Jose Guillen received Rookie of the Year votes in 1997 despite putting up -3.3 bWAR. For context, there have only been 10 player seasons in MLB history with -3.0 bWAR or worse.
Jose Guillen received Rookie of the Year votes in 1997 despite putting up -3.3 bWAR. For context, there have only been 10 player seasons in MLB history with -3.0 bWAR or worse.
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negative dwar for his career is -12.4, you wouldve never guessed that if u saw his throw at coors in the 90s.
He impressed with the 1 SB and 17 BB
A low walk rate + bad fielding // range + playing in a high offense era will do that to you. -_-
His basic offensive numbers were comparable to Andruw Jones’s (70-ish RBI, 15-ish HR), and he had the greatest throwing arm most of us had ever seen. Some WFAN callers were calling Alex Ochoa “The New Clemente”, but for a minute there, Guillen looked like he could actually *be that*.
Ozzie Smith did a bunch of backflips, what can I say? When Ozzie Guillen came in, people loved a flashy middle infielder who was otherwise no good.
Back then we though “bWAR” was one of those keys that the smart kids had on their TI school calculators with the little printers.
I’m struggling to see how he ended up with -3.3 bWAR for that season.
Hell, you go to his BBR page, his numbers in 1997 and 1998 are almost *identical* (same HRs, same BA, same OPS with only a .002 shift in how much of that was OBP and how much was SLG), yet in 1998 he only had a -0.1 bWAR.
Tony Womack with 60 sbs and 185 hits and negative bWAR is surprising as well.
I mean, you have 14 unanswered texts, so who are you to judge?
He got votes before bwar even existed.
It was the 90s. he had 14hr and 70 RBI with a decent average and not a crazy k rate. That’s all you needed.