I even crammed reading Hardball Talk/FanGraphs for an hour on the Metro North train from Fairfield, CT, where I had left my car, Saturday morning.Interestingly, my obsessive studying of the WAR leader board on the train—somewhere between Stamford and the Harlem stop—provided all the inspiration needed to write again. It was the surprisingly high ranking of one player, really, that triggered a desire to investigate replica Gucci YA109520 Ladie's watch further and get some thoughts down on . That player is San Francisco Giants outfielder Andres Torres. Until seeing Torres' name on the WAR leader board, I had not given any thought to him all season. His excellent to date performance had been completely lost on me up until my last minute iPhone research.
There he was, though, boasting just fewer than five wins above a replacement level player. His presence was eye opening, and, hoping to learn more, I of course clicked on his name to see if there were any recent articles written by a FanGraphs author detailing Torres’ surge. Figured there would be, likely from a RotoGraphs writer, given the likely demand for information about his future fantasy value.Sure enough, the talented Matt Klaassen replica Gucci YA105510 Ladie's watch had delivered with a recent piece, entitled The NL’s Second Best Outfielder, dated July 26. Klaasen, who was unfortunately not in attendance for the FanGraphs Live event, began his article with a sarcastic first paragraph in which he illustrated how unlikely of a scenario it was that Torres ranked second, behind Matt Holliday, among National League outfielders in WAR.
Klaassen: I suppose it was predictable. If anyone had asked before the season, “who will be two most valuable outfielders in the National League the week of the trade deadline?” I think most analysts would have agreed on two names: Matt Holliday and Andres Torres. Why even look at the leaderboard? But replica Gucci 18565 Men's watch seriously: Andres Torres? Klaassen then went into a full analysis of Torres’ strong 2009 campaign and excellent 2010 performance. As I expected to read, he warned readers about a likely significant regression, concluding that he would rather trust the projection systems than a small sample size of data for a 32 year old outfielder having a career year.
