Comments on: Imagining the Yanks without A-Rod

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:11:20 +0000

But the stats you cite don’t really capture defense. Errors and assists consider only the balls a fielder gets to. Newer stats — UZR for instance — contemplates how much range a player has and how many balls they get to, and in that sense, Beltre is a far superior fielder than A-Rod. He covers more ground; he converts more batted balls to outs than A-Rod does at third.

By: KTEvent

KTEvent — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:09:25 +0000

Ben, help me here. Why do you believe Beltre is a “far superior” fielder compared to ARod?

ARod has always been an excellent fielder — at short and 3B. I have not seen Beltre other than a single game but the stats seem to be nearly identical based on ’09 results: Both played nearly the same number of games at the hot corner; both have nearly identical number on assists and double plays; ARod has significantly less errors (I think 9 vs. 14) and a superior fielding pct.

Don’t know what the stats are over a cumulative period but last year ARod was the better fielder.

http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/sorta.....yStat=FPCT

By: ShuutoHeat

ShuutoHeat — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:54:36 +0000

you are my centaur
my only centaur
you make me happy
when you hit homeruns
you’ll never know man
how much I thank you
please don’t take my centaur away…

By: bexarama

bexarama — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:30 +0000

oh you

By: yankee fan

yankee fan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:16:35 +0000

imagine the yankees with in-yah-face kate hudson and baseball fans having to endure yet another year of arod the centaur and his hollywood needy girl playing the their romance out on the field again, i might give up watching baseball period.

By: Bo

Bo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:18:05 +0000

He’ll be a nice overpaid DH. Not like they cant afford it.

By: Bo

Bo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:17:19 +0000

If 3 weeks of watching Berroa and Ransom play 3b didnt make fans love A-Rod nothing will.

Get ready for round 3 of that this yr. We’ll see how many want Damon back after 3 weeks of watching gardner and winn hit.

By: Big Juan

Big Juan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:01:11 +0000

http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-760689

It’s a classic.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:59:47 +0000

However, it’s a known fact that ARod makes his teammates worse because he is a selfish clown. If it wasn’t for ARod, the Yankees would have won the 2004-2008 World Series and would have swept the Phillies in 2009.

By: Slugger27

Slugger27 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:56:43 +0000

whats the large sample joke? i missed it