tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84318642011-04-21T15:55:20.501-07:00This blog was created solely for me to post one of my huge essays on. I want to call it my manifesto only because it seems like it'd be cool to have a manifesto. Only read this if you like statistics, if you just want story its probably not for you.Marc Normandinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8431864.post-1095878634681783272004-09-22T11:40:00.000-07:002005-03-30T07:32:20.860-08:00

Section I: Problems and SolutionsWhile reading ESPN.com baseball writer and author Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Lineups, I happened upon the Colorado Rockies section. Rob’s book details every franchise’s all-time (two of them), all-rookie, single season, homegrown, traded-away, as well as the best and worst defensive teams. For Colorado, the lists are short all the way around. This is because

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Section II: The Rockies SuperstarsI am basically using these four players so that pre-Coors, Coors, and post-Coors numbers can be analyzed. The four players are, in order of position: Andres Galarraga, (1B), Vinny Castilla (3B), Dante Bichette (LF), and Ellis Burks (CF). Next, I will present Castilla, Bichette, Galarraga and Burk’s career numbers unadjusted by team (well relevant numbers anyway;

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This brings me to Todd Helton and Larry Walker. Neyer does not believe that Walker should be considered a Hall of Famer because he has only played 150 games in a season once, statistics notwithstanding (Coors affected, but I will get to that.) I am more on the plane of thought that if he plays 130 games a year and puts up the numbers he does than why not let him in? Kirby Puckett was allowed in

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