I am interested in how these rankings are changing and how they project, which prompts two suggestions:
1. Could these update posts also link back to the previous update posts, just for convenience.
2. What really matters is how these players will project by the end of the year. As a separate analysis, it would be interesting to see how they would rank projected to the end of the season.
I’ll fix that for the next set. It’s likely the the list of free agents in the sheet had him listed differently (Dave vs. David) from the name and it didn’t match the two up. Thank you.
This can’t be accurate. And if it is, any ranking system that ranks Jose Reyes a “Class B” Free Agent behind the likes of Scott Rolen, Casey Blake, Orlando Cabrera, Ryan Theriot, Luis Castillo, David Eckstein, Chipper Jones, Casey McGehee and Chase Headley is not only seriously flawed, but high comedy. and that’s only the National Leaguers that are ranked ahead of Reyes.
Marco Scutaro gets an A classification and scores far higher than Reyes. No one can tell me that given the choice of Reyes or Scutaro that the Red Sox wouldn’t have snagged Reyes faster than the time it takes Reyes to steal second base.
When healthy, which he is, Reyes is not only one of the best Infielders in baseball, he’s one of the best players in baseball.
I realize this is only for the purposes of awarding compensation picks, but shouldn’t the rankings have a better relation to reality than having someone like Reyes second to last among Class B Free Agents, just ahead of Cristian Guzman and slightly behind Skip Schumaker.
I realize Reyes missed most of last year. But if he’s healthy heading in a free agent walk year, producing like he produces . . . why should the team that loses a player of that caliber be penalized with a Class B ranking. To me that’s a flaw in the ranking.
That said, you have some yeoman’s work in assembling all this info!
Thanks again,
John
Zack23
“why should the team that loses a player of that caliber”
And why should a team get a top draft pick for a player who missed an entire season due to injury?
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bluejaysstatsgeek
I love these. Thanks for your work.
I am interested in how these rankings are changing and how they project, which prompts two suggestions:
1. Could these update posts also link back to the previous update posts, just for convenience.
2. What really matters is how these players will project by the end of the year. As a separate analysis, it would be interesting to see how they would rank projected to the end of the season.
Eddie Bajek
If you have a way to project playing time, performance, and who will be on the roster August 31, I’ll gladly work with you to develop projections
Eddie Bajek
And incorporate it into a code that runs in five minutes.
daveineg
Dave Bush should be in bold.
Eddie Bajek
I’ll fix that for the next set. It’s likely the the list of free agents in the sheet had him listed differently (Dave vs. David) from the name and it didn’t match the two up. Thank you.
mike ferrel
Brian Wilson?
Eddie Bajek
Is Brian Wilson missing? If so, I know the error. That came up all the time last year, but I thought I had it fixed. I can address tonight.
stadds
Jason Frasor now profiles as an A. Jays will certainly have some options this week…
samags
All the links go to AL catchers.
Eddie Bajek
Check the tabs on the bottom.
JBL
This can’t be accurate. And if it is, any ranking system that ranks Jose Reyes a “Class B” Free Agent behind the likes of Scott Rolen, Casey Blake, Orlando Cabrera, Ryan Theriot, Luis Castillo, David Eckstein, Chipper Jones, Casey McGehee and Chase Headley is not only seriously flawed, but high comedy. and that’s only the National Leaguers that are ranked ahead of Reyes.
Marco Scutaro gets an A classification and scores far higher than Reyes. No one can tell me that given the choice of Reyes or Scutaro that the Red Sox wouldn’t have snagged Reyes faster than the time it takes Reyes to steal second base.
When healthy, which he is, Reyes is not only one of the best Infielders in baseball, he’s one of the best players in baseball.
I realize this is only for the purposes of awarding compensation picks, but shouldn’t the rankings have a better relation to reality than having someone like Reyes second to last among Class B Free Agents, just ahead of Cristian Guzman and slightly behind Skip Schumaker.
Talk about absurd!
Eddie Bajek
He missed most of last year.
JBL
Ed, thanks for the reply.
I realize Reyes missed most of last year. But if he’s healthy heading in a free agent walk year, producing like he produces . . . why should the team that loses a player of that caliber be penalized with a Class B ranking. To me that’s a flaw in the ranking.
That said, you have some yeoman’s work in assembling all this info!
Thanks again,
John
Zack23
“why should the team that loses a player of that caliber”
And why should a team get a top draft pick for a player who missed an entire season due to injury?