Well... First and foremost i have been spending a fair amount of time taking alook at not just at his stats but the overall contributions to the teams.
Alot of people were thinking that Michael Young would be the next big move after *cough*bustmove*cough* Matt Holliday's trade to Oakland.
Michael Young has been a permenant fixture within the Rangers infield since 2001. In which they have finished - With his WPA/Cluth performance (The deffinitions of WPA & Clutch )
'01 - 73 W - 4th Place WPA -0.59 Clutch Performance -0.11
'02 - 72 W - 4th Place WPA -2.48 Clutch Performance -1.20
'03 - 71 W - 4th Place WPA -1.56 Clutch Performance -1.11
'04 - 89 W - 3rd Place WPA 2.25 Clutch Performance 1.24
'05 - 79 W - 3rd Place WPA 2.11 Clutch Performance -0.30
'06 - 80 W - 3rd Place WPA 2.36 Clutch Performance 1.72
'07 - 75 W - 4th Place WPA 2.29 Clutch Performance 1.47
'08 - 79 W - 2nd Place WPA -0.96 Clutch Performance 0.90
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His stats have no influenced his teams productivity as far as a season long capacity goes. He maybe a third basemen but can he put up those numbers he put up three years ago? Probley not ... not to mention i see him as a defensive liability.
Yes he won a Gold Glove last year. But there are many arguments on weather he really deserved it. see here but as Dave Cameron put in the post above he has a steady UZR in the negative...
'08 -5.8
'07 -13.1
'06 -5.2
'05 -26.9
'04 -24.4
what is UZR? ... UZR (ultimate zone rating): The number of runs above or below average a fielder is in both range runs and error runs combined....see here for more info on defensive
statistics.
Defensively he's gotten better over the years, but traditional once a player reaches the age of 30 they are set for an upcoming decline in their numbers. At the age of 32 i can't see him ever break even for the season in UZR. So at best he's a below average fielder....
With all that said he's only been an All-Star once, he has hit a +20 home runs but that was about 4 years ago... his hitting has been on a decline for the past three years.
Maybe at his prime of 2004 or 05 he would have been an league top 10 SS... but now at third i wouldn't even give him a top 30 spot.
Am i being too hard on him???? wait til i get to Jeter...
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