Beckham Back to the 2 Hole?

[Paint it Black]

The 2006 Sox collapse was caused by the collapse of the offense, as well as the general suckitude of our pitching staff (particularly our bullpen). But I tend to side with Balta in the sense that I feel it's fair to say Mack's defense in CF lost that team several games. And considering we finished 5 out of the playoffs IIRC, that's a big thing. Mack actually had a good offensive year that season too, and it's not his fault Ozzie kept putting him out there even though he sucked at playing CF, so I always felt kind of bad for him though.

 

It was 6 games. At first I was pretty dismissive of your claim, however, after looking at some of the advanced fielding metrics Mackowiak was really bad. How is he gave up 31 more runs than an average center fielder, bad? However, something to consider is that they had very little options. At the time in 2006, Nate Silver of Baseball Prospectus wrote on possible outfielders available via trade. The three big names were Bobby Abreu, Carlos Lee, and Alfonzo Soriano. According to Nate, the Sox would have gained 1.61 wins, 1.44 wins, and 1.12 wins with the respective players, obviously still not enough to catch the Tigers. Playoff probability % added for each respective player was 18.9%, 16.5%, and 12.8%. The best point of Silver's article though is:

 

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McCarthy then went onto be traded that off season for John Danks. Maybe we got lucky?

[Controlled Chaos]

first 137 ABs - .182/.277/.234/.511

last 150 ABs - .287/.301/.427/.728

Where can you get splits like this?

 

Thanks.

[witesoxfan]

Where can you get splits like this?

 

Thanks.

 

www.baseballreference.com

 

Go to any player; hover over game logs, and click on the year you want. Click from any game to any game, and it will tally it up for you.

[Balta1701]

Beckham is 4/23 since his hitting streak ended.