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Dr. D: Wow, Nick Franklin has 3 hits and 5 total bases in only 10 PA's so far. A .500 AVG, that's a nice start.
SABRMATT: HOO HAW HAW HAAAWWWWWWW! Doc, would you PLEASE do your homework or else just stop using stats on this blog. Anybody with half a brain can see that Franklin's batting average is .182.
Nobody hits .500 in baseball. In fact, fangraphs publishes the leaders and in 2012, the leader was Buster Posey -- he's a catcher for the Giants -- and he batted only .336. In fact the best batting average since WWII was .401, so for you to say that Franklin is batting .500 in his first two weeks ... well, your naivete is breathtaking.
Dr. D. Matt, sometimes I forget why we have such a beautiful relationship. Also, thank you for all the incognito M's personnel that you've chased off my blog over the years.
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John Dewan Total Runs
In this article on WBC-san, we commented offhand on Iwakuma's Total Runs standing. We compared Total Runs to WAR, which is not a good comparison.
Matt rejected the comparison for the reason that Dewan's totals "have to be prorated." They are not. Iwakuma had +51 runs saved, per Dewan's metric, as of May 30, 2013. But in the future, Matt, we'll thank you to understand a stat before commenting on it. Drive home safely.
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Total Runs, however, is a stat that does not compare players to REPLACEMENT LEVEL; it compares them to zero.
Replacement level is, per Fangraphs' assumption, worth about +20 runs per year -- or about +7 runs so far this season. So, in theory, you would subtract 7 runs from those original totals to get WAR. Which would still leave Iwakuma at over 4 WAR already this year.
