Leaderboards are fun…I could look at Top 10s all day. (Related side note: Top 10 of Everything is a book I’d buy every year if I could afford it. It’s fascinating stuff, and always random, which suits me well.)
But I am a Royals fan, and Royals fans have no business hanging around Top 10s. Royals fans are better suited to Bottom 10s, because our GM insists on signing players who rack up all the wrong numbers.
The Bottom 10 in OBP among all regular MLB nonpitchers (2008 salary)
#10: Jose Guillen – .300 ($12 million)
#9: Corey Hart – .300 ($0.4 million)
#8: Yuniesky Betancourt – .300 ($1.6 million)
#7: Kevin Kouzmanoff – .299 ($0.4 million)
#6: Mike Jacobs – .299 ($0.4 million)
#5: Freddy Sanchez – .298 ($4.2 million)
#4: Carlos Gomez – .296 ($0.4 million)
#3: Bobby Crosby – .296 ($3.6 million)
#2: Jeff Francoeur – .294 ($0.5 million)
#1: Michael Bourn – .288 ($0.5 million)
Drink up, Royals fans. We own two of the 10 worst on-base players in all of the Majors, and Moore has been publicly salivating over another of them (Francouer) since he became our GM.
Nothing more to add; just know that I am heaving a deep sigh as I type this. 2009 is not going to be very fun.
Labels: baseball, Bottom 10, dubious honors, fun stats, numbered lists make the world go ’round, Royals
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January 4, 2009 at 2:54 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Clearly, you forgot the Seitzer effect.Mike Jacobs will laugh in your face when he hits .270/.450/.500 in 2009.
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January 4, 2009 at 12:28 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
You’re totally right. The Seitzer Effect (TM) will turn this bunch of rapscallions into on-base MACHINES…in my dreams.
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January 4, 2009 at 2:16 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Seitzer Effect or not, you can have Frenchy.
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January 4, 2009 at 2:17 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
re: FrenchieDO NOT WANT
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January 4, 2009 at 6:44 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
DMGM can trade Zach for Yuniesky & Francoeur and we'll lock this category up. Of course Royals Review members will be jumping off the top deck at the K.