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Just for the record...Trout should win MVP and it isnt really close


Matt39

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Please explain WPA, WAR and UZR. The nerds have no clear definition.

Have you tried changing positions? Look at A-Gon for the Sox. When they traded Youk and finally took A-GOn out of RF and kept him at 1B, his average got better. And that was RF where you go to hide defensive liabilities. Cabrera was asked to change and he did a good job. Not great, but it is not like he was an abject failure.

Here is what I know, when trailing, Cabrera hit better with RISP and 2 out (.420 vs .286). Simple RISP? Cabrera .356 to .324. Runners On? Cabrera .340 to .306.

All the pro-Trout make it out to be the Angels were not a good team and he led them to cusp of the playoffs. The Angels were supposed to contend. They were supposed to give the Rangers a run for the division title. They started slow and along comes Trout the magical elixir and they started winning it must be him. It also helped the Pujols started hitting. The Angels started playing better.

http://www.fangraphs...x.php/misc/wpa/

http://www.fangraphs...x.php/misc/war/

http://www.fangraphs...phs-uzr-primer/

WPA is the total win probability that a player adds to his team as measured by the likelihood of winning before and after plays he makes.

WAR is a catch-all metric that tries to evaluate all areas of a player's game and weight them accordingly to come up with a number for how many wins a player contributed to his team over a replacement level player (scrub).

UZR uses batted ball charts to see how fielders compare to other fielders fielding similar balls.

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