"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"- Tom Waits
League average is also a bit of a misnomer because it's based off aggregate stats of the whole leagur. Phillips was 92nd in wRC+ last year. So basically he was better than half the league offensively.
What?
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.asp...17,d&page=5_30
Phillips was 122nd in WRC+ out of 146 qualified players.
2015, he had an fWAR of 2.7
Last year, only 0.9 but caused my an anomalous and uncharacteristic bad defensive year.
last 5 years of defensive stats for BP:
DEF: 10.8, 10.9, 9.9, 4.1, - 0.4
UZR: 8.6, 8.7, 8.1, 2.0, -2.1
DRS: 11, 1, 6, 4, -7
he appears to be declining to me
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"- Tom Waits
Braves1976 (02-12-2017)
no this is a misreading of the stats. 100 is average, any number below 100 is below average (and the same reverse) a 92 wRC+ is 8% below average for the year. Even among second baseman for the last 4 years BP was 26th in wRC+ among 43 guys with at leas 1000 PA's at 2b during that time.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"- Tom Waits
thethe, you don't have to bend over backwards to defend every move. Just call it what is is,
a bad offensive player who was also bad on defense last year, but at least has the chance to be good there... Is that an upgrade over what we had? Probably not, but there is at least a little upside potential with defense
Braves1976 (02-12-2017)
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The Brandon Phillips trade is complete, and he's now the new #Braves 2B
The Chosen One (02-12-2017)
no, that's only compared to hitters that qualified for the batting title by plate appearances.
relative to the entire league in 2016 (omitting guys with tiny sample sizes I will go to 200 PA's as a benchmark) He was 218th out of 353 (and 32nd out of 47 2b with 200 PA's)
he's pretty much not a good hitter anymore.
but look, he cost nothing and might post a 1-1.5 fWAR season, and that has value.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"- Tom Waits
this is how wrc+ works
http://www.fangraphs.com/library/offense/wrc/
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"- Tom Waits