Thanks to baseballprojection.com, we have WAR back to 1955. That gives us a pre-Santo onward look at the men who have manned third for the Cubs.
Each season's third baseman is simply the player with the most starts (and, as it happens, innings) according to baseball-reference.com. Only time in a Cubs uniform counts (i.e. Aramis '03) but, in the end, the WAR data covers any position played that year for the Cubs.
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Between Madlock and Ramirez, there wasn't a whole lot. Also note the cameos by HOF members Ernie Banks and Ryne Sandberg.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Cubs 3B WAR Since 1955
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Harry Pavlidis
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3/16/2009 08:23:00 PM
Labels: Aramis Ramirez, Bill Madlock, Ernie Banks, Ryne Sandberg, WAR
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Cool stuff, Harry.
God. Ken Reitz was a bag of poo, too.
How bout that stretch from 94-00?
Priceless.
Think of it this way - # of 4 WAR seasons
1955-1976 12 (22 seasons)
1977-2003 0 (27)
2004-2008 3 ( 5)
ok
Hey Harry nice stuff about the 3rd baseman. I just have a question about Lilly (and because this is a more recent blog entry) I thought I'd add it here.
You mentioned last year, and I guess it did seem that way, that Lilly really used his change up a lot more and his curve a lot less. Is that out of the norm in Lilly's career? And can he get his good Curve back/ what impact would a better curve have on his performance?
This is of course if you have time and all, I don't want it to seem like I'm demanding answers or anything.I'm just curious and thought I'd come to the fount of pitching knowledge for some answer.
FY - Yep, it was down, relative to his 2007 pitchf/x data and the BIS data at Fangraphs
http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=833&position=P#pitchtype
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