Aubrey Huff has won the 2008 Silver Slugger award for DH and deservedly so. Before the season, I described Huff as a "hitter in decline" but I was wrong, at least for last year.
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The West Oahu Canefires will play in the Hawaiian League Championship game on Sunday. Oriole prospects haven't had a lot to do with their success (Tim Bascom, for instance, has been horrible) with the bright spot being 3B Tyler Henson hitting .261 with 16 RBI and a team high 25 walks. Adam Loewen plays for the Canefires too. He is hitting .143 with no extra base hits. And he's been hit by a pitch three times in just 8 games. Good!
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Sarasota has hammered out a proposal worth more than $30 million to become the Spring Training home for the Baltimore Orioles after two days of meetings with Oriole officials. The offer has yet to be voted on by the Lee County Commission before the offer is official.
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Former Oriole manager and universal sad-sack Sam Perlozzo has joined the Charlie Manuel's staff with the Philadelphia Phillies. God help them.
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A clip from Dave Sheinin's Nationals Journal blog as the free agent season begins. (The Nationals seem to think they have a legitimate shot at signing Mark Teixeira...oookay...)
*The Nationals' chief competitors might be just up the road in Baltimore. Someone who speaks to Peter Angelos regularly told me that he has never seen him so fixated on a player as he is on Teixeira. Others have told me that Angelos has been asking everyone in baseball what they think of Teixeira.
My educated guess is that the Orioles will end up making the highest bid for Teixeira.
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Song of the Week: Bringing a little country feel into the mix with the excellent alt country band out of Athens, GA, Drive-By Truckers with "Gravity's Gone" Have a nice weekend.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
More BHI Analysis
There is close to nothing going on in the world of the Orioles so...time to look at some more Orioles and discern their Big Homer Index (BHI). What's BHI? It's a made up stat that examines who hits the clutch homer and the homer in "garbage time". Look here if you want to see how I determine the score.
Eddie Murray - 343 Oriole HR
I filtered Eddie's homers to only include his Oriole career, both stints. Eddie only hit solo shots just over 50% of the time which is a pretty good number. And nearly 48% of his homers either tied the game or put the Orioles ahead. Add to that the 7 Game Ending homeruns and his clutch homer stats are stellar. He's right up there behind Brooks Robinson on the BHI scale.
BHI - 469
Brian Roberts - 61 Oriole HR
Roberts' career with the Orioles isn't over...yet. But with the possibility of his exodus from Baltimore, I thought it was as good a time as any to put him under the BHI microscope.
Even though he has only 61 career homeruns, his percentage of Go Ahead and Tying homeruns is a Murray-like 47%. A ton of solo shots but he is a leadoff hitter and has a game winner under his belt. To compare him to another lead-off hitter, Brady Anderson, he actually acquits himself quite well. B-Rob doesn't hit many but he tends to make them count.
BHI - 138
Larry Sheets - 84 Oriole HR
A shooting star, Sheets was a heck of a slugger but had trouble with consistency. However, he didn't hit a ton of solo homers, more than half came with men on base. But only 30% of his homers tied or put the O's ahead and close to 40% came in garbage time. Three walk-off homers bring Larry up to respectability.
BHI - 266
So, the new list...
BHI Leaders - Oriole Career
Brooks Robinson - 495
Eddie Murray - 469
Larry Sheets - 266
Chris Hoiles - 240
Brian Roberts - 224
Cal Ripken - 197
Brady Anderson - 138
Jay Gibbons - 42
If the offseason continues to be this quiet, there will be quite a few more of these posts!
Eddie Murray - 343 Oriole HR
I filtered Eddie's homers to only include his Oriole career, both stints. Eddie only hit solo shots just over 50% of the time which is a pretty good number. And nearly 48% of his homers either tied the game or put the Orioles ahead. Add to that the 7 Game Ending homeruns and his clutch homer stats are stellar. He's right up there behind Brooks Robinson on the BHI scale.
BHI - 469
Brian Roberts - 61 Oriole HR
Roberts' career with the Orioles isn't over...yet. But with the possibility of his exodus from Baltimore, I thought it was as good a time as any to put him under the BHI microscope.
Even though he has only 61 career homeruns, his percentage of Go Ahead and Tying homeruns is a Murray-like 47%. A ton of solo shots but he is a leadoff hitter and has a game winner under his belt. To compare him to another lead-off hitter, Brady Anderson, he actually acquits himself quite well. B-Rob doesn't hit many but he tends to make them count.
BHI - 138
Larry Sheets - 84 Oriole HR
A shooting star, Sheets was a heck of a slugger but had trouble with consistency. However, he didn't hit a ton of solo homers, more than half came with men on base. But only 30% of his homers tied or put the O's ahead and close to 40% came in garbage time. Three walk-off homers bring Larry up to respectability.
BHI - 266
So, the new list...
BHI Leaders - Oriole Career
Brooks Robinson - 495
Eddie Murray - 469
Larry Sheets - 266
Chris Hoiles - 240
Brian Roberts - 224
Cal Ripken - 197
Brady Anderson - 138
Jay Gibbons - 42
If the offseason continues to be this quiet, there will be quite a few more of these posts!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Dunn vs. Teixeira: A Closer Look
Desert O of Weaver's Tantrum suggested that I take a closer look at Teixeira vs. Dunn. There certainly isn't anything else going on as far as the Orioles are concerned...so here it is.
I decided to look at the last four years for the two players. All stats cumulative for the last four seasons and rankings are compiled for MLB OF, 1B and DHs (As an aside, Teixeira and Dunn will both be 29 for the 2009 season.)
The lines for each player for the last four seasons:
Dunn seems lacking from those numbers alone, mostly based on his batting average, an average that is incorporated into the slugging and on-base averages too.
Let's look more closely at one of Dunn's other shortcomings, his strikeouts.
SO
Dunn is the clear leader in strikeouts over the past four years, only Ryan Howard comes close. Teixeira is way down on the list at 14th.
However, if you look at it a different way, the strikeouts aren't so bad. Total outs over the last four years:
Outs
How does Dunn manage to come in under Teixeira? Well, if you strikeout, you don't ground into a double play. But mostly it's the insane walk rate.
BB
Dunn walks a ton which puts him squarely in the 100-100 club every year. He is, if you follow this blog, the kind of player I have a soft spot for. It also increases his value over your typical .250 hitter. He simply does not make a lot of outs.
Oh yeah, he can jack 'em too.
Homeruns
Teixeira is down the list at 139...Dunn holds the advantage in terms of pure power when you take batting average out of the equation as the ISO numbers show.
ISO (Isolated Power)
Next is Runs Created and Extra Bases. Tex is clearly superior here but Dunn is no slouch.
Runs Created
Extra Bases
Who's the better all-around hitter? Teixeira is and I think that's clear. But Teixeira is thought to be looking at contract offers of $23-25 million per year. Dunn, according to most sources, will probably get a deal in the $12-13 million per year range.
Is Teixeira twice as good as Dunn? I don't think so. If you're the Orioles, it's all about value on the free agent market this offseason. Dunn offers some pretty good bang for the buck if you want to avoid the big bidding wars.
I decided to look at the last four years for the two players. All stats cumulative for the last four seasons and rankings are compiled for MLB OF, 1B and DHs (As an aside, Teixeira and Dunn will both be 29 for the 2009 season.)
The lines for each player for the last four seasons:
Teixeira .299/.389/.550
Dunn .254/.381/.524
Dunn seems lacking from those numbers alone, mostly based on his batting average, an average that is incorporated into the slugging and on-base averages too.
Let's look more closely at one of Dunn's other shortcomings, his strikeouts.
SO
Dunn 691
Howard 679
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Teixeira 457
Dunn is the clear leader in strikeouts over the past four years, only Ryan Howard comes close. Teixeira is way down on the list at 14th.
However, if you look at it a different way, the strikeouts aren't so bad. Total outs over the last four years:
Outs
10. Teixeira 1700
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16. Dunn 1656
How does Dunn manage to come in under Teixeira? Well, if you strikeout, you don't ground into a double play. But mostly it's the insane walk rate.
BB
Dunn 449
Burrell 414
Ortiz 402
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.
Teixeira 330
Dunn walks a ton which puts him squarely in the 100-100 club every year. He is, if you follow this blog, the kind of player I have a soft spot for. It also increases his value over your typical .250 hitter. He simply does not make a lot of outs.
Oh yeah, he can jack 'em too.
Homeruns
Howard 175
Dunn 160
Ortiz 159
Pujols 159
Soriano 144
Teixeira is down the list at 139...Dunn holds the advantage in terms of pure power when you take batting average out of the equation as the ISO numbers show.
ISO (Isolated Power)
4. Dunn .279
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11. Teixeira .251
Next is Runs Created and Extra Bases. Tex is clearly superior here but Dunn is no slouch.
Runs Created
3. Teixeira 510
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10. Dunn 459
Extra Bases
4. Teixeira 305
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11. Dunn 273
Who's the better all-around hitter? Teixeira is and I think that's clear. But Teixeira is thought to be looking at contract offers of $23-25 million per year. Dunn, according to most sources, will probably get a deal in the $12-13 million per year range.
Is Teixeira twice as good as Dunn? I don't think so. If you're the Orioles, it's all about value on the free agent market this offseason. Dunn offers some pretty good bang for the buck if you want to avoid the big bidding wars.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Drop Down Menu For Blogger
Drop Down Menu For Blogger as everybody would like it in the blog more enough i have found thousands of people searching it on internet.Then i thought of having an tutorial on it. What is Drop Down Menu ? Its Just and widget where one choose an option and click the menu he like , then new window will open with the option selected. Below is the demo of it.
Now how to make this drop down menu.
Just GO To ,
LAYOUT > ADD PAGE ELEMENT > HTML /JAVASCRIPT
Add the below codes to it and Save It.
<form><select name="menu" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')"
size=1 name=menu>
<option>- Your Title - </option>
<!-- change the links with your own -->
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title One</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title second</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title Third</option>
<option value="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com">blogger widget</option>
</select></form>
* Change the links and text in red according to your blog menu.
You can increase the options in codes to increase your drop down menu links.
Width of drop down menu depends on the length of the titles you using in them.
Bye friends see you tomorrow with my new post
.
Now how to make this drop down menu.
Just GO To ,
LAYOUT > ADD PAGE ELEMENT > HTML /JAVASCRIPT
Add the below codes to it and Save It.
<form><select name="menu" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')"
size=1 name=menu>
<option>- Your Title - </option>
<!-- change the links with your own -->
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title One</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title second</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title Third</option>
<option value="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com">blogger widget</option>
</select></form>
* Change the links and text in red according to your blog menu.
You can increase the options in codes to increase your drop down menu links.
Width of drop down menu depends on the length of the titles you using in them.
Bye friends see you tomorrow with my new post
.
Drop Down Menu For Blogger
Drop Down Menu For Blogger as everybody would like it in the blog more enough i have found thousands of people searching it on internet.Then i thought of having an tutorial on it. What is Drop Down Menu ? Its Just and widget where one choose an option and click the menu he like , then new window will open with the option selected. Below is the demo of it.
Now how to make this drop down menu.
Just GO To ,
LAYOUT > ADD PAGE ELEMENT > HTML /JAVASCRIPT
Add the below codes to it and Save It.
<form><select name="menu" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')"
size=1 name=menu>
<option>- Your Title - </option>
<!-- change the links with your own -->
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title One</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title second</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title Third</option>
<option value="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com">blogger widget</option>
</select></form>
* Change the links and text in red according to your blog menu.
You can increase the options in codes to increase your drop down menu links.
Width of drop down menu depends on the length of the titles you using in them.
Bye friends see you tomorrow with my new post.
Now how to make this drop down menu.
Just GO To ,
LAYOUT > ADD PAGE ELEMENT > HTML /JAVASCRIPT
Add the below codes to it and Save It.
<form><select name="menu" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')"
size=1 name=menu>
<option>- Your Title - </option>
<!-- change the links with your own -->
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title One</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title second</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title Third</option>
<option value="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com">blogger widget</option>
</select></form>
* Change the links and text in red according to your blog menu.
You can increase the options in codes to increase your drop down menu links.
Width of drop down menu depends on the length of the titles you using in them.
Bye friends see you tomorrow with my new post
.
Drop Down Menu For Blogger
Drop Down Menu For Blogger as everybody would like it in the blog more enough i have found thousands of people searching it on internet.Then i thought of having an tutorial on it. What is Drop Down Menu ? Its Just and widget where one choose an option and click the menu he like , then new window will open with the option selected. Below is the demo of it.
Now how to make this drop down menu.
Just GO To ,
LAYOUT > ADD PAGE ELEMENT > HTML /JAVASCRIPT
Add the below codes to it and Save It.
<form><select name="menu" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')"
size=1 name=menu>
<option>- Your Title - </option>
<!-- change the links with your own -->
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title One</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title second</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title Third</option>
<option value="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com">blogger widget</option>
</select></form>
* Change the links and text in red according to your blog menu.
You can increase the options in codes to increase your drop down menu links.
Width of drop down menu depends on the length of the titles you using in them.
Bye friends see you tomorrow with my new post.
Now how to make this drop down menu.
Just GO To ,
LAYOUT > ADD PAGE ELEMENT > HTML /JAVASCRIPT
Add the below codes to it and Save It.
<form><select name="menu" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_blank')"
size=1 name=menu>
<option>- Your Title - </option>
<!-- change the links with your own -->
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title One</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title second</option>
<option value="http://yourlink.com">Title Third</option>
<option value="http://anshuldudeja.blogspot.com">blogger widget</option>
</select></form>
* Change the links and text in red according to your blog menu.
You can increase the options in codes to increase your drop down menu links.
Width of drop down menu depends on the length of the titles you using in them.
Bye friends see you tomorrow with my new post
.
Event - Join us at Scully & Scully, NY
The Wedding Salon's Mini Boot Camp at Scully & Scully, NY.
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Time: 6-8 pm
Place: Scully & Scully
Lela New York's couture wedding invitations and custom luxury invitations will be on display.
For more information visit: http://www.weddingsalon.com
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