Not for any particular reason really.

For a second I thought the 2009 Mariners led the AL in wOBA until I realized the labels were below the graphs, not above.

And judging by these graphs, I’m going to assume the 2001 team was pretty solid.

I do not miss the epic meltdowns from Ayala, Sloccumb and Mesa.

Save for the last graph, no labels, no tick marks, and no units.

IIRC – they were first in MLB in DER, 1st in OPS, and third in SLG.

Gillick was always an old school guy – he was pretty openly caustic about Micheal Lewis and, by extension, the whole numeric analysis crowd. But coming from a scouting basis, he did know how to put together a winning team.

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It’s always seemed to me that one aftermath of the Gillick era was that Lincoln and Armstrong seemed to buy into Gillick’s philosophies, not recognizing that Gillick was almost a unique master at what he did. (Terry Ryan and Gillick seem to me to stand apart in that regard. And I’m deliberately setting aside Gillick’s attitudes about drafting, as that isn’t germane to this point.) When Lincoln and Armstrong hired Bavasi, they were seeking Gillick 2.0, and they were totally confident that in Bavasi they had found what they were looking for.

One note – “Offence.”