http://jonahkeri.com/2009/06/04/let-jay-jaffe-settle-the-issue/ Thu, 03 May 2012 16:45:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://jonahkeri.com/2009/06/04/let-jay-jaffe-settle-the-issue/#comment-1645 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:03:44 +0000 http://jonahkeri.com/?p=1326#comment-1645 [...] it here as well. Back in 2009, Jonah Keri, a former BP colleague and a big JAWS fan, essentially invited me into the discussion, and I responded thusly, with further correspondence from Jonah and Rob [...]

]]> http://jonahkeri.com/2009/06/04/let-jay-jaffe-settle-the-issue/#comment-519 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:25:19 +0000 http://jonahkeri.com/?p=1326#comment-519 Jonah, I’m a little worried about how your Bernie analysis is going to turn out. The two defensive metrics for his era (TotalZone and STATS ZR) really don’t like him, to the tune of -100 runs over his career. Half of that for TZ is due to his arm. I’m thinking he was probably underrated by many non-Yankees based on his bat, but he gives a ton of that away with defense. Unless, of course, you disagree with the two metrics and have a different way of addressing defense?

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