Sam Miller, OCR: Assessing Vernon Wells’ season so far

With his hallmark thoroughness - spray charts and the works - Sam sketches up six ways to look at Vernon Wells' season so far.

Plenty of Millerisms included, not the least of which is this:

"Last year, Vernon Wells hit .224/.299/.400 away from Rogers Centre. This year, away from Rogers Centre — which is to say, his entire season — Wells is hitting .222/.248/.409. Why, those are virtually the same! I have no idea if this is significant, but it is definitely one way of assessing Vernon Wells’ season".

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so far.

"We are not on an austerity program," Arte Moreno

by thebigtizzle on Jul 15, 2011 6:31 PM PDT reply actions

As in "So far away from performing as was expected" or

“So far from being worth the 86 million he’s being paid”?

A wise man does not need advice and a fool won't take it.

by angelslogic on Jul 15, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions

And it feels...

And it feels like…
Heaven’s so far away.

by Suboptimal on Jul 15, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions

little Orange County punk reference there...nice

by firebird81 on Jul 16, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions

He's not worth the $11 million he's been paid...

so far.

"We are not on an austerity program," Arte Moreno

by thebigtizzle on Jul 15, 2011 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions

The Glass is 1/16th full

The Power of Positive thinking. Nice.

by homercles on Jul 16, 2011 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions

It's just an after-the-fact assessment of value to this point.

Your math, though, I can’t figure out :)

"We are not on an austerity program," Arte Moreno

by thebigtizzle on Jul 17, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions

How about this:

Well’s WAR is .2 according to this. That puts him right up there with the other “reserves.” So far, TR has spent $11M on a “reserve.” Great.

A wise man does not need advice and a fool won't take it.

by angelslogic on Jul 17, 2011 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions

I didnt do any math, its an expression

Is Vernon only going to be paid $11 million the next 3 years as well? The glass looks mostly empty to me on Veron’s expected production per dollar.

I would expect Vernon, no matter how he plays this year, to play worse over the course of the next 3 years simply because he will be older and slower.

If he is paid “$11 million” by the Angels this year, it will make sense for the Angels to give him a “raise” next year by “doubling his salary” to $20 or $23 million or whatever.

by homercles on Jul 17, 2011 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes, those two words were used a few different times. Your point?

by ~MMP~ on Jul 15, 2011 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions

no point.

There’s plenty of baseball left and Vern’s going to be a part of a great season!

"We are not on an austerity program," Arte Moreno

by thebigtizzle on Jul 15, 2011 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I remember johnnyangel101 ripped me a new one for mentioning Wells' road splits earlier this year.

I hope he’s taking it out on Sam now that he’s shown that Wells’ stats away from Rogers Centre last year are roughly identical to his stats away from Rogers Centre now. :)

by Turks Teeth on Jul 15, 2011 10:15 PM PDT reply actions