January 18, 200620 yr QUOTE(RME JICO @ Jan 17, 2006 -> 06:38 PM) So if 37 is between top and bottom, you can safely say the middle would be somewhere around 18. So 18 unconverted outs for an entire season. Now out of those 18 unconverted outs, how many will actually result in a score? I would say less than half, maybe 7. So an average fielder to best fielder yields a difference of 7 runs a year. Now if those are spread over an entire season, how many games are lost due to those runs? 2 or 3 at the most. So even though fielding is an important, the difference between great and average does not affect the game as much as hitting or pitching does. You are talking about 7 runs when it should be 7 scoring situations. You give the offense an extra out, many times that leads to multiple runs instead of just one. See the Dye HBP in WS Game 2 as an example of what happens when a what could have eventually turned into an out adds to an inning.
January 18, 200620 yr QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Jan 18, 2006 -> 03:13 PM) Post-ASB numbers... Carl Everett - .228 10 34 .305/.386/.691 Aaron Rowand - .264 8 35 .326/.431/.757 So yeah if anyone was ever considering replacing Rowand with Griffey instead of Everett with Griffey, you would be making a huge mistake. I can almost guarantee you KW was trading for KGII the DH not KGII the CFer. And just imagine Everett hitting in Safeco Field in 2006.
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