The worst season on record is Jim Leavy's -3.9 in 1933 – in 567 plate appearances. If Kevin Newman continued this pace in the same amount of plate appearances he would shatter the record with a -5.8.
The worst season on record is Jim Leavy's -3.9 in 1933 – in 567 plate appearances. If Kevin Newman continued this pace in the same amount of plate appearances he would shatter the record with a -5.8.
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Thanks for posting this. Insanity that I’m looking at
Bro tryna give Juan Lagares a run for his money
Is Zack Cozart busy?
Just noting here that obviously there are worse players in the MLB this season (Hunter Renfroe for instance has -1.5 in only 108 PA) and certainly there have been far worse players in the past century. Players on this sort of pace don’t stick around for long, so their overall damage is usually limited.
Except for Ron Washington’s Angels, where Kevin Newman gets at bats that could be going to our top prospect.
He was the very first one to be signed in the off season, too. Make that make sense. What a horrible miscalculation.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/woodbr01.shtml
Brandon Wood’s 2010 specifically https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=woodbr01&t=b&year=2010
TIL Anthony rendon has a higher bWAR than Kevin Newman this year
Reminds me of that half season where Kole Calhoun was just so awful to start the season he was like the 3rd worse of all time.
Get this man in the starting lineup
He’s like 2024 Brandon Drury if I bought him from Wish…during the worst of the Tariff hikes.
Well at least now I have something to root for