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Thursday, May 09, 2013

ESPN: Simon: Andrelton Simmons makes all the plays

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posted 2 weeks ago by spike to atlanta, braves, defense | 5 comment(s)

Entering Wednesday, Simmons had played 680 innings in his major league career and the Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) numbers have him with 30 defensive runs saved. He had 19 in 426 innings last season and already has a major-league best 11 in 254 innings in 2013.

For a little perspective, that’s an incredible number for what amounts to less than half a season’s worth of play. No shortstop has had 30 defensive runs saved in a full season since Troy Tulowitzki had 31 in 2007.

Simmons has been ...

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1. Walt Davis posted on January 25, 2013 at 09:40 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

ANTI-SWAGGER ALERT

2. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:35 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Is Towers trying to get fired? He's actually admitting they'll accept less talented players if they're "gritty"?

What an ass.

3. ShoeGrit posted on January 26, 2013 at 12:22 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Chris yhoung was gritty...ran into walls...that worked oujt well

Justin hurt his thumb prett bad....played thru it..... true grit....that worked out well too.

I bet you end up with an entire roster full of grinders and tbhey all end up grinding on each other

4. Dan posted on January 26, 2013 at 02:58 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Is Towers trying to get fired? He's actually admitting they'll accept less talented players if they're "gritty"?

What an ass.

I don't see how his admission of this changes anything. It's a readily apparent fact to anyone who looks at the transaction history since he took over as GM in Arizona.

5. Tripon posted on January 26, 2013 at 03:03 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The funny thing is that before the D'backs picked Towers as their GM, the owner gave a quote saying that the next GM will have to focus on creating a strong farm system. So they pick Towers, and he proceeds to trade most of the farm system and talent for 'Grinders'. Just weird.

6. KT's Pot Arb posted on January 26, 2013 at 04:10 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

The funny thing was that ownership claimed Josh Byrnes left a barren farm system according to ownership, but the amount of talent Towers has been able to find in it or trade away has been ridiculous (Goldschmidt, Parker, Collmentor, Skaggs, Eaton, Ryan Cook, Matt Davidson, Cowgill, Holmberg, Chris Owings, Pollock). Even today the DBacks top prospects are mostly Byrnes/Dipoto guys.

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