Posts Tagged ‘andruw jones’

Colletti and “moneyball” in the same headline…NOT an April Fools joke

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

While perusing Buster Olney’s links today, I was immediately drawn to this one from the Los Angeles Daily News:

Dodgers GM Colletti plays own version of moneyball by Ramona Shelburne

…But after what he’s done for the Dodgers this offseason, just imagine what general manager Ned Colletti could do with a couple days in Washington in a room with Congressional lawmakers who have been dickering, rather fruitlessly, over the federal budget and bank bailout packages.

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WARP value continued…

Friday, March 13th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

After I addressed the price that several of MLB’s top players were paid for each WARP (win above replacement player) that they contributed, Prof. Nerdtron posed the question of which teams did the best job finding value through free agency. I tried to at least begin answering this question by looking at the entire free agent class of 2006/7 and 2007/8. So which teams have done the best job over the past two years?

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Worst GM Moves, pt. 1

Sunday, February 8th, 2009 by Nerdini Alfredo

When your team’s top two starters are Vicente Padilla and Kevin Millwood, you should realize your team is in trouble. How do you fix this, you might ask? Obviously, you don’t pick a name off of this year’s list of free agent pitchers. You could throw a dart at that list and it might land on names such as CC Sabathia, Ben Sheets, AJ Burnett, Derek Lowe, or John Smoltz. Throwing a dart at a piece of paper to improve your team would be irresponsible. Instead, you think logically and sign Andruw Jones and Omar Vizquel to minor league contracts.

I used to think Ned Coletti was the worst GM in baseball but the Rangers’ GM Jon Daniels just won my vote.