Monday, November 30, 2009

Baselining Left Field

One of the common arguments about valuing free agents is the fact that no deal is made in isolation. For every player that a team doesn’t sign, there’s some alternative. It’s almost certainly not an alternative they wanted to exercise and often it’s a substantial downgrade but establishing the baseline performance of that alternative gives us an idea of what the dropoff is. Starting off, we’ll take a quick look at left field.

Future Redbirds

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