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July 29, 2005
Has Giambi Returned to His Former Greatness?
Lots of bloggers picking up on improvements in Jason Giambi's game.
Let’s look at offensive winning percentage (OWP) to see why this is true. It is a stat developed by Bill James that tells us the winning percentage a team would have with 9 identical hitters if the team allowed the league average number runs per game. Giambi’s OWP’s in both 2000 (.832) and 2001 (.846) are both in the top 100 of all time (actually they are both in the top 84). How many players in baseball history have had back to back seasons with an .800+ OWP? Not many, just 23. And all of them are in the Hall of Fame except Giambi, Barry Bonds, Joe Jackson and Pete Browning (one of the best hitters of the 19th century who probably deserves to be in the Hall). Since I am using data from the Lee Sinins Sabermetric Encyclopedia, OWP is also adjusted for park effects.
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Posted on July 29, 2005 08:42 PM by barry 322.
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