Friday, June 3, 2011

All-Star Voting American League Middle Infield

Let's begin.

Second Base:
1. Howie Kendrick- injured for some of the season, still having a great season.  Averaged WAR: 2.55.  .322/.388/.520/.397.
2. Ben Zobrist- he should probably be on the all-star team as a super-sub just kind of filling in everywhere.  Averaged WAR: 2.  .246/.325/.473/.350.
3. Ian Kinsler- apparently transferred out of Arizona State because he lost the second base job to Dustin Pedroia, according to Michael Schur, aka Ken Tremendous from FireJoeMorgan fame. Averaged WAR: 1.75.  .233/.351/.413/.351.
4. Dustin Pedroia- We are the same size.  Pedroia is about 983098493084 times the baseball player I ever was, if we were walking on the street, we might get confused. If we were facing a 90 MPH fastball, nobody would get us confused. Averaged WAR: 1.65.  .245/.353/.335/.323.
5. Robinson Cano- don't really have a comment here.  It feels like it's going to be a battle between Pedroia and Cano for the starting 2B spot on the American League All-Star team for the next several years.  Averaged WAR: 1.5.  .284/.324/.514/.364.

Shortstop:
1. Alexei Ramirez- I like to watch Alexei play shortstop.  Most Cuban players (I'm stereotyping here) seem to be really fun to watch.  I can't really think of one that is not.  Averaged WAR: 2.3.  .297/.357/.455/.355.
2. Asdrubal Cabrera- I forgot to put him in my last all-star voting update, because his average WAR just dissappeared from my sight from my spreadsheet.  Averaged WAR: 2.05.  .299/.352/.522/.387
3.Jhonny Peralta-I haven't watched him play much this year but according to at least one Fangraphs commenter, his range has really diminished.  Averaged WAR: 2.05.  .314/.373/.535/.386.
4. Yunel Escobar- traded for Alex Gonzalez last year, everything A.A. does turns to magic.  Anything that my AA group does turns to drinking. That's not funny or clever. Averaged WAR: 1.9.  .296/.377/.443/.360.
5. Erick Aybar-The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of California of the United States of North America of the Western Hemisphere of Planet Earth...have a lot of players who seem to be similar, Izturis, Aybar, Kendrick, Callaspo, etc.  if only they still had Brandon Wood.  Averaged WAR: 1.75.  .315/.356/.444/.365.

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