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Indians Ink All-Time Tribe Team: RF.. TIEBREAKER
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Posted: 1/24/2013 3:10 PM
Indians Ink All-Time Tribe Team: RF.. TIEBREAKER
In the words of Tom Hamilton, "How about that?" Rocky and Manny tied with 16 votes each for RF. So, we'll eliminate every other candidate and ask simply, Rock or Manny?
Also, I apologize for the thread congestion. If the mods want to fry any of these threads, please do.
Rocky or Manny in RF?
- Poll closed on 01/31/2013
- Rocky Colavito: 18 votes
- Manny Ramirez: 21 votes
Last edited 1/24/2013 3:11 PM by mooseahoy
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Posted: 1/24/2013 3:31 PM
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manny
both played about 8 years for indians, manny had almost 400 more plate appearances. manny posted a 152 OPS+, rocky 137. rocky was better defensively, but not enough to make up that offensive gap.
Last edited 1/24/2013 3:43 PM by buddy34
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Posted: 1/24/2013 4:11 PM
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that is a tough one. I'm going with the Rock for his intangibles.... and for his rocket arm.
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Posted: 1/24/2013 4:39 PM
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Different eras. How would manny do with pitchers mound higher strike zone smaller and pitchers free to throw at you
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Posted: 1/24/2013 4:42 PM
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Has to be the Rock.
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Posted: 1/24/2013 4:44 PM
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OPS+ accounts for the different eras. both numbers are relative to their league at the time.
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Posted: 1/24/2013 5:22 PM
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jameseboy wrote: Different eras. How would manny do with pitchers mound higher strike zone smaller and pitchers free to throw at you The "different eras" thing applies to this entire endeavor. |
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Posted: 1/24/2013 5:45 PM
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Does OPS+ account for lineup protection, out of curiosity?
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Posted: 1/24/2013 5:53 PM
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stats people generally don't give a lot of credence to the notion of lineup protection. it's certainly been a very difficult concept to prove. |
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Posted: 1/24/2013 8:05 PM
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I would think so, but I think it's at least worth a look.
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Posted: 1/24/2013 8:08 PM
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Manny in Cleveland
OBP SLG OPS
.407 .592 .998
Rocky In Cleveland
OBP SLG OPS
.361 .495 .856
Gotta go with Manny
Last edited 1/24/2013 8:10 PM by Dromag67
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Posted: 1/24/2013 8:47 PM
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Again it has to be The Rock ...
I really do not recall "THE CURSE OF MANNY RAMIREZ" ever being in print
The Rock was Cleveland
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Posted: 1/24/2013 8:51 PM
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LUPENEXPRESS wrote: Again it has to be The Rock ...
I really do not recall "THE CURSE OF MANNY RAMIREZ" ever being in print
The Rock was Cleveland I could print out some papers about Manny cursing the 2007 Cleveland Indians if it makes him a better Indian All-Time RF. |
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Posted: 1/25/2013 2:17 AM
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Team Manram
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Posted: 1/25/2013 6:15 PM
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Dromag67 wrote:
LUPENEXPRESS wrote: Again it has to be The Rock ...
I really do not recall "THE CURSE OF MANNY RAMIREZ" ever being in print
The Rock was Cleveland I could print out some papers about Manny cursing the 2007 Cleveland Indians if it makes him a better Indian All-Time RF. please tell me you have heard of the book and the heritage ... Bear in mind as well that colavito was traded and left begrudgingly ... he had no choice and of course manny bailed after our acceptance of him being manny being manny |
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Posted: 1/25/2013 7:17 PM
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LUPENEXPRESS wrote:
Dromag67 wrote:
LUPENEXPRESS wrote: Again it has to be The Rock ...
I really do not recall "THE CURSE OF MANNY RAMIREZ" ever being in print
The Rock was Cleveland I could print out some papers about Manny cursing the 2007 Cleveland Indians if it makes him a better Indian All-Time RF. please tell me you have heard of the book and the heritage ...
Bear in mind as well that colavito was traded and left begrudgingly ... he had no choice and of course manny bailed after our acceptance of him being manny being manny My point is "does the heritage make him a better player though?" Being in a notoriously bad trade that went against the Indians does not automatically qualify the player as All-Time caliber no matter how much he was fond of Cleveland.
Last edited 1/25/2013 7:21 PM by Dromag67
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Posted: 1/26/2013 7:31 AM
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Dromag67 wrote:
LUPENEXPRESS wrote:
Dromag67 wrote:
LUPENEXPRESS wrote: Again it has to be The Rock ...
I really do not recall "THE CURSE OF MANNY RAMIREZ" ever being in print
The Rock was Cleveland I could print out some papers about Manny cursing the 2007 Cleveland Indians if it makes him a better Indian All-Time RF. please tell me you have heard of the book and the heritage ...
Bear in mind as well that colavito was traded and left begrudgingly ... he had no choice and of course manny bailed after our acceptance of him being manny being manny My point is "does the heritage make him a better player though?"
Being in a notoriously bad trade that went against the Indians does not automatically qualify the player as All-Time caliber no matter how much he was fond of Cleveland. We have the Flick factor in that none of us saw him play ... thus a lack of votes Colavito was about more than heritage .... he could play the game - was responsive to the fans ,,, Rocky being Rocky was about quality not indifference did you see him play the game or are you having a flick moment Manny was a hitter - my thought for DH perhaps but he was not our rf perhaps with apologies to flick ... that was colavito |
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Posted: 1/26/2013 5:31 PM
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LUPENEXPRESS wrote:
Dromag67 wrote:
LUPENEXPRESS wrote:
Dromag67 wrote:
LUPENEXPRESS wrote: Again it has to be The Rock ...
I really do not recall "THE CURSE OF MANNY RAMIREZ" ever being in print
The Rock was Cleveland I could print out some papers about Manny cursing the 2007 Cleveland Indians if it makes him a better Indian All-Time RF. please tell me you have heard of the book and the heritage ...
Bear in mind as well that colavito was traded and left begrudgingly ... he had no choice and of course manny bailed after our acceptance of him being manny being manny My point is "does the heritage make him a better player though?"
Being in a notoriously bad trade that went against the Indians does not automatically qualify the player as All-Time caliber no matter how much he was fond of Cleveland. We have the Flick factor in that none of us saw him play ... thus a lack of votes
Colavito was about more than heritage .... he could play the game - was responsive to the fans ,,, Rocky being Rocky was about quality not indifference
did you see him play the game or are you having a flick moment
Manny was a hitter - my thought for DH perhaps but he was not our rf
perhaps with apologies to flick ... that was colavito I looked at all of their numbers and only went by that. The only effect I have is an unbiased opinion based on numerical evidence presented to me. I never met Ramirez, Colavito, or Flick. I haven't romanticized Manny Ramirez, I've only looked at the facts. Just as I did with Lou Boudreau for SS over Vizquel. If I was building an Indians team based on players past performances in our organization I would be building it on numbers. There's no way we can take "intangibles" into consideration for players born 100 years apart. Elmer Flick CLE PA 4020 OPS .792
Manny Ramirez CLE PA 4095 OPS .998
Last edited 1/26/2013 5:33 PM by Dromag67
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Posted: 1/26/2013 6:34 PM
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Dromag67 wrote:
Elmer Flick
CLE PA 4020 OPS .792
Manny Ramirez
CLE PA 4095 OPS .998
What I find bothersome about this comparison is it doesn't put into context neither how good these players were compared to other players of their era nor against players in other eras. Flick played in the dead ball era. Any stat that includes a power component will dramatically impact the advantage of a modern day player has over his dead ball counterpart. One can get a feel for how a player ranks among his contemporaries by seeing where he ranked among the leaders in key stats. One can compare players over eras by using adjusted stats. While adjusted stats are a long ways from being perfect they do provide a better order of magnitude comparison than unadjusted stats. For example, since you used OPS Ramirez has a lifetime OPS of .9960 putting him second on the all time list at 9th. Flick at .8330 finishes 225th. Does it make any kind of sense at all that Flick, one of the top hitters of his day, is by an OPS measure that much worse than Ramirez? Ramirez's career OPS+ is 154 placing him in a tie for 26th place. Flick's is 149 putting him in a tie for 36th. |
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Posted: 1/26/2013 8:12 PM
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if OPS+ doesn't do it for anyone, try wRC+ from fangraphs. manny is at 153, flick at 144. again, close. but flick had a +30 for fielding and +16.4 for baserunning for 58.2 WAR. manny's fielding is -157.2, baserunning -31.8 and WAR 69.6
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