Barfield to the Indians...

[Jeff W]

Can anyone link me to a good sabermetric article that covers the trade? Barfield was a solid, young 2B for us, but I don't know anything about Kouzmanoff or Brown so I can't evaluate the trade.

[KJS]

Not saying I believe them, just throwing it out there.

KJS

[mosdef]

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stadiums affect BABIP

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Not to the tune of .320 vs. 260, which was Barfield's split last year.

[mosdef]

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I can almost guarantee you Barfield hits more homers this year than he did last year assuming he gets 600 PA's.

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Sure, I would agree with that. But it will have more to do with the fact that hitters in general just get better and stronger when they go from age 23 to age 24. But assuming that the generally negative effects of SD's park are reflected in Barfield's 2006 splits without checking the numbers is just stupid.

[Propertarian]

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FWIW Barfield's road numbers are MUCH better than his home numbers.

[/ QUOTE ] On the other hand, his vs. righty/lefty split is just as large:

vs. rhp .266 .299 .376
vs. lhp .331 .378 .587

In other words, he should have been the lesser half of a platoon last year.

[Jack of Arcades]

Platoon splits for righties will regress to about the same for all righties.