Loading ...In the same vein as Jim’s post, John Erardi had a must-read article recently in the Northern Kentucky edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Just great stuff:
Dunn has a career .380 on-base percentage. That’s good for 20th among active big-league players with 3,000 or more plate appearances.
Dunn is one of only 14 players to drive in 90 or more runs in each of the last four seasons.
Dunn is one of only 10 players to score 90 or more runs in each of the last four seasons. The only other players on the RBI/runs scored lists are Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols, David Ortiz. Miggy Cabrera and Bobby Abreu.
In career walk-off home runs, Dunn is tied with Albert Pujols, A-Rod and Chipper Jones with seven. Among active players, only Vladimir Guerrerro, David Ortiz and Jim Thome have more walk-off home runs than Dunn. Every hitter ahead of Dunn has at least 700 more plate appearances – and in most cases, 1,000 more.
Of Dunn’s 270 career home runs, 54 (or 20.0 percent) have come in what is known as “high leverage” situations. That’s a better rate than David Ortiz (18.1 percent), Manny Ramirez (19.5 percent), Lance Berkman (17.0 percent), and Griffey (17.8 percent) … and anybody else except Pujols (20.9%).
About 43 percent of Dunn’s homers have either tied the game or given the Reds the lead. That’s a better rate than A-Rod or Ramirez.
I apologize for all the numbers. But the numbers are who Dunn was here … and who he will be elsewhere. If you are not into numbers, you are probably not into Dunn.
The point: When it comes down to numbers, Dunn wasn’t the one to blame for the last eight years.
The blame belongs to the owners. They didn’t provide him with the supporting cast that would have driven his numbers even higher
Read the whole thing. It’s worth your time.
But he’s slow, fat, can’t catch a fly ball, eats his own boogers, doesn’t wash his hands after he pees, strikeouts to much, pushes old women down, hates babies, sleeps late…
Ok, I give up. The Reds are fools!
Excellent post. I knew about the walk-off home runs. The high percentage of clutch home runs confirms a perception I’ve had all these years.
So am I to understand the Cincy Enquirer wouldn’t even print this in the Ohio edition? Is it for fear that Daugherty’s column would look all the more stupid? (not that Daugherty needs help from anybody to look stupid)
No, Erardi published this as his regular “Up The Bit” column that appears in NKY editions. It’s usually (but not always) about Kentucky sports, which are fairly ignored in the various Ohio editions.
If you are not into numbers, you are probably not into Dunn.
That’s as concise and dead-on as it gets.
He also leads all LF in errors, and has the 2nd worst Fielding % of all active left fielders with more than 100 games at that position.
Its one thing to score runs, its another to keep the other team from scoring. I’ll take a good defender that hits singles at a clip of .250ish over a home-run slugger every day of the week.
How many runs has Adam Dunn cost with his glove?
not that many.
You can’t use errors and fielding percentage to understand the defensive value of a player. Errors are sooo subjective and fielding percentage doesn’t tell the whole story because of that.
Bill James has come up with pretty good fielding measures as has a few other guys (I can’t remember what they’re called), but I think Dunn has been slightly below average for his career.
He has definitely produced way way way more runs than he has cost with his glove
In the Dayton Daily News (I think)
Adam Dunn denied that he wants that much money.
Adam Dunn was not pleased when he heard Bronson Arroyo told the media Dunn would seek a $110 million to $125 million contract as a free agent.
And he denied it.
“I don’t know where that number would come from,” Dunn said. “False information, that’s all I can say. That makes me look like a jackass. You never hear players talking about money. I don’t think about the offseason. Me and my agent don’t even talk about numbers.”
But he’s slow, fat, can’t catch a fly ball, eats his own boogers, doesn’t wash his hands after he pees, strikeouts to much, pushes old women down, hates babies, sleeps late…
Don’t forget he gets blitzed at Riverbend concerts according to people who attend.
He also leads all LF in errors, and has the 2nd worst Fielding % of all active left fielders with more than 100 games at that position.
Interesting to note that Jay Bruce is only .005 above him and have only three less errors in just slightly more than half the games.