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Bonderman and Age 20 (June 26, 2003)

Posted 2:59 p.m., July 3, 2003 (#6) - Dave
  Expand the age range to include 18 year olds, and you get to David Clyde, the poster child for the theory of young pitchers being rushed. Clyde went straight from high school to the bigs. At least Bonderman got to pitch in the minors a while.

UZR 2003 Previews (December 18, 2003)

Posted 4:55 a.m., December 19, 2003 (#29) - Dave
  MGL, do you think Gary Sheffield or Bernie Williams would make the better defensive right fielder. It seems odd to me that the Yankees are considering making Bernie Williams a designated hitter when Gary Sheffield is a very bad right fielder. Do you think that it is possible (or even likely) that Williams would become an average or above right fielder if put in that position.

UZR, 2000-2003 (December 21, 2003)

Posted 8:30 p.m., December 29, 2003 (#17) - Dave
  I want to make a comment regarding the UZR rating of Manny Ramirez. I believe that I read somewhere that the Green Monster negatively effects the UZR rating of Red Sox left fielders. I think that the UZR of Boston left fielders in the past 20 or 30 years is around -7 or -8. Is it possible that Manny is underrated defensively. I know that O'Leary had a good UZR, but could that have been a small sample? I know that Manny was rated as being a good right fielder when he was with Cleveland. Is there any reason to think that he is now worse defensively than when he was with Cleveland? It seems as if he is over his injuries. Has he gotten worse with age or is he better than people think?

UZR, 2000-2003 (December 21, 2003)

Posted 5:14 p.m., December 30, 2003 (#19) - Dave
  MGL, I was not looking at year to year patterns. My comments had to do with what I had read about Manny's UZR's with Cleveland. It was my belief that in his first 6 seasons in RF, he had a positive UZR per 162. If that is the case, then it would indicate that Manny was a decent right fielder earlier in his career. It would also provide a reason to doubt the accuracy of this season's UZR which suggests that Manny is a very bad OF. Do you have his UZR's over the first 6 years of Manny's career?

I think that it is possible that Manny's UZR's over the last 298 games is an inaccurate measure of Manny's true defensive abilities when healthy? I would not be surprised if Manny was a bad defensive outfielder between 2000-2002 since he was injured. I just think that he is currently better than what his 2003 UZR indicates. If I am correct in my belief that Manny is a decent defensive outfielder when healty then Manny will probably have decent UZR's between 2004-2006 as long as he can stay away from injuries the way he did in 2003.

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