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Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings
Frayed Knot Oct 29 2012 10:33 AM |
To paraphrase that old commercial for the place that apparently needs to update its brand/logo: It’s time to make the Rankings
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Frayed Knot Oct 29 2012 10:40 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
Personally I've gotten as far as:
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Swan Swan H Oct 29 2012 10:54 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 30 2012 11:21 AM |
30. Wright
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TransMonk Oct 29 2012 03:44 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Nov 02 2012 10:53 AM |
30 R.A. Dickey
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Frayed Knot Oct 29 2012 05:01 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
PITCHERS:
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Vic Sage Oct 31 2012 11:33 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings Edited 6 time(s), most recently on Dec 06 2012 11:16 AM |
------- (great)
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 31 2012 01:11 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
30. Wright
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 31 2012 01:16 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
I don;t think I've ever ranked a relief pitcher as high as Parnell here but it's relative to his teammates. I am harder on Santana than most of you so far.
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Vic Sage Nov 01 2012 08:38 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
you're harder on Santana than ANY of us so far. but that's ok, that's why we do this. To wash out the "outliers".
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Ceetar Nov 01 2012 08:43 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
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it's certainly interesting. If it was just about this season, and there was no other Mets years involved, we'd still put Johan Santana pretty high on the "greatest Mets" list just off the no-hitter. The numbers look bad but the numbers were really good through June. But the bad numbers coincide with the Mets collapse too so they did have a pretty big contribution, regardless of the injury bit. (We don't give Reed Johnson enough hate btw) I need to get this bit done myself now that I'm at work and have power here and all that.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 01 2012 08:46 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
I'm also way high on Hairston and Rauch and low on Tejada. Hmmm
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Ceetar Nov 01 2012 08:49 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
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that seems right to me.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 01 2012 08:53 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
Do your Top 30 and see. I did not peek at the others before I did my list (which btw was constructed in 3 buckets of position players, starters and relievers and combined with the idea of aligning the "tiers." I wouldn't consider Santana Gee or Young in the same group as Dickey nor Niese who clearly established a level for themselves.
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Swan Swan H Nov 01 2012 09:28 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
I see that I have Duda way lower than anyone else, but his abysmal (and, to my mind, indifferent) defense in RF really colors my rating.
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Vic Sage Nov 01 2012 10:06 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
if he missed the same number of balls but seemed to care more about it, you'd rank him higher?
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Frayed Knot Nov 01 2012 10:20 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
As compared to the (still emerging) consensus:
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seawolf17 Nov 01 2012 10:34 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
Game on.
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Vic Sage Nov 01 2012 11:12 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Nov 01 2012 11:29 AM |
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I'm sure i'm understating the value of the one and overstating the value of the other. But i think it does accurately represent my preference for shorter but more productive contributions over longer but unproductive ones. Pelfrey's few starts were good. Tejada was a glove-only SS with an empty BA, who missed a month to boot. No love from me for that. It's better to burn out, than to fade away -- my my hey hey of course, there is a tipping point. If a guy plays badly but plays alot, isn't he contributing something more to the team than someone who plays almost not at all, regardless of success? Somewhere along the spectrum, even Bay's contributions are superior to a player with relatively few ABs or IPs. If we say it does not, that his contribution is entirely negative and the more he plays the more he hurts the team (which is true, too), then by that logic, I actually should be rated higher than Bay, since i just sat on my couch and didn't hurt the team at all. That being said, I ranked Bay last. So its a delicate procedure, this weighing of plusses and minuses, of comparing disparate contributions. More art than science, i think.
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Swan Swan H Nov 01 2012 11:23 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
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Not indifferent in attitude but in effort, jogging after balls over his head, that sort of thing.
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Vic Sage Nov 01 2012 11:28 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
ok, got it. but maybe he was running as hard as he could? It always looked to me like Kevin McReynolds only ever jogged after balls, but everybody tells me he was a heck of an OFer (despite my eyeballs), so maybe its not an easy thing to assess.
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Ceetar Nov 01 2012 11:44 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
30 Dickey
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G-Fafif Nov 01 2012 10:26 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
30 Dickey
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Vic Sage Nov 02 2012 10:13 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 05 2012 08:09 AM |
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I've made a bunch of adjustments
In what parallel universe was Thole "relatively competent if decidedly unspectacular"? In a universe with literally NO other catchers? where, if Thole's not there behind the plate, the ball just rolls to the backstop and the ball-boy has to throw it back to the pitcher? Because in any other universe, he sucked BHMC.
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Frayed Knot Nov 02 2012 10:31 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
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Noted. Anyone who decides to make changes should either: a) put up a new post with your new list or b) let us know that you've edited your old post so the changes aren't missed in the tabulating
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TransMonk Nov 02 2012 10:53 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
I have edited to flip Hefner with Rauch and Batista with Byrdak.
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Frayed Knot Dec 02 2012 07:18 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
Eight of us have submitted lists to date. Anyone else still interested in getting in on this (or updating your existing votes) do so sometime this week as I'll try to wrap it up by then.
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Nymr83 Dec 02 2012 08:50 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
30 R.A. Dickey
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Frayed Knot Dec 09 2012 05:31 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
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FINAL 2012 RANKINGS
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Edgy MD Dec 10 2012 09:21 AM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
Good job. Sorry I failed to participate. My moving cut into my time when this started, but I should've gotten around to it.
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Frayed Knot Dec 10 2012 09:00 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
I can't imagine that a full-year closer ever finished so low.
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Frayed Knot Jan 12 2013 06:18 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 23 2013 10:47 AM |
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Frayed Knot Jan 12 2013 09:39 PM Re: Two and a Half Dozen Men - aka, the 2012 Rankings |
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