Cool feature on Baseball Reference that lets you look at the year-by-year Opening Day lineups for any team.
I realize a lot of fans aren't excited about Ryan Church being our right fielder, but here's the bunch of clowns that have manned the position on Opening Day over the last 14 years, along with their OPS+ for the season (100 = league average, and a starting right fielder should really be above average):
1994 Jeromy Burnitz 79
1995 Carl Everett 110
1996 Butch Huskey 101
1997 Carl Everett 91
1998 Butch Huskey 85
1999 Bobby Bonilla 48
2000 Derek Bell 98
2001 Darryl Hamilton 68
2002 Jeromy Burnitz 80
2003 Jeromy Burnitz 105
2004 Karim Garcia 68
2005 Eric Valent 50
2006 Xavier Nady 102
2007 Shawn Green 104
2 comments:
Bobby Bonilla had a lower OPS+ than Eric Valent? How come Eric's not collecting a cool million a year for the next 20 years?
And Church got some good cuts against a lefty yesterday.
does this just go to show that the mets can't develop a RF? or they don't care about that position?
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