Before this season started, I quipped the following when the Giants signed Juan Uribe: If Juan Uribe makes the team, speculation is that he’ll earn about $1M for his services. That contract is paying him like he’s a .25 WAR player, which is about right. I don’t like Juan Uribe as a player but I don’t mind this move. He’ll… Read more →
(Click to enlarge) I’m still playing around with Baseball Projection.com’s Historical WAR Database, and it got me to thinking: What happened to Willie McCovey in 1964? In the graph above, you can see that McCovey’s age 26 season in ’64 was quite the drop off from his previous years when he really started to enter his peak years. In 1963… Read more →
I’m borrowing (stealing) an idea from my fellow blogmate Sky Kalkman over at Beyond the Boxscore. Attached below is a line graph showing the career production, in terms of WAR, for Barry Bonds, Wilie Mays, and Willie McCovey. (Historical WAR numbers gleaned from BaseballProjection.com) Note: Since the win values only go back to 1955, Willie Mays is getting short-changed for… Read more →