6/22 at Pirates

[allquixotic]

I'm watching baseball instead of doing things I should be doing at 1:37 in the afternoon. And the O's have quite a losing record this season. Boy am I devoted.

But man, Hardy sure makes the game worth watching, almost every night.

[Malike]

I wish the Pirates would trade us McCutchen for Jones, straight up. Of course, they'd laugh us off the planet.

[Saintbird]

Hardy has another fan apparently...

[nate22]

Hardy does it all.

[NCRaven]

I wish the Pirates would trade us McCutchen for Jones, straight up. Of course, they'd laugh us off the planet.

Statistically they are virtually the same player. Within points of each other and in most Jones has a slight advantage - Avg (Jones .295 - McC .291), HRs (Jones 11 - McC 10), RBI (Jones 43 - McC 37). Biggest difference is walks and that is decidedly in McCutcheon's favor.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Statistically they are virtually the same player. Within points of each other and in most Jones has a slight advantage - Avg (Jones .295 - McC .291), HRs (Jones 11 - McC 10), RBI (Jones 43 - McC 37). Biggest difference is walks and that is decidedly in McCutcheon's favor.

2011 WAR:

Jones 0.5

McCutchen 4.1

[NCRaven]

2011 WAR:

Jones 0.5

McCutchen 4.1

So much for a quick look at the easy stats!!

[NCRaven]

2011 WAR:

Jones 0.5

McCutchen 4.1

So much for a quick look at the easy stats!!

Given that everything except walks seems pretty close, is the effect of those 20 some extra walks on OBP or OPS that big of a difference maker? I know it's better, but that much?!

[bobmc]

Seeing that at the jewelry kiosk, SG got wood!

[NCRaven]

I want to say that it consistently allow week hitters, ie. Wood and McKenry, to have good at bats, then I remember our pitchers are hitting close to .500. Having said that, it is piss poor that you allow the bottom of a National League batting order to abuse you this way.

[pell021]

This is infuriating. 7-8-9 with pathetic averages and Britton lets them the first two on. Yet another example of Orioles Baseballs the last 13 years.

[scOtt]

Ugh! Early game and then almost an hour to do Windows™ updates...

[Aglets]

Given that everything except walks seems pretty close, is the effect of those 20 some extra walks on OBP or OPS that big of a difference maker? I know it's better, but that much?!

Their offensive WARs are pretty close.

McCutchen has an offensive WAR of 2.7.........Jones's is 2.1.

It's the defensive side that is really different.

McCutchen has a dWar of 1.4. Jones's is -1.6 .

On the surface that seems pretty harsh........saying that Jones has cost us about 1.5 games on defense compared to a replacement level CFer.....but that's what it says.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Given that everything except walks seems pretty close, is the effect of those 20 some extra walks on OBP or OPS that big of a difference maker? I know it's better, but that much?!

Their offensive WAR is actually pretty close: 2.1 for Jones, and 2.7 for McCutchen (if I'm remembering right from when I checked). But McCutchen has a 1.4 defensive WAR, while Jones's is negative.

So your analysis actually was pretty solid, based only on offense - they're similar but McCutchen has a slight edge, porbably because of walks.

[scOtt]

Big out!