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SABR36 Presentation: Is A-Rod Overpaid? (Jonah Keri)
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SABR36 Presentation: Is A-Rod Overpaid? (Jonah Keri)
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| By The SABR Office |
4:30–5PM, Superior-Municipal Room
Is A-Rod Overpaid? (S18)
Jonah Keri
Don’t be too quick to answer the provocative question raised by this presentation’s title. The value of a player can be defined in many ways, and different conceptual models may lead to different answers. Jonah Keri offers a peek into the newest book from the Baseball Prospectus team with this discussion of Alex Rodriguez, his contract, and his on-field performance. Value, he argues, can be defined in many ways, and whether you’re thinking in terms of revenue streams or contribution to the offense or increasing the number of games your team wins, many models with varying assumptions (and producing varying answers) can be applied to the problem. Reviewing pertinent literature and developing the sorts of deep analytic methods for which BP has become so well known, he aims toward creating a more robust, effective model of player valuation.
Jonah Keri (jonahkeri@gmail.com) is a writer for Baseball Prospectus (www.baseballprospectus.com). He's the editor and co-author of the new book Baseball Between the Numbers, which tackles 29 of the game's raging debates.
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Page Link: http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,1785,34,0
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