Sunday, February 19, 2006

Yurendell De Caster

Is he making this team? When you read about his winter play, you have to be rooting for him. He sounds like a super-Mackowiak.

And I wonder if & how it's true that versatility tends to hurt a player's statistics. I certainly believe that statistics do not wholly express a player's ability, and that one player in different situations will produce different rate stats at the plate. How would versatility depress slugging percentage, for example? In Mackowiak's case, it led the manager to start him in centerfield, which he obviously could not handle well enough to have good at-bats between innings.

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