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Last year the Rays record when Gabe Gross played was 85-42 while the record when Jason Bartlett played was 80-48. MVP MVP MVP!!111!!!1

The record when Juice pitches is slightly worse than Dewon Brazelton at 13-34.

Here are the records for next years projected 25-man lineup with Win%.

Aki 141-134/.513
Crawford 409-516/.442
Upton 178-191/.482
Pena 143-144/.498
Longoria 73-49/.598
Burrell* 680-626/.521
Navarro 141-154/.478
Joyce** 41-51/.446
Bartlett 80-48/.625

* Record with Phillies
** Record with Tigers

Bench:
Perez 12-11/.522
Zobrist 57-88/.393
Aybar 51-44/.537
Riggans 26-31/.456

Rotation:
Shields 46-40/.535
Kazmir 67-58/.536
Garza 14-16/.467
Sonnanstine 27-27/.500
Price 2-3/.400

Bullpen:
Balfour 43-30/.589
Bradford 13-8/.619
Howell 44-38/. 537
Wheeler 70-55/.560
Percival 42-8/.840
Niemann 3-2/.600
Nelson*** 27-32/.458
*** Record with 2008 Marlins

Obviously, there is not much science behind this, but I stumbled across this on Baseball Musings today and found it pretty interesting. If you don't visit their site you should make an effort as they have all kinds of great databases.

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Dude stop giving unnecessary praise to Gabe Gross.

Percival 42-8/.840

Cy Young.

by R.J. Anderson on Jan 10, 2009 11:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

FWIW

Mariano Rivera has a career 719-132/.845 for the Yankees.

Anyway, as I was lying in the puddle, I think I may have found a way for us to get Bonds and Griffey, and we wouldn't have to give up that much.

~George Costanza~

by Sandy Kazmir on Jan 10, 2009 11:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Damn.

by R.J. Anderson on Jan 10, 2009 12:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I am guessing

that practically any closer would have similar stats as to his team’s record when he appears since he will only appear when they are already leading in the 9th inning. Of course the entire notion of considering a team’s record with or without a particular player is pretty close to meaningless.

by bobr on Jan 10, 2009 11:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

This.

Top Josh Paul Pornos- Big Navi Stroking, 2pitchers1cup, BJ to the Balls, Riggans Your Thingans

by SRQman on Jan 11, 2009 2:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

On your first point

I think it would be interesting to compare them laterally across the position, hence throwing out Rivera’s numbers. On the second point, from a statistical standpoint there is so much noise that significance is impossible, but on the comparison side there is a ton of interesting trivia in this kind of data. I’m a big fan of trivia and history of baseball and I think this applies more to pitchers, because when I see something like the Phillies winning 2/3 of Steve Carlton’s starts my ears perk up a little bit. That is quite the accomplishment and I think it is cooler for other teams that have more than 10 years of data/players. It goes all the way back to 1957 so you can compare players that had great careers and played for great teams and see who might have a better legacy.

Anyway, as I was lying in the puddle, I think I may have found a way for us to get Bonds and Griffey, and we wouldn't have to give up that much.

~George Costanza~

by Sandy Kazmir on Jan 11, 2009 11:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Trivia is interesting

so long as it remains purely that. When people confuse the coincidences that are often the substance of trivia with cause/effect, it becomes misleading.

In this instance, I notice that in 2008, the Yankees had a better record when Melky Cabrera started than when Damon did. (.566-.524) For the Orioles, when Payton or Millar started they had a better record than when either Markakis or Roberts did. (.441 & .434 vs .427 & .413) It would be dangerous to draw any inferences let alone conclusions from such trivia.

by bobr on Jan 11, 2009 1:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I hope I don't come across as defensive,

but that was the point I was trying to impress when I said that there was very little science behind this kind of thing. Perhaps, I should have elaborated.

Anyway, as I was lying in the puddle, I think I may have found a way for us to get Bonds and Griffey, and we wouldn't have to give up that much.

~George Costanza~

by Sandy Kazmir on Jan 11, 2009 3:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The Rays record when I attended a game (including playoffs) was 27-6

MVP!!!!!!!!!

by steve-o1285 on Jan 10, 2009 11:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

lol the twins when i went in parts of 2007 and 2008 they lost 7 straight in which i attended

2 times this year, they lost and then had long lossing streaks after lol, and im planning to go to the rays-twins games on april 30th(my 20th bday) to support the rays of course though, i hope that david price is pitching that day and longo and bossman hits a HR apiece

TB Rays in 09!!!

by RaysOfHope on Jan 11, 2009 10:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs