It’s hard for me to shit on guys like JETER, RIVERA, POSADA and PETTITE who are products of the Yankee farm system under Gene ‘Stick’ Michael and not simply overpaid free agent freeloaders like Ghey-Rod. I was upset that Ghey-Rod was getting a ring because I felt like he didn’t deserve one since he is such a hump in the postseason.
RAFI ‘StatMan’ KAM pointed me to the Sabermetric value called the OPS+ which all the roto-fantasy GM’s are gaga over. The addition of slugging percentage combined with on base percentage adjusted to the fields a player visits gives you the OPS+. It’s a nifty little stat when you want to generate a value for players like Ghey-Rod. Barry Bonds pwns this statistic along with Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.
Ghey-Rod’s 2009 postseason has been the first one where he hasn’t sucked major ass but he still isn’t the star that some of the other less heralded Yankees were. Players like Jeter, Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui are way cooler under pressure. When I reviewed the Ghey-Rod player card I was surprised to see that his BA (batting average) was over .350 for the playoffs.
Ghey-Rod is finally a World Series champion and I can’t take that away from him. He’ll enjoy the parade up Broadway this year and possibly several more before his career is finished. One of these days I may even come to appreciate his Sabermetric statistics (I doubt that). Meanwhile, the rich keep getting richer. Damn Yankees.
