From mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com Tue Sep 29 11:38:28 1992 id ; Tue, 29 Sep 92 11:38:23 -0600 Received: from fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com by donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com (5.61+++/1.34) id AA27587; Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:20:15 GMT Received: by fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (5.61-AIX-1.2/1.0) id AA133909 (for @donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com:kbos@carina.unm.edu, from mjones/mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com); Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:36:34 -0400 From: mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones) Message-Id: <9209291736.AA133909@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com> Subject: AL MLV Leaders, 1991 (fwd) To: <@donald:kbos@carina.unm.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:36:32 EDT Reply-To: mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL8] Status: OR Courtesy of Dr. Dave.... > From panews!uunet!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dtate Tue Oct 15 15:27:46 1991 > Article: 47131 of rec.sport.baseball > Path: panews!uunet!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dtate > Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball > Subject: AL MLV Leaders, 1991 > Message-ID: <190524@unix.cis.pitt.edu> > Date: 15 Oct 91 17:23:46 GMT > Organization: University of Pittsburgh > Lines: 36 > > Here are the 1991 American League leaders in marginal runs per game (MR/G) > and Total Marginal Runs, Dr. Dave's very own estimates of how many more runs > an average team would score with Player X in the lineup, batting fifth, in > place of a league-average hitter. > > As it turns out, the correlation with Thorn and Palmer's Batting Runs is > *very* high for the TMR numbers. Maybe BR isn't so bad after all :-). > > Player MR/G TMR > > 1. Frank Thomas .413 65.22 > 2. Cal Ripken Jr. .338 54.72 > 3. Danny Tartabull .392 51.79 > 4. Ken Griffey Jr. .323 49.70 > 5. Rafael Palmeiro .311 49.52 > 6. Paul Molitor .272 43.05 > 7. Julio Franco .280 40.87 > 8. Wade Boggs .272 39.10 > 9. Jose Canseco .249 38.35 > 10. Shane Mack .262 37.52 > 11. Chili Davis .234 35.75 > 12. Ruben Sierra .217 34.88 > 13. Edgar Martinez .219 32.83 > 14. Mickey Tettleton .206 31.71 > 15. Lou Whitaker .222 30.61 > > > These numbers do not include any stolen base factor, so you can adjust them > if you wish by adding Stolen Base Runs (= .3*(SB - 2CS) ). Even so, FRank > Thomas is a batting demigod. > > -- > David M. Tate |"Faced as we are with such ubiquitous obliquity, it > dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu | is hard, is hard indeed, and therefore I will not > Plays more pinball than | attempt, to refrain from invoking the names of Kafka, > Dave and Sherri Nichols | Sartre, Shakespeare, St. Paul, Beckett, ..." > > From mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com Tue Sep 29 11:38:31 1992 id ; Tue, 29 Sep 92 11:38:25 -0600 Received: from fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com by donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com (5.61+++/1.34) id AA27599; Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:22:13 GMT Received: by fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (5.61-AIX-1.2/1.0) id AA133917 (for @donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com:kbos@carina.unm.edu, from mjones/mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com); Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:37:02 -0400 From: mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones) Message-Id: <9209291737.AA133917@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com> Subject: NL Marginal Lineup Values, 1991 (fwd) To: <@donald:kbos@carina.unm.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:37:01 EDT Reply-To: mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL8] Status: OR More courtesy of Dr. Dave... > From panews!uunet!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dtate Mon Oct 28 11:26:12 1991 > Article: 48231 of rec.sport.baseball > Path: panews!uunet!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dtate > Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball > Subject: NL Marginal Lineup Values, 1991 > Message-ID: <195150@unix.cis.pitt.edu> > Date: 25 Oct 91 03:32:42 GMT > Organization: University of Pittsburgh > Lines: 49 > > Here are the 1991 National League leaders in Marginal Runs per Game and > Total Marginal Runs, as computed by Dr. Dave's very own MLV method. The > gist of MR/G is "How many more runs per game would a league-average team > score with this player in the lineup, gettin 1/9 of all plate appearances, > rather than some league-average hitter?". Asterisks (*) denote players > with insufficient plate appearances to qualify for the batting title. Note > that platooned players, players who pinch-hit a lot, and late-inning > defensive replacements will have "Total MR" numbers that are mostly garbage, > this this is a quick-and-dirty extrapolation based on games played. > > > Player MR/game Player Total MR > > 1. Barry Bonds .318 1. Barry Bonds 48.61 > 2. Will Clark .292 2. Terry Pendleton 44.35 > 3. Terry Pendleton .290 3. Bobby Bonilla 43.58 > 4. Barry Larkin .279 4. Will Clark 43.18 > 5. Bobby Bonilla .278 5. Fred McGriff 40.79 > 6. Fred McGriff .267 6. Ryne Sandberg 38.79 > 7. Hal Morris .255 7. Chris Sabo 37.89 > 8. Dave Justice* .251 8. Howard Johnson 36.31 > 9. Chris Sabo .248 9. John Kruk 35.07 > 10. Ryne Sandberg .246 10. Hal Morris 34.65 > 11. Ivan Calderon .235 11. Barry Larkin 34.27 > 12. Howard Johnson .233 12. Ivan Calderon 31.43 > 13. John Kruk .231 13. Jeff Bagwell 31.40 > 14. Darryl Strawberry .210 14. Darryl Strawberry 29.12 > 15. Kevin Mitchell* .202 15. Dave Justice* 27.39 > 16. Jeff Bagwell .201 16. Felix Jose 27.08 > 17. Ron Gant 27.03 > [...] > > Spike Owen* .002 Spike Owen 0.23 > Casey Candaele -.002 Casey Candaele -0.28 > > [...] > > Charlie Hayes* -.108 Charlie Hayes* -15.28 > Rafael Belliard* -.134 Alfredo Griffin* -18.58 > Alfredo Griffin* -.171 Rafael Belliard* -20.03 > > > Offensively, Rafael Belliard plus Ron Gant equals Dave Magadan :-). > > -- > David M. Tate | "My mother is a bit confused, Inspector. It was > dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu | a tortoise under his arm, and he wasn't so much > Reads more Yellowthread St.| playing hopscotch as one-legged." (Harris) > mysteries than Roger Lustig| --Tom Stoppard, "After Magritte" > >