November 2, 2012

Red Sox, Ortiz Agree To 2/26 Deal

Several sources are reporting that the Red Sox and David Ortiz - who bashed .318/.415/.611 last season - are putting the finishing touches on a 2/26 deal. Various incentives could push the deal to $30 million.

There is no downside to this contract, as it keeps a happy Ortiz in Boston through 2014. Keeping Ortiz in Boston was essential from a public relations standpoint and if the deal is a little high, well, the Punto trade gave the team the necessary payroll flexibility and if they're going to potentially waste a few million, it might as well go to someone like the Large Father.

Gordon Edes posted the following:
• In the past three seasons (2010-2012), he trailed only Miguel Cabrera, Joey Votto, Jose Bautista and Josh Hamilton in on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS).

• In the past three seasons, he trailed only Cabrera, Votto, Bautista, Albert Pujols and Ryan Braun in OPS+, which measures OPS adjusted to a player's home park.

• In the past three seasons, he trailed only Cabrera, Bautista, Hamilton, Votto and Braun in slugging percentage.

• In the past three seasons, he trailed only Bautista, Giancarlo Stanton, Cabrera and Hamilton in isolated power (ISO), which measures the percentage of extra-base hits a player has.

11 comments:

FenFan said...

Great news!

Tom DePlonty said...

Last week, for some unfathomable reason, I spent a while listening to WEEI, and it seemed like every other caller was down on Ortiz (whiner, clubhouse cancer, only really plays in contract years, etc. etc.) and down on making a deal with him (more of the same crap that got us into trouble in the first place Crawford Lackey Gonzalez JD Drew blah blah blah).

Meanwhile, on SoSH - where you wonder if they ever saw a deal they actually liked - practically everybody was saying yeah, it's going to be a slight overpay, fine, we need the bat, get it done.

I think one loses IQ points listening to EEI but maybe it is possible to regain them over time by avoiding any further exposure.

Jere said...

"I think one loses IQ points listening to EEI but maybe it is possible to regain them over time by avoiding any further exposure."

Have made it since early July without flipping it on once. It's a different and beautiful world without it. Now if only we can pull Maxwell Horse outta there!

laura k said...

Now if only we can pull Maxwell Horse outta there!

We need an intervention.

"What, you don't want to be a Polar Bear anymore? It's too cold for you?"

Kathryn said...

Polar bear club!! That was just on the other night--always funny.

Re WEEI: I was excited several years ago to find an app for my phone that allowed me to listen live to any radio station. I thought, "Great, I'll listen to WEEI as I go to sleep every night." It took about two days for me to never go back. Same reason I don't read the online comments in the newspaper...crazy people.

laura k said...

It took about two days for me to never go back. Same reason I don't read the online comments in the newspaper

Because you value your sanity?

allan said...

CHB's column today is like Mad-Libs. He's got the same 3 or 4 insults he always uses and constructs a column around them:

"My skull almost imploded when I read stat geek reaction to the Gold Glove Awards. The sun-starved number crunchers go ballistic when anyone renders an opinion that contradicts data manufactured by Bill James and his minions. In his well-crafted "Keeping Score" column, the New York Times' Benjamin Hoffman wrote, "the coaches and managers, charged with identifying the best fielders at each position got things mostly right this season." But fanboys are not happy with the selection of Adam Jones over Mike Trout as the American League's best center fielder. According to the vaunted "Fielding Bible Awards" Trout was statistically far superior. He had more DRS (defensive runs saved). Hoffman concluded, "Now Trout will have to wait and see if traditional thinking will also keep him from the MVP." Wow. Apparently, stupid ballplayers and managers — the people actually on the field — are as clueless as lodge-member baseball writers to still think RBIs are meaningful. Will they never understand defensive metrics and Wins Above Replacement?"

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CHB calls Keeping Score well-crafted. He clearly does not realize those writers use advanced stats like FIP and WAR, too! Moron.

wilson said...

If there were a metric to measure hackic acuity, say Columns Rendered Absolutely Pointless or CRAP, Olde Dan would rate very high.

Tom DePlonty said...

Now that the deal is done, Ortiz fires back at BV.

Maxwell Horse said...

Hey, people mentioned me!

For me, listening to WEEI (or going to Boston.com) comes down to the choice of, "Do I completely boycott all media coverage of something, or do I wallow in the depressing idiocy of the masses?" I guess regarding WEEI I have gone with option B.

Sadly, this seems to be a choice regarding a lot of stuff these days. I literally haven't watched TV, except Sox games, for years now. Pretty sad, as I kind of miss it. Then when I wonder if I should "go back," I'll catch a dead-neon-fluorescent clip of "The View" or some hideous MSNBC clip playing on the wall-mounted LCD screen in a doctor's waiting room; or catch the tail end of some shitty reality TV show on a major network before a weekend game, in which everyone acts like an ass and looks like plastic and metal ... and I realize there is no going back. The home planet has been destroyed.

I'll bet it's a shock the direction I took my post in during that last paragraph.

laura k said...

Was it a test to see if we were still reading?