2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

I will regret this egging on, but I also can't resist. Please, oh wise one, tell me the stat that calculates value. And remember, the award is not for the BEST player, but MOST VALUABLE. So make sure it distinguishes between those two terms.

 

VORP and WAR, among others, help calculate value.

 

Someone said that it's a subjective award.

Thus, I ask again: What if Jemile Weeks had won it?

Defensible?

 

And I just won't listen, will I?

Haha, all right, this thread has been hiijacked enough. I'll stop fanning the flames.

 

What if Gordon Beckham had won it?

 

ND, will you please explain the difference between WAR and VORP? And the difference between the WAR formulas used by Baseball Reference and FanGraphs? And what one statistic, what one acronym and its corresponding number, is the most important when considering player value?

 

No. It's all readily available on Google.

 

They're all important, and they all screamed Mike Trout was the most valuable player in baseball last season.

 

I don't care what I can find on Google or Baseball Reference or Baseball Prospectus or FanGraphs or SABR (of which I have been a proud member for years) or some blog.

I want you to explain them.

I want you to tell all of us what they mean.

 

Similar to Strasburg, James Shields just isn't a winner. Sure, he pitched eight solid innings today, but the Royals didn't step it up and win until he was out of the game and no longer bringing the team down to his level.

He's now averaging 7 innings per in five starts with a 3.09 ERA, 1.09 WHIP and 32 strikeouts to nine walks. But a 1-2 record. Total looser.

 

For the record, no one here actually, in seriousness, said that Strasburg isn't a winner. I was being a smartass about it because Moddy and some other Nats fans on here are old-school, unabashed sabermetrics haters and I thought it would be fun to turn the tables on them a bit since it was their own guy not picking up wins.

 

I believe WAR, b-r WAR anyway, is calculated by the following formula:
bWAR = (P_{runs} - A_{runs}) + (A_{runs} - R_{runs})

It takes into play baserunning, fielding and hitting.