I know the Yankees' team offense is off-the-charts awesome, what with leading all of MLB in runs, home runs, OBP, SLG and OPS, but it's hard not to see Adam Dunn's 6th-best-in-MLB .976 OPS and wonder "what if?"
I know most people will scoff and say "But Adam Dunn only strikes out and therefore isn't a team player bladdy-blah-blah-blah," and "he doesn't have a position" and "who on the Yankees would he have displaced?" Now I'm certainly not saying I'm disappointed with the team's offensive output. And these are all valid questions to which I don't have a good answer to. But the greedy home runs and walks-loving bastard in me can't help but ponder the awesomeness that could have been Adam Dunn plopped in the middle of this fantastic 2009 Yankee lineup.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Just imagine if we had Adam Dunn
by
Larry Koestler
Labels:
2009 Yankees,
Adam Dunn,
OPS,
Sabermetrics
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