Curtis Granderson?

[Scarey]

<!--quoteo(post=69687:date=Nov 19 2009, 10:01 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Nov 19 2009, 10:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->According to the stats given, Crawford's OBP was 35 points higher.
I don't get it. Are their career stats drastically different from last year's?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Yes.

Granderson

Crawford

As bad of a year as Granderson had last year (which accounted for 25% of his PAs for his career) he still beats Crawford for lifetime OBP. Also, as I and Ace have said multiple times, Granderson had a miserably unlucky year. This is not my opinion. It may be debatable, but when a player has a 21% line drive percentage and a .275 BABIP, luck is not an opinion at that point. He basically hit a whole bunch of line drives right at fielders. Trends seem to point to the fact that those line drives will not be hit at defenders as much going forward.

And the guy has power! Crawford has decent power and can hit 15 HRs. Granderson hit 30 HRs last year and 10 of them were at Comerica Park.