Career History of Jays Starting 9(ish)
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:34 pm
So I have lots of nerdy spreadsheets and as I was messing about I realized a sort could show something kind of cool (well that's a pretty liberal use of the word, but nevertheless).
So here are two pics (too big to screencap at once) of the 10 Jays likely to be in the starting lineup (Thames and Snider is why it's 10) and all their professional (minor and major) seasons, grouped by year. It's just a neat way to see who was still getting drafted when someone else was breaking into the bigs, etc... Bold lines are MLB seasons (MLB 1,2,3 are the first 3 years in the league. arb1,2,3 are years 4 through 6), italicized lines are call-up years (split between majors and minors) and regular are just minor league seasons. If there are MLB stats, I didn't split the stats to include the minors for that year (except for PA so you can see how much they played). One last, most of the minors PA numbers for the older guys with long years of MLB experience are actually ABs because I had to get stats from the baseball cube instead of fangraphs.
Anyway, take a look:
If you didn't notice, I'll tell you here, there are a couple goofs. split stats are totally inconsistent in when I show and don't, and somehow Arencibia has an extra "n" in his name. Probably more, but I noticed those before I uploaded and was too lazy to change them.
Two weirdest things, to me, on this list: Bautista in 2004 getting totally jobbed by the rule 5 draft (and getting traded like 95 times), and the Blue Jays really just being jerks with Travis Snider in 2008.
So here are two pics (too big to screencap at once) of the 10 Jays likely to be in the starting lineup (Thames and Snider is why it's 10) and all their professional (minor and major) seasons, grouped by year. It's just a neat way to see who was still getting drafted when someone else was breaking into the bigs, etc... Bold lines are MLB seasons (MLB 1,2,3 are the first 3 years in the league. arb1,2,3 are years 4 through 6), italicized lines are call-up years (split between majors and minors) and regular are just minor league seasons. If there are MLB stats, I didn't split the stats to include the minors for that year (except for PA so you can see how much they played). One last, most of the minors PA numbers for the older guys with long years of MLB experience are actually ABs because I had to get stats from the baseball cube instead of fangraphs.
Anyway, take a look:
If you didn't notice, I'll tell you here, there are a couple goofs. split stats are totally inconsistent in when I show and don't, and somehow Arencibia has an extra "n" in his name. Probably more, but I noticed those before I uploaded and was too lazy to change them.
Two weirdest things, to me, on this list: Bautista in 2004 getting totally jobbed by the rule 5 draft (and getting traded like 95 times), and the Blue Jays really just being jerks with Travis Snider in 2008.