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Found June 02, 2009 on Simon On Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Evan Longoria,  David Ortiz
TEAMS: Tampa Bay Rays,  Boston Red Sox

The website FanGraphs provides many new statistics, from plate discipline stats, to replacement level stats to, to win probability added, etc. One of my favorite stats is dollar amount a player would make in free agency. So the current leader for fielders is Evan Longoria, and he would be worth $14.6 million dollars in the market. So what would Mr. Ortiz deserve if he was in the open market right now? $-5.2 million dollars. Yep, he would have to pay someone over $5.2 million dollars for him to add any value to a team in free agency. *If you have a few minutes and like stats, seriously play around in FanGraphs for a bit.
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