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Tale Of The Tape: Jose Reyes & Carl Crawford

By Ben Nicholson-Smith | July 4, 2011 at 1:52pm CDT

Fred Wilpon has made it clear that he doesn’t think Jose Reyes is worth $142MM. But there are 29 other owners in baseball and some of them might be happy to offer Reyes the Carl Crawford-esque contract that Wilpon believes his shortstop wants.

Jose Reyes

“He’s had everything wrong with him,” Wilpon told the New Yorker in April. “He won’t get it."

Wilpon has a point. Reyes, who is now sidelined with an apparently minor hamstring issue, has had a variety of injuries over the years. He missed time with a thyroid problem last year, tore his hamstring in 2009 and hit the disabled list with ankle, fibula and hamstring problems earlier in his career, in ’03-’04. 

Yet Reyes remains on a pace to surpass 150 games played for the fifth time in seven years and his numbers are impressive despite the time he has missed. As the table below shows, Reyes’ career numbers are strikingly similar to the ones Crawford had when he hit free agency last offseason and Reyes could have a more impressive walk year in 2011 than the one Crawford had a year ago.

Reyes is just 28, a year younger than Crawford was when he hit free agency. Quality shortstops are harder to find than quality left fielders, which provides Reyes with additional leverage. However, Crawford has more home run power, fewer injury issues and, as a result of his health, higher career totals in most counting stats.

Reyes vs. Crawford

Is $142MM too much of a commitment for a player who has struggled to stay on the field? Possibly, but since Crawford signed for that much, Reyes' representatives at Peter Greenberg Sports will presumably argue that their client deserves a similar or superior deal. After all, Reyes is younger, plays a more challenging position and has similarly impressive statistics. There seems to be a good chance that some team will prove Wilpon wrong this offseason and, ironically, it might even be the Mets.

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5 Comments

  1. Lunchbox45

    14 years ago

    .031 obp is pretty significant over the course of a career bud

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    • jimboslice9

      14 years ago

      Still, it doesn’t make Alomar a bunch better than Reyes, seeing as how that is really the only stat that is hugely different of the ones you provided, I’d venture to say that calling Reyes a poor man’s Alomar would not be that far off.

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  2. MB923

    14 years ago

    Old post and all I know but it’s featured under the featured posts. Jeter leading off any inning had a .381 OBP. Jeter was one of the best leadoff hiters in baseball last year. Leading off a ball game, his OBP was .406.

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    • venn177

      14 years ago

      This isn’t incorrect, but it’s definitely skewed because he was a lot better overall batting 2nd.

      1st: .280/.337/.380
      2nd: .348/.408/.415

      His OPS jumps 100 points batting 2nd. His production is much better when he’s batting second, which I’ll take 100 times out of 100 instead of a few at-bats where he is good leading off an inning or game. Get Gardner leading off.

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      • MB923

        14 years ago

        Oh I agree 1000% Gardner should leave off, I’m just saying Jeter was a very good Leadoff hitter. It’s hitting with men on base that he is very poor in, and every single batter except the first plate appearance of the game has a chance to be hitting with men on base. 

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