Graph of the Day: Alou Family WAR

by Harry Pavlidis on Jul 23, 2009 12:00 PM EDT in Visuals Above Replacement

The four Alous cover a bit of ground - in terms of years and quality. The dashed lines are the "average" and "replacement leve" HOF markers. No candidates in this clan.

Matty's line includes his 0.1 WAR as a pitcher (two innings) in 1965.

Source: Baseball Projections

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Hmm...

Wonder which baseball family is the best? Aside from the Bonds-s, which wouldn’t be fair considering how much better Barry was than almost every other player…

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by bdalebs on Jul 23, 2009 4:20 PM EDT reply actions

The Hardball Times had something on this recently, let me see if I can find it.

Jeff Zimmerman - Protecting the world from RBI's and Wins from my mom's guest house.

by Jeff Zimmerman on Jul 23, 2009 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Our Dan T actually wrote the article

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/a-family-affair/

Jeff Zimmerman - Protecting the world from RBI's and Wins from my mom's guest house.

by Jeff Zimmerman on Jul 23, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah. Cool, thanks.

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by bdalebs on Jul 23, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Dimaggio brothers

3 maor leaguers, 2 were great

by The_Fan on Jul 23, 2009 5:45 PM EDT reply actions

Dom should get the same recognition as Peskey.

Retire 7 after Drew leaves.

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by bdalebs on Jul 23, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Coincidentally, I was playing with some Win Shares the other day (I know, not the favorite topic around here and found that Jesus Alou was one of the lowest performers compared to expected Win Shares still given a lot of regular time. For his career, he was seven Win Shares Below Bench, despite being an outfielder (harder for an outfielder to be below expected Win Shares). That’s exactly equal to his career WAR, by the way (2.3).

by studes on Jul 23, 2009 8:25 PM EDT reply actions