Stat of the Week

Yesterday's Recap

Francis is still winless and the Roxs got beat again by the D-Backs. At 6 - 1 against us, are the D-backs that good or the Roxs just padding their record? The team just looked listless. No desire, we need a Varitek moment. And what is a Varitek moment? Well back in the day (2004) the Red Sox were playing uninspiring baseball and the Yanks were in town putting a beat down on the hapless Sox. I can't replay this exactly but A-Rod and Varitek got into it and Varitek let out a good can of whup ass on A-Rod and the Yanks. The team got fired up and went on to win the World Series that year. What the Roxs need? A good snake ass whuppin...the D-backs have no fear about us, they are walking all over us...let's get fired up! Let's bean someone!

Stat of the Week - Win Shares

The last bit of player rating systems. Win shares considers statistics for players, in the context of their team, and assigns a single number to each player for his contributions for the year. All pitching, hitting and defensive contributions by the player are taken into account. Statistics are adjusted for park, league and era. It is a complicated formula with some arbitrary numbers and personally I think gives a lot wins to the offensive. The 2007 leaders were

Holliday 30

Tulo 25

Helton 24

Hawpe 22

Atkins 20

The top pitcher was Francis with 14 win shares. So if by definition 14 win shares is equal to about 5 wins then how does it all equate when Francis had 17 pitching wins?