Comments on: Stay Gold, Ponyboy

By: Diane Firstman

Diane Firstman — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:30:33 +0000

[13]

In Jeter’s case, the other 40% is “intangibles”

By: Raf

Raf — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:34:01 +0000

100% natural but 60% fruit juice?

By: RIYank

RIYank — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:24:41 +0000

[11] Yes!
And the one in Warwick, RI has a good pasta e fagiol’.
And hey [10], mista elitist Japanese New Yawk snob, I gotcha olives right heah! (That was my Federal Hill accent.)

By: thelarmis

thelarmis — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:27:01 +0000

[10] i don’t consider it ‘italian’ food, but they do have great breadsticks! : )

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:24:46 +0000

[9] Hahh! The Olive Garden…yikes..is that what people outside New York really consider Italian food??

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:16:52 +0000

Pastadivingjeter — the newest meal at The Olive Garden.

By: Yankster

Yankster — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:52:05 +0000

I don’t watch other SS enough to have a strong opinion, but the complex defensive metrics seem unreliable when you look at their variability across a season.

When everyone makes jokes about Jeter’s defense, why does he get no credit for the lack errors (and the high field percentage)? Do we think this stat is basically the equivalent of a non-starter win? Just the scorer’s discretion? Why does carry so well across all the parks (and scorers)?

Jeter played about as many innings as everyone else but had 1/3 the average number of errors 7 versus 20. Why doesn’t that at least stifle the chuckle response?

Baseball reference has a nice digest for defensive metrics by position:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2010-specialpos_ss-fielding.shtml

By: RIYank

RIYank — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:38:55 +0000

[2] Me too, exactly. And it’s perfect on Fire Joe Morgan Day.

By: Mattpat11

Mattpat11 — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:58:14 +0000

I also think I’d be more appalled if we could find defensive metrics that don’t have that horrible habit of contradicting all the other defensive metrics.

By: Diane Firstman

Diane Firstman — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:50:01 +0000

“Dalek Jeter” has better range ….

By: tommyl

tommyl — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:44:18 +0000

“You think I can field, you really do!”

By: cult of basebaal

cult of basebaal — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:32:10 +0000

However, congrats to Cano on his well deserved 1st and Teixeira on his 4th.

By: Mattpat11

Mattpat11 — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:31:44 +0000

I love that Jeter wins every year because I love that it pisses people off.

Its the frigging Gold Glove. Its like getting bent out of shape over the manager of the year.

By: cult of basebaal

cult of basebaal — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:31:30 +0000

Ugh.

Just, ugh.