Monday, July 22, 2013
Is Ichiro struggling?
According to Baseball-Reference, he has given above-average production. According to Fangraphs, he has given right-around-average production. He has played a well above-average amount of time. Therefore, any way you slice it, Ichiro has clearly generated above-average production (so far).
With a two-year 13MM$ deal, the Yankees were probably hoping to get about 8MM$ of production in 2013 and 5MM$ in 2014. If he continues to perform at somewhere between above-average and replacement-level, the Yankees will have gotten what they paid for, for 2013. And his production in 2014 will be on track to match what they are paying for as well.
Ichiro is not struggling. If anything, it's a great example of a player delivering what the team expected from him. (Cue the scene between Billy Beane and David Justice from Moneyball.)
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