I can understand pitching from AL to NL, but hitting has no effect in terms of the different leagues, and it isn't like the AL East was that strong with pitching last year
If the question is who I would rather have on my team, it's Longoria. However, I think Wright is the better player right now since he's proven to be consistent.
I'm a homer _ Mets are my team so I go for Wright. That being said I don't think you can make a wrong decision here!
Most of the better pitchers are in the AL plus starters usually last longer because they don't have to be yanked for PH'ers.
the AL lineups are stronger. IOW, it's a burden on the pitchers. I would rather hit in a better lineup because you simply get better pitches to hit.
your study is a little outdated and even when you factor in the difference from the maximum that your study pointed out, Wright still has better numbers so this argument about stronger leagues is irrelevant
You linked to a study of questionable relevance. It's over 27 months old and it focused on a three year period. The three years before that, the difference wasn't significant. So the study shows that the AL likely had better pitching and defense in 2004-2006. Longoria's rookie year was 2008. None of this changes a thing. Wright is still better than Longoria right now.
I feel/know there are better pitchers in the AL. Thats why I wrote that. I just thought about Longoria playing the Red Sox and Yankees so much, then I thought about how much Wright plays the Nationals (and loses). So I gave it to Longoria. Both are great though. Its like the Ovechkin/Crosby (Should be Malkin) argument.
Wright plays the Nationals and loses? Stupid comment. Longoria also loses to the Orioles, if you think it's all on one player. I feel/know you're wrong about David Wright.
FYI, Wright had a significantly higher VORP last season. He was 5th in MLB. Longoria didn't crack the top 50. But I guess Longoria was better because he beat the Red Sox and White Sox.
The question was who would you rather have? I said Longoria. I knew you would do that with my Nats comment too. haha.
I don't think anyone is saying Longoria was better than Wright last year. Just the fact that Longoria missed a month of the season while Wright played 160 games easily gives him the edge.
right. It's ludicrous to say Longoria is better based on last season. Thus, the argument for him would be that he's younger.
Last year who did Longoria face against? Tough teams doesn't mean tough pitching, Yankees pitching was abused by injury which is counter productive to your argument, and he didn't even hit well against either the Yankees or the Red Sox
