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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Least hyped players
Tim Marchman:
I took every player in baseball who has run up at least seven WAR since the beginning of the 2008 season, a fairly generous cutoff that demands just two seasons’ worth of above average play over the last two and a half years. (There were 105 such players.) I then ranked their WAR against the size of the market in which they play and against how many hits turn up on a Google search of their name, and averaged the resulting numbers.
Click for the full article. Here’s the list:
10) Franklin Gutierrez
9) Matt Garza
8) Joakim Soria
Tied-6) Ben Zobrist
Shin-Soo Choo
5) Kurt Suzuki
4) Jeremy Guthrie
Tied-2) Ryan Ludwick
David DeJesus
1) Paul Maholm
• Sabermetrics
• Media
I think Garza gets a fair amount of recognition from the MSM and the average fan, but the list as a whole seems solid. Has all the players I’d throw into the conversation for the most part.