Most Over Hyped Players
Using Google, I decided to find which players were the most over hyped this year.
Warning – This analysis is state of the art and should not be tried by anyone.
First I took all the 36 qualified players that had a negative WAR for the season so far and found how many articles contained the player by using their name, team, 2009 and the word baseball like the following line:
Here are the results of the 36 players rated in 5 different categories depending on the number of articles:
Who? (56.3K and 185K articles): Yuniesky Betancourt, Emilio Bonifacio, Chris Young, Jeff Francoeur, Chris Young, Vernon Wells, Ben Francisco, Brett Myers, Armando Galarraga, David Bush, Jamie Moyer, Chris Davis, Jeff Suppan, Emmanuel Burriss, Brian Giles and Jose Guillen
I think I have heard of him before.(202K and 293K articles): Garrett Atkins, Edgar Renteria, Josh Fields, Jose Lopez, Willy Taveras, Jimmy Rollins and Jordan Schafer
I have heard of him before (308K and 426K articles): Skip Schumaker, Daniel Murphy and Orlando Cabrera
Getting tired of him (793K and 869K articles): Aubrey Huff and Jason Giambi
Please Shut Up (3980K articles): David Ortiz
So after hours of toiling research it is determined that Derick Jeter is the most over hyped player... oh way... sorry ... so used to typing that... David Ortiz is now the most over hyped player in MLB this year (still doesn't sound right without Jeter).
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So a guy who was/is struggling on a team with a huge fanbase has more article written about him than guys who are on less popular teams...
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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jun 20, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm amused that Aubrey Huff is in third.
by R.J. Anderson on Jun 20, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
But if you put “steroids” after the player’s name instead of the team name, Aubrey Huff is way behind Ortiz and Giambi.
by Tom (RFTN) on Jun 20, 2009 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yep.
Plus, some of the O’s fans can get pretty hardcore.
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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jun 20, 2009 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was really wanting to see where Frenchy was at and just posted the results. I was tired of him, but he is not closed to the top.
Jeff Zimmerman - Protecting the world from RBI's and Wins from my mom's guest house.
by Jeff Zimmerman (TucsonRoyal) on Jun 20, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Plus, that would require more people to use their noggins to analyze sports...
as opposed to "OMG, he’s not on roidz anymoar
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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Jun 20, 2009 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dave Bush = Dead Arm
thanks to the bat of Hanley Ramirez
by backtocali on Jun 20, 2009 11:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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