Nothing too new, but rumors are again popping-up about Chone Figgins coming over from the Angels.
First, some actual statistics from baseball-reference.com.
Year Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS+
2006 28 155 604 93 161 23 8 9 62 52 16 65 100 .267 .336 .376 85
2007 29 115 442 81 146 24 6 3 58 41 12 51 81 .330 .393 .432 117
162 Game Avg 616 100 180 25 11 6 65 50 16 61 103 .293 .354 .400 99
Pos G FP lgFP RFg lgRFg RF9 lgRF9 GS Inn
3B 281 .942 .955 2.15 2.39 2.41 2.68 160 2260.0
CF 244 .986 .989 2.39 2.35 2.73 2.68 213 1918.0
2B 102 .973 .983 3.48 4.44 4.45 4.95 71 717.3
LF 35 1.000 .987 1.54 1.74 2.00 2.08 24 242.7
RF 27 1.000 .984 1.59 1.81 2.07 2.13 12 186.7
SS 27 .952 .972 2.93 4.12 4.72 4.55 17 150.7
Similar batters through age 29
1. Kevin Seitzer (955)
2. Bip Roberts (948)
3. Sam Mertes (946)
4. Doug Glanville (944)
5. Bill Barrett (939)
6. Andy High (933)
7. Jack Rothrock (932)
8. Bill Mueller (932)
9. Patsy Tebeau (931)
10. Tony Boeckel (930)
Decent hitter, good base stealer, and what looks like a roughly average fielder and several positions. Just turned 30 in January. Looking at his PITCHf/x and what he likes to swing at, he seems patient, but tends to go after inside pitches against righties.
How do the projection systems like him (including his name-sake)?
Proj. ba/obp/slg sb cs
James 294/361/392 41 16
Chone 286/358/389 41 13
Marcel 292/359/403 39 10
ZiPS 283/354/386 41 12
PECOTA 284/359/393 33 9
CBS 293/361/401 40 15
Avg. 289/359/394 39 13
He puts about 50 points of OPS on Ryan "Dance Fever" Theriot, in case you're wondering. Chone's projections should go up, in some cases, if he moves from the AL and
3 comments:
Figgins would be a nice add, but "Hot Stove Cubbies" puts a lot of effort into giving off an air of disrespectability. Some linking to the articles he quotes wouldn't hurt.
That said... if we got Figgins, I'd try to play him at shortstop as often as humanly possible. He'd be a step down from Theriot on defense, but more than a step up offensively.
You mean exclamation points don't compensate for lack of sources?
He didn't link, but you can find it at http://www.elismlbrumors.com/
If Figgins were to play shortstop, I'd be all for it, but from what I've read, hardly anybody thinks he could play that position on a daily basis.
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