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Aaron's Baseball Blog - Andruw Jones (September 9, 2003)

Posted 2:48 p.m., September 9, 2003 (#2) - Aaron Gleeman(e-mail) (homepage)
  Is it possible that Andruw's high walk rate in his rookie year was partly the result of batting low in the batting order? Was he batting in the #7 or #8 slot, where semi-intentional walks are far more likely?

I had the same thought, but I checked into it and that doesn't seem to be the case. In 1997, Andruw totaled 399 at bats. Only 18 of them came batting in the 7-8-9 spots. He got 159 ABs batting 5th and 152 ABs batting 6th. With a total of 72 ABs batting 1-4.

ABB# (November 24, 2003)

Posted 5:50 p.m., November 24, 2003 (#11) - Aaron Gleeman(e-mail) (homepage)
  Hey fellas -

Tango, thanks for linking me. Nice to see that I have stumbled onto something useful/interesting.

As for the name...

I was thinking of going with the "Aaron's Baseball Blog Average." Not that catchy, but the acronym is ABBA, which isn't bad.

Any other suggestions?

ABB# (November 24, 2003)

Posted 6:06 p.m., November 24, 2003 (#13) - Aaron Gleeman(e-mail) (homepage)
  Yeah, I'm not all that excited about the ABBA stuff, but what would the acronym for "The Aaron Number" be? ABBA at least has some sort of name recognition and it "sounds" normal when you use it, like EqA or something.

ABB# (November 24, 2003)

Posted 6:32 p.m., November 24, 2003 (#14) - Aaron Gleeman(e-mail) (homepage)
  Okay, as long as I'm babbling...

What about:

TAN = The Aaron Number

or

AaN = Aaron Number

or

ABBA = Aaron's Baseball Blog Number

Can I get some votes?

ABB# (November 24, 2003)

Posted 8:16 p.m., November 24, 2003 (#16) - Aaron Gleeman(e-mail) (homepage)
  ABBA = Aaron's Baseball Blog Number

As usual, I'm an idiot. That should be Aaron's Baseball Blog AVERAGE.

C'mon, I need an opinion. I'm running this on my blog tomorrow and I don't have a name for it yet!

Another possibility is AGA = Aaron Gleeman Average

ABB# (November 24, 2003)

Posted 9:46 p.m., November 24, 2003 (#19) - Aaron Gleeman(e-mail) (homepage)
  Hmm...I think I like GPA. Definitely the leader in the clubhouse. Sounds good, doesnt have anything to do with a bad music group and it is a "grading" system.