Fukudome Lives!

Dave Cameron says we never should have gotten off the Fukudome bandwagon. What he says here seems relevant to the Derrek Lee discussions.

7 months ago DGU 7 comments 1 recs |

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He has the potential

to make us forget about the $10 million/year DH. Go Kosuke!!

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

by copes006 on Apr 22, 2009 12:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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by DTJchris on Apr 22, 2009 1:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

…and it’s always nice to read good things about Dome. But that article is a lot shorter and less substantive that I’d hoped for. And I can see the author is taking some flak in the comments. It kinda reminds me of this Fangraphs article about Matt Murton that I read the other day. It just seems like they’re not addressing key flaws in the players in question.

Anyway, go Kosuke!

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by dat cubfan daver on Apr 22, 2009 2:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, one person in the comment section has a point....

If the point was to say that we shouldn’t make judgments on small sample sizes, well, yeah, that’s fine. Obviously. But the flip side is we can’t sit here and say with certainty, "So much for that," using the small sample of this April. It’s just a hot month.

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by carmen_fanzone on Apr 22, 2009 2:59 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That's a decent comment, but Cameron's response to a similar comment is relevant, too.

Which is why this is relevant for Derrek Lee. You don’t just take 4 out of 6 months of stats to predict players. You take as many stats you can get, translated as well as you can translate them, and work off of that. If we’re going to make sweeping statements about who Lee or Dome are, we should do so based on their career numbers.

Derrek Lee is good.

by DGU on Apr 22, 2009 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's true.

It’s just a little more confusing with Dome because the bulk of his career stats come from Japan and there appears to be a lot of conflict as to just how to apply those to the major leagues.

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by dat cubfan daver on Apr 22, 2009 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs