Putting together our weekly All-Dud team doesn't involve highly scientific formulas or a room full of statisticians crunching numbers. It's all about the eye test. I look at a player's numbers on the week, and if they make me cringe or begin to feel physically ill, then he's a candidate for inclusion.
OK, maybe that's a stretch—but the numbers don't lie, and for those unlucky enough to make the cut on this week's squad, their stats are downright ugly.
To be sure, slumping players on contenders are viewed more harshly than those on non-contending clubs, so I'm not simply looking for, say, the shortstop with the week's lowest OPS or highest strikeout rate.
But it ultimately comes down to the player and whether or not he earned his previous week's paycheck. Using both traditional and advanced statistics, we can safely say that nobody on the pages that follow did so in Week 21.
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