November 13, 200916 yr QUOTE (BaseballNick @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 10:02 AM) The Angels really love outfielders. I imagine CG would play LF, Hunter would stay in CF, Rivera would swing over to RF and Abreu would DH. I would hope (for their sake) they would go Rivera/Granderson/Hunter left to right.
November 13, 200916 yr QUOTE (KevinM @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 11:04 AM) I would hope (for their sake) they would go Rivera/Granderson/Hunter left to right. Yeah, but then they might offend the great Torii Hunter. Hunter is the best CF in the history of the game! That's preposterous!
November 13, 200916 yr QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 09:16 AM) Angels are to OFs as Lions are to WRs. Not exactly a fair comparison when one of them is winning more games in the LCS than the other is winning.
November 13, 200916 yr QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 11:07 AM) Yeah, but then they might offend the great Torii Hunter. Hunter is the best CF in the history of the game! That's preposterous! That's exactly what I was thinking. Torii's ego would be hurt if he (the 9x Gold Glover) would be asked to move from CF to RF. I don't see that happening.
November 13, 200916 yr For you sabermetrics guys, has Hunter ever profiled extremely well in regards to UZR? I've always thought he just plays extremely deep and has an extraordinary talent for timing leaps to pull down potential home run balls. On the other side of that coin (as the great HAWK-eh-roo likes to say), seems like he has always let a crapload of singles drop because of that defensive positioning. So I am just curious if he was always overrated, or just as he has gotten older and a step or so slower?
November 13, 200916 yr QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 06:30 PM) For you sabermetrics guys, has Hunter ever profiled extremely well in regards to UZR? I've always thought he just plays extremely deep and has an extraordinary talent for timing leaps to pull down potential home run balls. On the other side of that coin (as the great HAWK-eh-roo likes to say), seems like he has always let a crapload of singles drop because of that defensive positioning. So I am just curious if he was always overrated, or just as he has gotten older and a step or so slower? He was +13.2 in 2003 which is very good, but aside from that not really and he's a career -14.5 UZR (-2.1 per 150) although data only goes back to 2002. He's also a combined +15 runs saved since 2004 going by Dewan's +/-. Your point on his positioning is actually spot on according to his +/-, he scores very high on balls hit deep and he scores badly on shallow hit balls.
November 13, 200916 yr QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Nov 13, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) He was +13.2 in 2003 which is very good, but aside from that not really and he's a career -14.5 UZR (-2.1 per 150) although data only goes back to 2002. He's also a combined +15 runs saved since 2004 going by Dewan's +/-. Your point on his positioning is actually spot on according to his +/-, he scores very high on balls hit deep and he scores badly on shallow hit balls. Ahh. good to know the stats do sometimes tell you what the eyes do indeed see...
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