Uh, oh. Pirates GM is smart!

[sbrylski]

They had this up on FJM.com:

 

Q. The Pirates upper management has widely ignored OBP (on base percentage) in the past. How important will OBP be in player evaluation under your leadership?

-- Eric S., Pennsboro, W.Va

 

New Pirates GM Neal Huntington: We are going to utilize several objective measures of player performance to evaluate and develop players. We'll rely on the more traditional objective evaluations: OPS (on base percentage plus slugging percentage) , WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched), Runs Created, ERC (Component ERA), GB/FB (ground ball to fly ball ratio), K/9 (strikeouts per nine innings), K/BB (strikeouts to walks ratio), BB%, etc., but we'll also look to rely on some of the more recent variations: VORP (value over replacement player), Relative Performance, EqAve (equivalent average), EqOBP (equivalent on base percentage), EqSLG (equivalent slugging percentage), BIP% (balls put into play percentage), wOBA (weighted on base average), Range Factor, PMR (probabilistic model of range) and Zone Rating.

[Team Canada]

I think you mean FJM.com? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Unless FatterThanJoey has his own site now...

[sbrylski]

I think you mean FJM.com? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Unless FatterThanJoey has his own site now...

Hehe, whoops!

[1992casey]

I'd argue against using a handful of those stats (Range Factor in particular), but the fact that Neal is able to rattle them off like that would seem to be cause for concern.

[sbrylski]

I'm guessing the Pirates are going to start looking like the A's in the next few years. They'll be full of good defensive, slow on the basepaths, high OBP guys.

[TooLiveBrew]

This is not good news. We can only hope that this is a puppet of Billy Beane put in place to topple the Pirates franchise, once and for all. Any GM that calls OPS & the like "the more traditional objective evaluations" is more new-school than we need our opponents' GMs to be. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[bball123h2]

If I'm Jack Wilson, I'm packing my bags now.