Barfield’s Sophomore Slump
November 1, 2007 by Geoff Young
Filed under Personalities, Stats and Analysis
My latest article is up at Hardball Times: What happened to Josh Barfield? Happy reading…
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Worst of the Worst
September 10, 2007 by Geoff Young
Filed under Odds and Ends
With the season winding down, I got to wondering who’s stinking up the joint? Here are the players with the lowest OPS+ by position (minimum 430 PA, roughly what it would take to qualify for the batting title if the season ended now) and the pitchers with the highest ERA+ (minimum 140 IP for starters, 40 G for relievers):
Worst Position Players of 2007
Pos
Name
Team(s)
BA
OBP
SLG
OPS+
Statistics are courtesy of Baseball-Reference and are through games of September 9, 2007.
C
Jason Kendall
Oak/ChN
.245
.300
.313
63
1B
Lyle Overbay
Tor
.239
.317
.397
85
2B
Josh Barfield
Cle
.245
.273
.326
59
3B
Nick Punto
Min
.199
.286
.255
46
SS
Tony Pena
KC
.256
.276
.334
56
Omar Vizquel
SF
.239
.299
.295
56
LF
Jason Bay
Pit
.253
.331
.424
95
CF
Juan Pierre
LA
.290
.323
.347
73
RF
Delmon Young
TB
.293
.322
.416
92
Quick comments:
Kendall and Pierre have humongous contracts. Kendall’s is up at the end of the ‘07 season, …read more
