Reminiscing

Or, how Dan Uggla became one of the best second-basemen in baseball...

I was looking back at some old comments today and found some stuff that, in retrospect, is pretty cool.

For one this  little seemingly innocuous post seemed to portend nothing.  Especially not an All-Star

Later, during Spring Training, Wiggins put up this post talking about how the Spring numbers were too good to be true.  Well, he was mostly right (Abercrombie has been a nightmare and Hammer is not hitting .500 anymore).  In two notable cases, though, player's stats have been better than their seemingly gaudy status at that time.

Dan Uggla        AVG    OBP   SLG    OPS  
        Spring:  0.323, 0.333, 0.484, 0.817     
        Season: 0.311, 0.368, 0.519, 0.887     
Difference in OPS = +0.07

Miguel Cabrera
        Spring:  0.303, 0.471, 0.375, 0.817     
        Season: 0.342, 0.434, 0.571, 1.005     
Difference in OPS = +0.159

Given those numbers, I can now laugh when I read "Dan Uggla may not be a shoo-in at second base."

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