Contract Crowdsourcing 2011-12: Shortstop

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October 19, 2011

We continue our contract crowdsourcing today with shortstops. Brandon Warne provided a summary this afternoon of the actually-pretty-good free-agent class.

Like last time, I’ve added some alternate questions for a few of the players below — inviting speculation, for example, on how many games Jose Reyes will average per season over the course of his next contract and also the degree to which Rafael Furcal’s playoff run with the Cardinals has increased the per-season value of his next deal.

While we’ll reserve all contract information until the end of the present series (to avoid bias), data from yesterday’s polling suggests that Josh Vitters is most likely to take Aramis Ramirez’s place as Chicago’s third baseman in 2012 — although at least one respondent likes Kid from Kid ‘n Play’s chances.

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phoenix2042
14 years ago

Barmes will out-WAR Yuni by 5: 3 to -2. Also Yuni will be eaten by the Milwaukee Beast at some point over the year if he stays with the Brewers (please, no).

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sc2gg
14 years ago

Yuni will turn the corner this year. Bank it. Someone is going to have to fill in for Fielder.

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david
14 years ago

Why isn’t 2008 one of the options for the last season when Rollins will be an above-average shortstop?
2011: 9th of 20
2010: DNQ (12th if you scrap PA requirements)
2009: 11th of 20

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superfly snuka
14 years ago
Reply to  david

“Average” means mean, not median, genius. And 9th out of 20 is above the median anyway. And there are more than 20 starting shortstops in baseball – if you only take the 20 who were good enough to make the PA cutoff, that’s called selection bias. But otherwise, sick burn!

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