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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
And don’t get me started on Dean Palmer!
Has anyone figured out yet how it is that Mark Reynolds is in the major leagues? Watching him botch a play at third base in the sixth inning Tuesday night that helped the Yankees get back in the game reminded me that I cannot figure out why Reynolds is on a major-league roster.
Reynolds’ inability to handle a hard grounder by Russell Martin kept the inning alive for the Yanks, who tied the score moments later on Brett Gardner’s single to right off lefthander Wei-Yin Chen, the Taiwanese import who was making his major-league debut but was stuck with a no-decision thanks in part to Reynolds.
I don’t want to sound mean, but can you imagine what it is like for Orioles manager Buck Showalter to watch Reynolds play every night? Yes, he hits home runs at an average of between 30 and 35 a year. He hit 44 one season for the Diamondbacks. Very nice, but what else does he do?
...I just don’t get it, but it is fine with the Yankees for him to be around to help take away his team’s lead.
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1. Walt Davis Posted: April 11, 2012 at 07:35 AM (#4103691)But upon investigating as to why the O's have not had enough sense to move Mr. Reynolds to DH I discover, holy crap, Nick Johnson is on the O's. And he's made it through 9 PAs without injuring something.
I like Reynolds because I think max/min type guys are fun. His 2009 is an interesting way to measure baseball at the extremes...how many HRs does it take to make a player who leads the league in strikeouts and plays awful defence worthwhile? Also he's worth having in baseball to see how long he can keep his league-leading strikeout streak going.
In a Daniel Murphy kind of way.
MunchKin, clearly.
Not only did he make it through 9 PAs without injuring something....he made it through 9 PAs and stole a base without injuring something.
Interesting to note that despite interleague play when he was with Arizona and a year in the American League, he has never DH'd and has expressed a preference not to.
He lost some 20 pounds over the off-season and seems quicker in the field. Yes, he still makes a lot of errors but is not a butcher in the sense that he can't cover the ground or make the throws.He even makes good plays at 3rd but then muffs a routine grounder.
Exactly. It's stunning that he didn't snap his leg in half.
Maybe he has completed his transformation into pure, elastic fat. Unbreakable, but infinitely jiggly-able.
All right-thinking people hate the DH, even the ones who would be well-suited to act as one themselves.
I don't think it does.
This question also applies to people using "reticent" for "reluctant".
Remember that similarity scores don't include adjustments for era or offensive context, so players in recent high-offense eras will sometimes have overly flattering comparisons on those lists.
Through age 27, Reynolds hit 238/331/483
Through age 27, Schmidt hit 256/374/515
So by this measure, Reynolds is just Schmidt minus 20-30 points of BA and some walks. But Schmidt's line was good for a 141 OPS+, Reynolds' for 110.
Also, the statement in #11 is incorrect as of this moment. Reynolds' most similar through age 27 is Dean Palmer (247/323/477, 111 OPS+), and his similarity score (953) is much higher than Schmidt's (915). Schmidt was Reynolds' #1 through age 26.
David Freese leads the majors with 10 RBI and leads the majors in hits with 12 and is tied for the lead in homers with 3. Despite this he does not lead the majors or his league in BA, OBP, SLG, or OPS and it isn't even close. The man has no doubles or triples and 1 walk so far.
Emilio Bonifacio has gotten on 11 times out of his 22 PA and has stolen a base 4 times already. Starling Castro has only gotten on 7 times out of 22 PA (and has hit 2 XBH to Emilio's none) and has also stolen 4 bases already.
TerpNats is using the word incorrectly. A person can be incredulous, but a statement cannot be. (Unless, perhaps, it is a statement that expresses disbelief.) He meant that the statement was dubious, doubtful, improbable, sketchy. Maybe more people are using the word that way these days. I haven't noticed.
Reticent for reluctant - isn't reticent a more nuanced and specific version of reluctant? Haven't noticed this either, but it seems like many adjectives become increasingly vague over the years. "Incredible" is one ... used to mean "tough to believe," but now it can just mean impressive, great, remarkable, etc.
Huh. I think those are redundant and/or incorrect. But sometimes people are stupid.
This statement leaves me incredulous, but my reticence prevents me from revealing why.
I've done that since I was a kid. Knew better as of a few years ago but no one has ever called me out on it.
There's a chance he's a better second baseman and shouldn't have been moved to third base in the first place. How could he be worse? Unlike a lot of guys with his hitting profile, he's a pretty good athlete. For some reason he's a train wreck at third.
At least statistically he was a hell of a lot better at 2B in the minors than he was at third. Hell, he was better at shortstop than he was at third.
Dean Palmer is Reynold's 1st comp but Schmidt is second. The most comparable by age for Mike Schmidt at age 24, 25, and 26 is, you guessed it , Mark Reynolds.
Is Reynolds the next Schmidt? Probably not but why all the abuse? The haircut?
1: Schmidt had FAR more range than Reynolds
2: The statistical similarity between Schmidt and Reynolds through age 27 is illusory- Schmidt had a 30+ OPS+ edge at every age
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