“He probably won’t be a $16 million per year guy in 2015. The bet is that they’ll have extracted enough value from 2011-2014 so that it won’t matter.”
I’m not so sure of the assumption that just because the players earns what he’s paid in terms of combinatory production, that the positive contributions outweigh the negative contributions in terms of World Series odds.
Andrew
15 years ago
StatCorner has Votto with a 1.9 IF%.
Comparing Lofton and Ichiro straight up with WAR is misleading. Lofton coming into the majors three years younger than Ichiro (25 vs. 28) gives him a big advantage as some of, if not their best, years are ages 25-27 as players whose skills mainly derive from athleticism. I don’t think it’s a coincidence Lofton’s best three year stretch according to fWAR was his first three full years in the bigs. Ichiro missed out on the same luxury, possibly playing his best years in Japan.
12/5/10, eh? =)
“He probably won’t be a $16 million per year guy in 2015. The bet is that they’ll have extracted enough value from 2011-2014 so that it won’t matter.”
I’m not so sure of the assumption that just because the players earns what he’s paid in terms of combinatory production, that the positive contributions outweigh the negative contributions in terms of World Series odds.
StatCorner has Votto with a 1.9 IF%.
Comparing Lofton and Ichiro straight up with WAR is misleading. Lofton coming into the majors three years younger than Ichiro (25 vs. 28) gives him a big advantage as some of, if not their best, years are ages 25-27 as players whose skills mainly derive from athleticism. I don’t think it’s a coincidence Lofton’s best three year stretch according to fWAR was his first three full years in the bigs. Ichiro missed out on the same luxury, possibly playing his best years in Japan.