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i just added up total VORP for the lineups, it's basically dead even, which surprised me. it's skewed because ellsbury's VORP is as a LF, when he's more valuable in CF, but still, i didn't think it would be that close.

VORP doesn't weight recent performance, which i think needs to be considered here - specifically regarding manny and drew regressing to their career norms, and, to a lesser extent, how both teams are hitting as a whole.

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VORP is also cumulative; ie playing time factors in. So a guy like Ryan Braun who was off the charts, but didn't play for the whole year, doesn't get a league leading VORP. ditto for Ellbury. Manny also missed a month, which hurts.