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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 09:22 AM | 7 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Jarrod HypnerotomachiaPoliphili(Teddy F. Ballgame) Posted: July 04, 2009 at 06:44 PM (#3242181)

Why haven't they turned Peña into a pitcher yet?

2. Baseball-Birthdays.com Posted: July 04, 2009 at 08:46 PM (#3242248)

'tis a slow day at BTF when a Posnanski piece gets almost no response...

3. Tripon Posted: July 04, 2009 at 08:55 PM (#3242258)

Hey, pitches score negative OPS+, all the time.

4. Walt Davis Posted: July 04, 2009 at 09:30 PM (#3242287)

I get the feeling Poz won't say anything nice about the Royals until Rany is un-banned. :-)

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

5. Guts

Posted: July 04, 2009 at 11:08 PM (#3242322)

Ban Posnanski.

6. Eugene Freedman

Posted: July 05, 2009 at 01:17 AM (#3242346)

Bring back Freddie Patek.

7. Baseball-Birthdays.com Posted: July 05, 2009 at 02:17 AM (#3242357)

Freddie "Too Tall" Patek

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