while. If that’s so they need to make sure that a prospect’s first four years coincide with the highest possible production. That might mean keeping Antonelli in AAA almost all year no matter how well he does.

But I’m with Steve on using Denker instead of Eckstein to accomplish that. It’s not making me bang my head on the desk, and there may be some other benefits from Eckstein vs. Denker or LRod. If this is a year in which they’ll move pitchers, a better defense behind them might possibly increase their value. A .290 average from Gritty McGritserstein might net a couple of interesting prospects mid-year. Still, they had a young second baseman in Denker who now has nowhere to play and who could turn into somebody they might want to keep around for a few years. That would seem to be more valuable to a front office laboring under financial restrictions.

I say if we are going to lose, lose with the future, not a bunch of guys who won’t be here in 2010.

#2@Mike: Actually, I am. When was the last time we had a middle infielder with on-base skills? Mark Loretta in ‘05? A career .351 OBP for $850k is looking pretty good right now from where I sit.

It seems like the Padres just pick a handful of players and throw them against the wall to see which ones are al dente.

Meanwhile, the lack of starting pitching is not addressed at all and we are 30 days to reporting. As it stands today, Luis Rodriguez is the starting SS and The Eck at 2B. Whoopee!

I hope Antonelli will have a good Spring Training and April in AAA just so he’ll push The Eck off to the bench/platoon SS.

Antonelli is the future and he just need some seasoning at AAA. I hope he’ll arrive sooner than June.