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Friday, April 23, 2004


Now that manager Felipe Alou wants 3B Pedro Feliz to play everyday, this is the 2004 San Francisco Giants "optimal" lineup:

Position, Name, projected 2004 Value Over Replacement Player
2B Durham 28.8
1B Snow 4.0
CF Grissom 6.1
LF Bonds 105.9
3B Feliz 4.7
RF Tucker 0.3
C Pierzynski 22.5
SS Perez -2.6

You'd think that a team with The Best Hitter Ever, In His Prime would be better than average. But it isn't, because it'd be better to start 6 average players than Bonds and the 5 replacement players named Grissom, Feliz, Snow, Tucker, and Perez.

Put another way, if you replaced Bonds with an average player you'd have about the same production as the 2003 LA Dodgers.


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