Yesterday’s “Stat of the Day” at Baseball Prospectus was this gem:
STAT OF THE DAY
Bottom 5 2006 NL Starting Second Basemen, by PECOTA
Projected VORPPlayer, Team, Projected VORP
Tony Womack, CIN, -10.6
Dan Uggla, FLO, 0.5
Luis Gonzalez, COL, 9.2
Junior Spivey, SLN, 10.3
Jose Castillo, PIT, 12.0
Yes, folks, something called Dan Uggla is worth 11 runs more than Tony Womack. And Womack is projected to be more than ten runs worse than a replacement player.
Sheesh.
Awesome!!!
(sarcasm is hard to convey in written text so to avoid any confusion, I am being quite sarcastic.)