The Worst Team Money Can Buy
Just a friendly reminder that things could always be worse. Here's an entire roster of the worst of the worst MLB FA. (All stats based on last 3 years) (Baseball-reference is the greatest thing ever! that FA-only tool is incredible!)
1. Jeff Davanon, RF: 87 OPS+, 252/350/361 (BA/OBP/SLG)
2. Corey Patterson, CF: 76 OPS+, 254/291/393
3. Rondell White, LF: 89 OPS+, 267/303/416
4. Pedro Feliz, 3B: 81 OPS+ 249/289/423
5. Darin Erstad, 1B: 78 OPS+, 260/316/356
6. Jose Molina, C: 65 OPS+, 242/278/353
7. Miguel Cairo, 2B: 62 OPS+, 248/293/324
8. Neifi Perez, SS: 62 OPS+, 257/280/353
Wow, what a lineup of suck!
Bench:
Paul Bako, C, 40 OPS+, 212/281/249
Robert Fick, 1B, 79 OPS+, 254/325/339
Ramon Martinez, 2B, 59 OPS+, 252/302/312
Abe Nunez, 2B, 65 OPS+, 248/323/313
Jerry Hairson, OF, 62 OPS+, 231/301/323
Lots of utility, but even John Stuart Mill would cry. Fick doesn't get the starting nod because Erstad has played more.
Rotation:
Russ Ortiz, 7-22, 6.94
Eric Milton, 16-27, 5.83
Kip Wells, 17-40, 5.51
Tony Armas, 20-24, 5.29
Mark Redman, 18-29, 5.54
Bullpen:
Armando Benitez, Closer, 4.55
Jorge Julio, SU, 5.14
Jeremy Affeldt, LH SU, 5.20
Jose Mesa, MR, 5.14
Antonio Alfonseca, MR, 5.32
Brian Mohler, Long/Swing, 5.19
Elmer Dessens, Long/Swing, 4.69
Ouch.
I wonder how many games this team would win. It certainly wouldn't cost much, no more than $20 million. It'd definitely be historically bad!
1. Jeff Davanon, RF: 87 OPS+, 252/350/361 (BA/OBP/SLG)
2. Corey Patterson, CF: 76 OPS+, 254/291/393
3. Rondell White, LF: 89 OPS+, 267/303/416
4. Pedro Feliz, 3B: 81 OPS+ 249/289/423
5. Darin Erstad, 1B: 78 OPS+, 260/316/356
6. Jose Molina, C: 65 OPS+, 242/278/353
7. Miguel Cairo, 2B: 62 OPS+, 248/293/324
8. Neifi Perez, SS: 62 OPS+, 257/280/353
Wow, what a lineup of suck!
Bench:
Paul Bako, C, 40 OPS+, 212/281/249
Robert Fick, 1B, 79 OPS+, 254/325/339
Ramon Martinez, 2B, 59 OPS+, 252/302/312
Abe Nunez, 2B, 65 OPS+, 248/323/313
Jerry Hairson, OF, 62 OPS+, 231/301/323
Lots of utility, but even John Stuart Mill would cry. Fick doesn't get the starting nod because Erstad has played more.
Rotation:
Russ Ortiz, 7-22, 6.94
Eric Milton, 16-27, 5.83
Kip Wells, 17-40, 5.51
Tony Armas, 20-24, 5.29
Mark Redman, 18-29, 5.54
Bullpen:
Armando Benitez, Closer, 4.55
Jorge Julio, SU, 5.14
Jeremy Affeldt, LH SU, 5.20
Jose Mesa, MR, 5.14
Antonio Alfonseca, MR, 5.32
Brian Mohler, Long/Swing, 5.19
Elmer Dessens, Long/Swing, 4.69
Ouch.
I wonder how many games this team would win. It certainly wouldn't cost much, no more than $20 million. It'd definitely be historically bad!
posted by Chris Needham at
11:24 AM
5 Comments:
John Stewart Mills. Ha!
By
Anonymous, at 11/06/2007 12:42 PM
I'll give it a shot.
Given decent health, that team wins 55 games. I could go as low as 50.
By
Anonymous, at 11/06/2007 12:48 PM
Julio and Benitez- ex-Orioles I LOVE to see come in to close a game...
By
Anonymous, at 11/06/2007 2:34 PM
Interesting that Cory Patterson makes the all-worst team list. Someone is going to offer him a decent contract, and would not be shocked to see Bowden get in the bidding. He loves "toolsy" OFers, and Patterson always rates very high on the tools list.
By
Anonymous, at 11/06/2007 5:38 PM
Great list Chris.
Unfortunately, I'd expect that at least a few of these guys end up getting primo cash even given their crappy stats.
The problem with baseball's newfound parity is that pretty much everyone follows the same playbook. Sure, we can expect to see a few really stupid teams (cough Reds cough Orioles cough), but nowadays, most teams seem to be making fairly smart decisions which drives the price of retreads like these clowns way higher than it by all rights should be. Really, the moneyball and sabrrmetric revolution have themselves changed the very foundations of the game in fundamental ways, actually altering the market they sought to better analyze. So many teams have learned the lessons of the Braves, Athletics and Indians that it's really killed whatever value free agency used to have while also putting a huge freeze on the trade market.
If that hypothesis is right, the Nats are going to spend a long time wandering in the wilderness before we managed to acquire enough value through small marginal improvements to actually win the division. Plus, we have to perform even better than the other guy who is already well-entrenched with this system. :(
By
Michael Taylor, at 11/06/2007 8:10 PM
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