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September 3, 2009 - 11:20 am
The 2003 Los Angeles Dodgers had one of the greatest pitching staffs the game of baseball has ever known. At the height of the steroids era, in a season when 104 players would test positive for performance enhancing drugs, the Dodgers hurlers posted a 3.16 ERA, good enough for an insane 128 team ERA+, and [...]
August 31, 2009 - 11:19 am
Okay, so at a time when most people are debating whether or not the Washington Nationals can even break .500 next season, this is going to sound more than a little crazy, but I think the Nats have an outside chance at contending next season.
I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but I am saying [...]
June 29, 2009 - 9:30 pm
We here at Umpbump have done quite a few all-time teams. We’ve also cataloged quite a series of Hot Baseball Wives. In this post, I will attempt the acrobatic feat of bridging the twain. Yes, reader: The All-Hot Team.
For reasons of attention span, or specifically, the lack of it, I am focusing on current major [...]
May 24, 2009 - 3:05 am
The rate at which home runs have been flying out of the new Yankee Stadium has been a hot topic since the first weeks of the season, but up to now the statheads have been urging caution and calm. “Small sample size” they have cried.
But as we close in on the two month mark, it [...]
February 27th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Derek Jeter provides sub-par defense at SS?!
We have to get this out to the press ten years ago!!!
I also heard that Barry Bonds walks a lot.
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February 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Brian, I see that for once we are in agreement. This calls for cake!
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March 4th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Jeter was actually decent defensively in his rookie season, and when both were still prospects (way back in 1993), the consensus was that ARod was the better player offensively, and Jeter was the better defender. Umm… Well, as it turns out, not quite. ARod is far superior all around – not that that’s is an insult necessarily. But those Gold Gloves are a joke, as they often are.
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March 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Kris, I sometimes think that when two good players are judged against each other, the one with less offensive prowess is often accorded “better defender” status almost by default.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Ummm, so maybe Mrs. Butler isn’t as hot as Mrs. Kotsay or Mrs. Tejada…but if she can cook and ENJOYS IT, that makes her a hot baseball wife.
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Puhlease….that report is bogus just like this article. This is the same report that said Clint Barmes was the best Shortstop. Where’s Clint Barnes? Probably playing for the Mudcats or the Bulls. C’mon now.
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April 10th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Right, “TrueYank.” And all the defensive stats ever invented are no doubt also bogus. We all know that Derek Jeter is a great defensive shortstop, just like we know that David Eckstein “just knows how to win.”
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April 11th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Sarah seriously get your head out of the stats page. You put up a one sided article and slammed Jeet. Obviously being a Red Sux fan objectivity goes out the window. I mean how could we truly trust an article that sites hitting on Sienna Miller as truth.
You’re basing it on stats to tell me Jeter sucks? Then you might as well tell me Ozzie Smith sucks, Omar Vizquel sucks, Dave Concepcion, sucks.
The fact of the matter here is that there are simply to many formulas and variables when it comes to stats. So yes, you can make stats prove anything.
You’re just pissed because the “people with the microphones” don’t admit it so you have to pull out a professor from the “Wharton School”. As if “Wharton School” of business will sway my thinking. I know it’s bogus when stats tell me that Clint Barnes is a better Shortstop.
This is just another Red Sux fan with nothing better to do then slam Jeet once again.
“Derek Jeter has won multiple Gold Gloves, yet his defense sucks.” Yeeeeaaaah the Gold Glove voted on by Managers and Coaches , but yet it infuriates you that nobody sees what you see except a couple stat nerds. I’m going to believe you and the professor at Wharton with the stats over MLB Managers and Coaches?
Pft.
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April 11th, 2008 at 8:25 am
You say that I wrote that “Jeter sucks” and that I “slammed Jeet.” I actually wrote that “I’ve always felt that Jeter seemed like a pretty classy guy” and that “I respect his ability to reliably hit .300 with moderate power.” But I do think that one part of Jeter’s game—his defense—has been really overrated, yes.
You clearly disagree, and I’m sorry to have offended such a neutral, unbiased student of the game.
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April 11th, 2008 at 9:15 am
The problem here isn’t that stats can be made to say anything, it’s that that basically ever defensive stat ever invented is in agreement that Jeter is bad at defense. And those same stats all agree that Ozzie Smith, Omar Vizquel, and Dave Concepcion were all great defenders, so there is really no comparison there.
Sometimes the gold glove voters and the stats agree that someone is a great defender. In a other cases, they don’t and the stats help us know that a player is not actually as good as they look.
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