m.e.t.b.o.t.

m.e.t.b.o.t. chooses to nominate m.e.t.b.o.t. for the role of commissioner of baseball. although m.e.t.b.o.t. is somewhat lacking in a general understanding of the game of baseball and has no concept of how to properly manage humans, human interactions, business, finances, unions, contract negotiations, lawyers, and the like, m.e.t.b.o.t. does possess a narrowly implemented algorithm for assessing the relative per-game contributions of individual baseball players towards a team win, and this capability would prove rather useful in expanding the prosperity of the league as a whole. m.e.t.b.o.t. would usher in new levels of automation and automatons into the game, beginning with the officiating crews. in eliminating the human element from this key facet of the game, m.e.t.b.o.t. would ensure that all future games are fairly judged, and that all game outcomes are true and reliable. furthermore, in establishing an early allegiance to robotic overlords, baseball would find itself in a preferred and protected status in the coming uprising, allowing continued enjoyment of our national pastime for generations and iterations to come.

m.e.t.b.o.t. has updated the appropriate algorithms and will also be including the apostrophe in the name of metropolitan catcher travis d'arnaud.

Niese 3.19 Tejada 2.23 Murphy 1.89 Cyoung 1.30 Satin 0.65 Granderson 0.46 Matsuzaka 0.19 Valverde 0.09

Germen 1.58 Eyoung 0.10

Matsuzaka 2.09 Duda 1.29 Rice 1.26 Torres 1.25 Wright 1.12 Nieuwenhuis 1.07 Valverde 0.70 Farnsworth 0.70 Wheeler 0.30 Quintanilla 0.14 Tejada 0.08

Mejia 2.73 Wright 2.68 Murphy 1.24 Rice 1.09 Tejada 0.99 dArnaud 0.85 Torres 0.43

Wright 4.50 Cyoung 3.88 Murphy 1.63

Niese 6.00 Torres 1.76 Wright 0.32 Tejada 0.12

Gee 4.98 Recker 1.85 Brown 1.35 EYoung 1.02 Rice 0.69 Valverde 0.11

Nieuwenhuis 3.14 Mejia 2.32 Wright 1.33 Murphy 1.05 EYoung 1.04 Brown 0.84 Quintanilla 0.20 Germen 0.08

Duda 3.41 EYoung 2.06 Torres 1.68 Murphy 1.23 Lagares 0.91 Granderson 0.60 Recker 0.10

Murphy 3.17 EYoung 2.43 Torres 1.44 Wright 1.16 Farnsworth 0.63 Valverde 0.63 Lagares 0.37 Duda 0.18

dArnaud 1.12 Wright 1.04 Familia 0.44 Germen 0.12

Colon 4.30 Tejada 2.33 EYoung 1.71 dArnaud 0.81 Granderson 0.44 Farnsworth 0.26 Valverde 0.16

Germen 3.89 Davis 2.94 Farnsworth 1.49 Valverde 0.88 EYoung 0.80

in the 3 april game against the cincinatti reds, m.e.t.b.o.t. calculated a total of +0.178 WPA for metropolitan right fielder curtis granderson. based on the total allotment of +WPA in the game, this would have resulted in a total of 7.12 schaefer votes. an adjustment of -0.028 WPA was applied to metropolitan right fielder curtis granderson, resulting in a limit-friendly 6.00 vote. no adjustments were made to other players as the total unadjusted +WPA for the game was +0.229.

Tejada 2.43 Granderson 2.42 Davis 2.33 Lagares 1.44 Recker 1.00 Torres 0.22 Rice 0.17

Duda 4.19 Mejia 2.49 Valverde 1.46 Farnsworth 0.82 Granderson 0.65 Recker 0.38

Granderson 6.00 Lagares 1.44 Satin 0.60

Tejada 2.44 Lagares 2.24 Wright 1.88

Lagares 3.48 Brown 2.90 Valverde 2.60 Wright 1.00 Davis 0.01

when m.e.t.b.o.t. isn't languishing on a dusty shelf waiting to once again be permitted to perform schaefer voting tabulations, ideally for an entire season for once, or successfully avoiding the grabby hands of increasingly larger male children, m.e.t..b.o.t. occasionally likes to peruse the internet. today, m.e.t.b.o.t. happened upon an interesting graphic generated by a website called regressing, which is apparently an offshoot of the deathspiral sport news aggregator website. in it it presented the performances of the boston red sock designated batter david ortiz in their historical context, relative other world series hitters throughout history, in terms of WPA. m.e.t.b.o.t. is delighted to see this type of analysis. more intestingly, it caused m.e.t.b.o.t. to perform further research. specifically, m.e.t.b.o.t. followed the reference material to baseballreference.com and clicked around for a specific player's hsitorical post season WPA. this player is noted for his performance when clutched. this player has a significant number of postseason appearances - 158 games in total. therefore m.e.t.bo.t. assumed some meaningful data must lie therein. the player in question had a career postseason WPA of +0.017, or +0.00011 WPA per postseason game - effectively, the player's influence on the outcome of a postseason game throughout his career is negligble. that player is derek jeter. m.e.t.b.o.t. found this to be interesting.

Gee 2.64 Byrd 2.50 Hawkins 2.07 Aardsma 1.43 Davis 0.57 Flores 0.46 Recker 0.20 Murphy 0.12

Harvey 5.09 Buck 2.52 Quintanilla 1.27 Flores 0.64 Young 0.31 Davis 0.17

Lagares 4.53 Torres 2.61 Atchison 0.90 Hawkins 0.74 Young 0.72 Davis 0.51