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Saturday, July 04, 2009
K.C. Star: Posnanski: Royals take all the fun out of a nice Friday
Depressing. Absolutely. If assigned to come up with just one sentence to explain just why the Royals are playing as badly as they ever have before, I would probably come up with this one: “Tony Peña Jr. and Luis Hernandez are on this team.”
That should explain just how bad this team is. Peña and Hernandez are shortstops. Neither of them can hit. Neither of them can run. Neither of them has any power.
There’s an increasingly popular statistic called OPS+ which measures a players OPS (on-base-plus-slugging percentage) against the league average. All you really need to know is 100 is exactly average — a 100 OPS+ is an average major-league baseball player.
Luis Hernandez came into Friday’s game with an OPS+ of 4.
Tony Peña Jr. came into Friday’s game with an OPS+ of minus-27.
To be perfectly honest with you, I’m not entirely sure how you can even score a negative OPS+.
Easy. Just check with the Leeper Colony of Aints, Joe.
Repoz
Posted: July 04, 2009 at 05:22 AM | 7 comment(s)
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a 100 OPS+ is an average major-league baseball player.
technically an average hitter in his league adjusted for park (not including pitchers and not position-adjusted). :-)
Royals' SS this year ... and I am not making this up: 194/223/248
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