The final tallies are in, and it's not pretty:
NAME PA% VORP
Jim Thome 8.8% 47.4 Paul Konerko 10.4% 25.4 Jermaine Dye 9.2% 12.2 A.J. Pierzynski 8.3% 9.6 Josh Fields 6.8% 8.2 Tadahito Iguchi 6.2% 6.4 Rob Mackowiak 4.4% 6.1 Luis Terrero 2.3% 0.1 Jerry Owens 6.4% -1.1 Danny Richar 3.4% -2.5 Ryan Sweeney 0.8% -3.2 Pablo Ozuna 1.4% -3.9 Scott Podsednik 3.9% -4.9 Darin Erstad 5.7% -6.2 Alex Cintron 3.2% -6.8 Juan Uribe 9.2% -7.1 Toby Hall 2.0% -9.6 Joe Crede 2.9% -10.8 Angel Gonzalez 3.5% -18.6
Couple notes before I move on:
-40% of our Plate Appearances were taken by negative VORPs.
-Ozzie favorite AGonz is going to learn how to play CF in fall instructional league. So not only does he give you amazingly negative offense, now he can give you shitty defense at RF, CF and 3B.
The Runs Created Formula is a simple calculation that estimates how many runs a player/team will score.
For the White Sox 2007, using OBP × SLG × AB
RC = 699 (versus 693 actual)
Pretty slick eh?
So let's get grindy!
Get rid of Uribe, and replace him with Eckstein:
Uribe 2007 RC=57
Eckstein 2007 RC=80
That's a gain of 23 runs at SS
Let's get rid of Owens & Erstad in CF, and replace them with the career year of Rowand in CF:
Erstad 07 RC=32
Owens 07 RC=36
Rowand 07 RC=118
That's a big gain of 50 runs in CF
And let's remove that 2007 abortion at 3B, and replace it with career year vintage 2006 Joe Crede:
Crede 07 RC=14
Cintron 07 RC=17
AGonz 07 RC=13
Crede 06 RC=89
That's a gain of 45 runs at 3B
So that's a net gain of 118 by upgrading three bad positions:
2007 Sox Actual Runs Scored = 693
Add 118 new and improved runs = 811
Wow,that's GREAT!!! Right???
The bad news is the Sox Allowed 839 runs.
If you score 811, and allow 839 that's not so great. The Pythagorean Formula projects that as a .485 win % or a record of 79-83.
In 2008 the entire offense will likely decline, with the exception of Fields and Richar. We got much bigger problems than grindiness Kenny.
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