MLB 09: The Show Team Rankings (Pasta Padre)

[CMH]

Wow at people getting worked up over an overall rating that likely represents a lot more than they are taking into account.

Leading the league in fewest errors allowed does not make a great defense. There are other factors.

I can chug out a slow, fat team that never gets to a ball and therefore never commits an error all season. Would that make them a great defense?

Oh well, people always overreact when it comes to ratings.

[wwc18]

i love how oakland is ranked 20th in pitching but had one of the lowest ERA's in baseball. i can see the batting ranking being low b/c they have no offense, but 26th overall? and putting the mariners in front of them....

[Senor_Herbatron]

Not going to bother reading through 9 pages but Russell stated over on MM that these weren't set in stone and in fact they changed a few things with certain teams.

[PYA-MUSTANG86]

The Mariners should be ahead of the Rays. In defense anyways. We have two potentially three gold glovers, and let's not forget the M's hold the record for longest streak with at least 1 gold glover. Every year since 1990 we have had 1 or more gold glover. Ichiro and Beltre won it last year. And Betancourt has a chance to win it this year at SS.

[MurphDogg]

I found this interesting. Baseball Prospectus projects the Orioles to score the third most runs in the majors (tied with the Brewers). They arrived at this projection using the same data on individual players that the MLB '09 producers used to project them as having the worst offense in the majors. I am not saying that they will finish third in the majors in runs but I will eat my hat if they finish in the bottom five.

[scooteristkai]

Already 9(!!!) pages of Team Ranking trash talk?! And you guys are expecting a group of ,let´s say 5 devs who do the rankings, make it perfect for everyone???

I heard one guy talk about player X and what a last half of year he had last season... if they would base it on only a half year those rankings would look ridiculous

Let´s just say it is not an easy job doing ratings for so many players and relax and use the editor.

[CWSpalehoseCWS]

Quote: Originally Posted by JermaineDye05

The Tigers AND Royals better than the White Sox?? We'll see how that pans out when the season starts. I understand though. Considering a lot of the Sox starting this year have had little to no experience, everyone is underrating the pitching extremely IMO.

That's what I was thinking.