2025 MLB Thread

[chasfh]

Dǐck Stuart is one of those guys who played within my lifetime (technically) who almost never registers with me as I think about players from his era. Talk about Dr Strangeglove: he had over 200 home runs and still couldn’t clear 8 WAR for his career. Amazingly, there are five other 200-home-run hitters who had even fewer wins even having hit 200+ homers, like Dante Bichette and Jose Guillen and Mark Reynolds.

[CMRivdogs]

The late great Bob Prince had a nickname for Stuart. Doctor Strangeglove

[papalawrence]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

Dǐck Stuart is one of those guys who played within my lifetime (technically) who almost never registers with me as I think about players from his era. Talk about Dr Strangeglove: he had over 200 home runs and still couldn’t clear 8 WAR for his career. Amazingly, there are five other 200-home-run hitters who had even fewer wins even having hit 200+ homers, like Dante Bichette and Jose Guillen and Mark Reynolds.

I'm fascinated by the career of Chris Davis. He played 13 seasons and in 3 of those seasons his combined war was 15. The other 10 seasons his combined was -3.5

In his final season his ops+ was -8. I cannot wrap my head around that.

His compensation for that production was nearly 200 million

[Tiger337]

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

Dǐck Stuart is one of those guys who played within my lifetime (technically) who almost never registers with me as I think about players from his era. Talk about Dr Strangeglove: he had over 200 home runs and still couldn’t clear 8 WAR for his career. Amazingly, there are five other 200-home-run hitters who had even fewer wins even having hit 200+ homers, like Dante Bichette and Jose Guillen and Mark Reynolds.

I thought Bichette would have had more WAR than that.  13 years with an OPS+ above 100 and less than 8 WAR?  That is remarkable.  He had -34 Fielding Runs one year before you even get to the positional adjustment! 

He deserved a few WAR just for his eyebrows.

 

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I thought Bichette would have had more WAR than that.  13 years with an OPS+ above 100 and less than 8 WAR?  That is remarkable.  He had -34 Fielding Runs one year before you even get to the positional adjustment! 

He deserved a few WAR just for his eyebrows.

 

Wins Above Retina.

[Arlington]

I looked at Edgar Martinez' stats and, unless I am reading things wrong, and I probably am, he appears to have been a better defending DH than the replacement DH.  https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martied01.shtml

[Tiger337]

He was

40 minutes ago, Arlington said:

I looked at Edgar Martinez' stats and, unless I am reading things wrong, and I probably am, he appears to have been a better defending DH than the replacement DH.  https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martied01.shtml

He was a good defender early in his career.  Then he started having hamstring problems and became a fuill-time DH.