FIRE JOE MORGAN: Commence Wrongness

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Okay, so he only picked dudes from teams that either made the playoffs or came close.

What I don't get is how you separate, say, the Angels from the Indians? What's the arbitrary line you draw in the missing-the-playoff sand? Six games back? Eliminated within the last week of the season?

What sort of "value" is there in missing the playoffs by 4 games that missing the playoffs by 18 games doesn't give you? Ticket sales?

Also -- tangent, sorry -- have you noticed how often people say things like "like it or not, the MVP goes to a team in contention." Or "maybe it shouldn't necessarily go to a team in contention...but it has for the last 60 years! So my vote's for Chump X from Good Team Y!"

I don't get it. I don't get why the MVP isn't the best player award. That makes the most sense to me. I see zero in the criteria listed by the BBBBWWAAA that should lead voters to vote for teams from playoff teams vs. non-playoff teams, ceteris paribus.

It means "Zazzle" in Latin.

# posted by

dak : 10/02/2006 4:45 PM

I meant "goes to a player from a team in contention." Twice.

Can't figure out how to edit comments. Deal with it.

# posted by

dak : 10/02/2006 4:47 PM

Reader Kevin chimes in, with some thoughtful zazzle:

...Did you catch the fact that [Heyman] ranked Morgan Ensberg as his least valuable player in all of the NL? Sure, Ensberg didn't have anything close to his 2005 season, but he did this:

.235/.396/.463/.859 (walked 101 times) with 23 HR, a .295 EQA, and 6.3 WARP3. He was, by my count, 48th in the NL in VORP.

What the hell is Heyman talking about? Seriously. That is a very, very solid year. Like I said, it wasn't his 2005, but it's good. And he's the Least Valuable Player over, say, Clint Barmes and his .220/.264/.335/.598 line (at Coors Field) or his teammate Adam Everett and his .239/.290/.352/.642 or David Eckstein and his .292/.350/.344/.694? Oh, that's right. David Eckstein is scrappy, does all the little things right, knows how to play the game, and has a huge heart. Silly me.

# posted by

Unknown : 10/02/2006 5:40 PM

I also just noticed that his award for worst pitcher is "Cy Old."

A joke so instantly gettable that he has to add a parenthetical explanation:

"Cy Old (Worst Pitcher)"

# posted by

dak : 10/02/2006 5:52 PM

Wait! More wrongness.

Dude also wrote that Billy Beane traded for Frank Thomas. Which he did not do; he signed him as a free agent for about $500k.

# posted by

dak : 10/02/2006 5:55 PM

Is 'honorable-mention" a verb?

I know "zazzle" is.

# posted by

Unknown : 10/02/2006 9:03 PM

I've done some more number crunching.

Twenty out of Heyman's twenty AL MVP picks were from teams other than the Royals.

Every time I hear or see the word Zazzle I think of this.

# posted by

dak : 10/03/2006 12:46 AM

FIRE JOE MORGAN

Monday, October 02, 2006

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