Saturday, December 16, 2006

Win Shares III

Recapping, we have now signed J.D., Lugo, Dice, Donelly, Romero and Mirabelli. So lets take a look at how our win shares are now looking:

Win Shares
Pos.PlayerW.S.PitchersPlayerW.S.
CVaritek15
SPSchilling14
1bYoukilis11SPBeckett12
SSLugo19SPWakefield10
3bLowell18SPPapelbon12 *
2bPedroia15 **
SPMatsuzaka12 *
LFRameriz30
RPTimlin8
CFCrisp15
RPTavarez6
RFDrew23RPDelCarmen2
DHOrtiz28
1 / 3bHinske9
RPDonnelly6
2b / ssCora9
RPRomero4
OFWily Mo9
RPOkajami6 ***
CMirabelli5
RPUnknown

Totals162

92

Using the 3 year average of all players unless otherwise noted.

* Average of top 90 starting pitchers over the last 3 years.
** Average of top 30 starting 2B over the last 3 years.
*** Average of top 150 relief pitchers for last 3 years.

For a 95 win season we would need 285 Win Shares. This totals 254 right now which is
31 short of the expected goal. Of course we do not have a closer which would push us closer to the magic number.

All win share information determined from The Hardball Times.

The only problem is that if you were to take a look at the top Win Shares for closers over the last 3 years you will see that the leaders have posted 17 (lidge), 16 (rivera) and 18 (papelbon). The average of the top 30 is only 11.5 shares. Obviously, no matter who we get as a closer would leave us short by either 14 or 20 to reach this magic number. Not looking good for 95 wins.

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