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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Why does Win Shares hate Josh Beckett?

By Tangotiger

2002-2007, WAR. 1st number from Fangraphs, second number from Chone:

21, ?? Beckett (70)
14, 13 Nick Johnson (80)
8, 6 D’Angelo Jimenez (67)

Win Shares in parens.

Does anyone believe at all that the contributions of Jimenez could approach that of Beckett?

List inspired by John Sickels and football Stu.

The answer isn’t that WS hates Beckett. It just hates starting pitchers.

(11) Comments • 2009/03/13 • Sabermetrics • Linear_Weights

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