someone please explain the streakiness in these stats. he deserves all the cash he gets. not very many second baseman with these stats. what position is he playing for the Cubs ?
Alfonso Soriano Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
Looks like a solid and underated player to me, but frankly the salaries paid are outrageous even though I like baseball.
This guy is not underated. This guy is a superstar. You don't pay underated players the money this guy is going to get. If this guy helps the cubs win a world series he will own Chicago. They will forget all about Michael Jordan.
Miren, mi gente, end-of-season stats are one thing, day-to-day production are another. And I've been watching Soriano since his SS days as a double-A player under the Yankees unbrella - he is streaky, almost as streaky as Carlos Beltr?n.
End-of-season numbers suffer from the same ills as career numbers: every now and then, some regional sports reporter will ask why Nolan Ryan never won a CY award, since his career numbers are astronomical. I think they just like to see their stuff in print.
Hey, Cleef, in my best Oaklandish, where you be at?
Hey, Cleef, in my best Oaklandish, where you be at?
hmm resentment ? is that because people can't be a star ? maybe they need a self esteem class. "streaky" didn't get him 138 million, stats did. otherwise he'd still be a double-a player under the yankees farm system....
I didn't call him streaky because of resentment. One of my all-time favorite baseball players, Eric Davis, was very streaky. Clyde Drexler, my all-time fave basketball player, was very streaky. Jim Thome puts up great numbers, but the "experts" consider him very streaky.
The comment about how much he was making was made by MQ; I commented on the fact that sports figures receive criticism, but movie stars do not. I actually think is much harder to play a sport at that level, than to be become an Oscar-winning actor.
I want him to succeed at all times, except when the game is on the line and he's playing against Sean Casey. In fact, I want them all to succeed, unless they play against Cincy or Detroit, and the latter only because of Casey.
Movie stars do not get criticism??? Have you read some movie reviews. If the movie sucks the star will get critisized big time. And if the movie is a flop it will change the outcome of the next movie contract. Comparing acting with playing baseball or any sport for that matter is comparing apples and oranges.
Back to topic I was getting the impression that by using the word streaky to discribe Soriano you meant he was not all that, but you have clarified what you meant.
I wouldn't feel all that comfortable touting someone that finished 91st in MLB in on base percentage - as a leadoff man - for a team that finished 5th.Mi hermano he can be as streaky as he wants with 46 homers and slugging .560, oh and on a team that finished 5th.
hmm resentment ? is that because people can't be a star ? maybe they need a self esteem class.