Monday, June 1, 2009

Young = crap

Lifted from Gleeman (aarongleeman.com):

....Gomez offsets some of his terrible hitting with an excellent glove, but Delmon Young has been useless on both sides of the ball. In fact, at 12.2 runs below replacement level offensively and defensively he's been the single worst all-around player in the AL through two months. Young has hit .239/.282/.275 in 117 plate appearances, which is good for a .557 OPS. No other corner outfielder in the league with that much playing time has an OPS below .640.Not only has Young failed to make any significant strides at the plate for the third straight season, he's actually regressed from last year's poor performance. Young was one of the most undisciplined hitters in baseball last season, but this time around he's struck out twice as often while drawing even fewer walks. Beyond that his power has gone from bad to non-existent as he's managed just one homer and one double in 109 at-bats while once again ranking among the AL leaders in ground-ball percentage.Believe it or not, being the AL's worst-hitting outfielder only scratches the surface of Young's awfulness because he plays an offense-driven position that's home to many big bats and complements his lack of production at the plate with horrendous defense in left field. On a per-inning basis Young has been the second-worst corner outfielder in the league defensively behind only Jose Guillen and since joining the Twins last year Ultimate Zone Rating has him 23.1 runs below average on defense alone.

5 comments:

Road Zogg said...

I REALLY wish I could argue with this.......

Hey - he went 1-3 against Garza, so head to head, he is better.....right?

hags said...

Delmon must go!

Road Zogg said...

Gomez is not much better, if better at all. Can Kubel succesfully play LF? Then we can go out and get a DH.....

hags said...

Knubel with his Knees???

Arkansas #8 said...

Kubels knees...not a concern.
Even if he didn't have legs he'd be better than Delmon.