Final AL All-star Spot

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It's Tough...

Pods has been great. So has Jeter. I am still kind of bitter over last year's game and Guillen's not playing, but as of right now I would vote for Torii Hunter. He's been the most valuable IMO.

by FLATigersFan on Jul 6, 2005 7:53 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks for the support

Its Offical Pods has become the 32nd all-star.

by JoeCoolMan24 on Jul 6, 2005 8:51 PM EDT reply actions

Jeter

As much as I dislike Jeter, I have to go with him, followed closely by Hunter. The occasional single and then automatic steal are nice, but pretty useless without walks or extra-base hits.

by Jeff on Jul 7, 2005 5:45 AM EDT reply actions

Brian

I'm with Jeff. Outside of the stolen bases, Podsednik is a pretty average player. I think even Matsui should have gotten in ahead of Scott P.

I got a little annoyed when Price and Dickerson said on the radio that even though Lee is better then Podsednik, that the "White Sox wouldn't have as many wins" if they had Lee. It sounds pretty counterintuitive because nobody will argue Podsednik is better then Lee, so how can you say a better play would result in less wins.

Brian
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by Tigerblog on Jul 7, 2005 10:28 AM EDT reply actions

Lee

Lee is having as good a season as he could ever hope for. So many RBI opportunities.

by Jeff on Jul 7, 2005 1:34 PM EDT reply actions

As much as I hate...

... to jump in on a week-old topic, I recently uncovered my 1983 Bill James Baseball Abstract when helping my parents move to their newly-built house that they are retiring to... So, the 1983 BJBA covered the 1982 season, the one where Rickey Henderson stole 130 bases. Bill James calculated that Rickey's base-stealing exploits got the A's an extra 12 runs. Furthermore, he said that was an estimate, and that he thought that estimate might be a bit high. And that's with Rickey stealing 130 at a 75.6% success rate, whereas Poddy stole 70 last year with a 84.3% success rate. Surely, making less outs on the basepaths would help Pod's numbers, but stealing 60 less bases would probably offset that pretty easily.

by swampudlian on Jul 14, 2005 10:06 AM EDT reply actions