Corey wrote:

15% = arbitrary? or have you looked at the #’s?

I “ballparked” it after looking at some various park factors and the like…

81 games in we’ve dealt with a month without A-Rod and Posada, not an inning from Nady, Wang falling off a cliff, some of our better bullpen arms in Bruney and Marte on the shelf for extended periods of time and 8 straight losses to the Sox.

The fact we’re only one game behind the Sox in the East, including 15 games over .500 with 48 wins and i’m pretty damn happy.

Well, if you like to believe that the new Yankee Stadium inflates offensive statistics by 15%
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15% = arbitrary? or have you looked at the #’s?

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Who would have ever expected Johnny Damon to have so many issues in LF this season?
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and i thought he looked pretty sharp there last year

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do those defensive stats factor in all the errors tex has saved this season? Cause the fact that hes had a “poor” 1st half defensively raises an eye brow

no i get that, which applies to all positions. but do you have any idea if the stat is particularly flawed at 1B? i have no idea, but i thought i heard that. or at least maybe it’s not as all-encompassing, because so much more goes into that position than just range due to the amount of throws received from other fielders? and that is an area tex excels. point being, i don’t think you can just look at one stat to evaluate first baseman (or probably anyone for that matter). i’d really be surprised if anyone watching daily hasn’t thought tex has been absolutely dynamite defensively.

Pat F wrote:

not sure if this is true, but i think i’ve heard that uzr/150 can be misleading at 1B

The more games played supposedly the more accurate uzr/150 will be. We haven’t played 150 games yet.

not sure if this is true, but i think i’ve heard that uzr/150 can be misleading at 1B. even if not, this is a spot i would completely disregard data and take what my eyes have seen: teixeira has been unreal at first. if we were grading individually he’d get an A, maybe even a “+” on the end because of how much better he makes everyone else on the infield saving multiple errors per game it seems sometimes.

agree with most of your compartmentalized grading, but B- seems a little low for a game off the best record in the league, playing the tough schedule american league teams are forced to play. probably would go B.

Sorry bout the double post- disregard the first one, put the grades in wrong.

Or…..you have outsized expectations- when a team is 15 games over and on pace for 96 wins, and is one game back in the division, a grade of B- seems pretty low. Lowest I go is a B+. I go A offense, C+ defense, and B pitching.

Or…..you have outsized expectations- when a team is 15 games over and on pace for 96 wins, and is one game back in the division, a grade of B- seems pretty low. Lowest I go is a B+. I go A- offense, C+ defense, and B pitching.