January 11, 2009
How Many Runs?
Joe Posnanski comes up with a new use for the Lineup Analysis tool.
*According to the Baseball Musings Lineup Analysis -- one of my favorite toys -- a whole team of 2008 Adam Dunns would average 6.67 runs per game -- so that's 1,080 runs per season.
A whole team of 2008 Willie Bloomquists, meanwhile, would average 4.177 runs per game -- 677 runs per season. So using the Musinator, Dunn is 400 or so runs better offensively than Bloomquist. That sounds about right to me. Of course, it's downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play.
Not only is it an honor to appear in a Pozerisk, but I also get a new nickname, the Musinator. That joins Pintometer, the name they called me in the ESPN research department.
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That all Adam Dunn team would be fun to watch. For one thing, you could pretty well guarantee that some pitcher facing them would break the major-league strikeout record for a nine-inning game at least once that season, and the low team BA would also make a no-hitter or two far more likely than usual. On the other side of the coin, a lot of pitchers would get whiplash from watching all those long balls whistle past them. :-)
Can you put in a lineup of Tim Raines and Jim Rices and see which team would score the most? Use career stats.
Well I just did it using career stats- runs per game
Raines-5.679
Rice-5.84
To me Raines is a first ballot type of player-and I have now become convinced that Rice belongs
Dave, no biggie, but I think Poz was referring to your lineup tool as the Musinator, not you personally.
Out of curiosity: 5.927 for Rickey
Did you use Rickey's career stats?
