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EonADS
The link for the article about the Indians gunning for Robert is a copy of the link to the Score’s Josh Hamilton article. Fix please
DarthDbacks
“Call To The Pen ranks the top 30 second basemen in the majors.” Is actually a link to top 30 THIRD baseman
Megadro2000
To be completely honest, I become actually enraged when people rank Bryant, Machado, and Donaldson ahead of Nolan Arenado. And I’m a tigers fan. My goodness arenado is statistically better…(not war, but homers and average mostly.
ReverieDays
Colorado helps BA and HRs.
crazymountain
Arenado’s numbers are NOT Coors enhanced.
chesteraarthur
To be completely honest, I become actually enraged when people don’t understand that park factors are a thing.
TheGreatTwigog
Other than park factors Donaldson has much better on base skills and in my, and probably most others opinion is we know exactly what arenado is but Bryant could get even better. While they’re all close JD probably go Bryant Donaldson arenado Machado
TheGreatTwigog
*I’d, not JD my phone has started autocorrecting to baseball players lol
Philliesfan4life
I put Machado and Arenado in a whole different category by themselves , they are the best third basemen in their respective leagues.
cubsfan2489
And you’re wrong.
Nats4life
IMO it’s Bryant arenado donaldson machado in that order Donaldson is older and arenado’s splits show that coors doesn’t give him as much inflation as many think. Yeah there is quite a bit in general but arenado on the road is still better, not to mention stellar defense.
atlbraves2010
IT has taken me a while to cool off my man crush on Arenado, but in my opinion, it simply comes down to where he plays. I know that is not his fault, but I would honestly like to see the numbers that Bryant or Machado would put up playing 81 games a year at coors, or would like to see what Arenado’s numbers would look like playing his home games at a more neutral site.
It is not meant to be a knock against Arenado, its just that I have to wonder whether he would put up those numbers playing somewhere else is all
RunDMC
That would have validity if Arenado weren’t so damn good with the glove. It’s more than just his bat in high altitudes. He’s Trout at 3B.
atlbraves2010
I agree that his glove is all world…so is Machado.
chesteraarthur
“He’s Trout at 3B.” Is this supposed to mean he’s really good defensively at 3b? Because Mike Trout really isn’t that great of a defensive center fielder relative to the other good defensive cfs.
TheGreatTwigog
Agree, idk why Trout has become the defensive gold standard, guess kind of like Jeter years ago
chesteraarthur
From 2014-2016, which is a sample of 3937 innings, trout is 6th by drs (-1), 10th by UZR (-9.9), and 9th by UZR 150 (-3.4) for cf. I guess people think that because he is such a good player, he has to be good at defense? I’m not really sure where the misconception comes from.
bravesfan88
His numbers this year are pretty interesting, when you look at his home and away splits. Obviously, it’s a very small sample size, so you really have to take that into consideration, but the numbers are pretty shocking, to say the least.
Home Stats G- 8, AB- 30, R-5, H-7, 2B-1, 3B-0, HR-2, RBI-4, BB-2, IBB-0, SO-8, SB-0, CS-0, Batting Line -.233/.303/.467 /.770
Away Stats G- 10, AB- 37, R-7, H-15, 2B-5, 3B-0, HR-4, RBI-8, BB-4, IBB-0, SO-2, SB-1, CS-0, Batting Line – .405/.476/.865/1.341
While Arenado is an excellent all-around player, his 2016 numbers do bring up the question of what his batting line might look like if he played elsewhere. That isn’t to take away from Arenado, regardless where he plays, he will still undoubtedly be a top tier player. I’m just curious how different his batting line might be, and if he would go from all-world to just maybe an all-star??
another_jays_fan
Are your home and away stats backwards?
bfolls
I like the post on WAR for relievers. WPA is not a very good predictive stat, but it’s good for determining how much your relief pitching contributed to winning. Britton led the league among pitchers last year with a 6.39 WPA. second highest was Miller at 5.04, then Lester at 4.99