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QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:21 AM)
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?a...;t=1000&a=n

 

Good Benchmark

Bang Dock Homer

Grab Mocked Hon

Bank Chrome God

Charged Knob Om

Charmed Knob Go

Mach Broken God

Macho Kerb Dong

Danker Comb Hog

Dogma Born Heck

Dang Bock Homer

Grand Comb Hoke

Dank Comber Hog

Back Dong Her Om

 

That could be the new catch phrase for a Beckham homer. You can just hear Hawk: "That ball hit deep...stretch, stretch! You can put it on the board, YES! Another Macho Kerb Dong by Gordon!"

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QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 10:21 AM)
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?a...;t=1000&a=n

 

Good Benchmark

Bang Dock Homer

Grab Mocked Hon

Bank Chrome God

Charged Knob Om

Charmed Knob Go

Mach Broken God

Macho Kerb Dong

Danker Comb Hog

Dogma Born Heck

Dang Bock Homer

Grand Comb Hoke

Dank Comber Hog

Back Dong Her Om

 

 

There are more:

 

Magk Boner Chod

Back Door Mengh (pronounced "Mench")

Mach K Boner God

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...check out Jeff Francouer's rookie stats and remember how people were so ga-ga over him too...

 

.300/.336/.549/.885

70 GP, 272 AB, 14 HR, 20 2B, 1 3B, 45 RBI, 11BB

 

it would seem like the lack of walks and reliance on homers made this predictable, but Francoeur was hitting .300 over 70 games with a ton of doubles...doesn't that sound familiar?

 

His career line is currently a disappointing .266/.308/.424/.732 and the power numbers have been relatively down since 06 - just 82 career homers.

 

So what happened to Jeff Francouer? Couldn't the same thing happen to Beckham?

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QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 01:33 PM)
Beckham is not going to go bad because Jeff Francouer.

 

I hate this line of thinking in sports, but especially in baseball.

 

The point was that the sample size was small enough where even a seemingly great player as a rookie can go south to some degree unexpectedly, not that Gordon Beckham was specifically going to be Jeff Francouer.

 

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QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 01:23 PM)
...check out Jeff Francouer's rookie stats and remember how people were so ga-ga over him too...

 

.300/.336/.549/.885

70 GP, 272 AB, 14 HR, 20 2B, 1 3B, 45 RBI, 11BB

 

it would seem like the lack of walks and reliance on homers made this predictable, but Francoeur was hitting .300 over 70 games with a ton of doubles...doesn't that sound familiar?

 

His career line is currently a disappointing .266/.308/.424/.732 and the power numbers have been relatively down since 06 - just 82 career homers.

 

So what happened to Jeff Francouer? Couldn't the same thing happen to Beckham?

You've nicely overlooked the K ratio.

 

Beckham as a rookie: 6.46 AB/K

Francoeur as a rookie: 4.43 AB/K

 

Beckham has always been and will always be a much better contact hitter. Getz is actually a better comparison to Beckham than Francouer is, and Getz is still a really bad comparison. IMO Beckham will be a lot more like Chase Utley.

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