Jays Journal » Jayson Nix http://jaysjournal.com A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Half Way Through: Blue Jays Position Players W.A.R http://jaysjournal.com/2011/06/30/half-way-through-blue-jays-position-players-w-a-r/ http://jaysjournal.com/2011/06/30/half-way-through-blue-jays-position-players-w-a-r/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:04:01 +0000 http://jaysjournal.com/?p=8319 Just over the half way point of the season, it is a great time to take a look at how our individual Blue Jays have faired. Today I will examine the stat: Wins above replacement player (war). For those of you who may be unfamiliar with war, it is essentially the best statistic available for [...]

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Just over the half way point of the season, it is a great time to take a look at how our individual Blue Jays have faired. Today I will examine the stat: Wins above replacement player (war).

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]]> It doesn’t matter how many bases you steal, only how good you are at it- to paraphrase James Click in Baseball Between the Numbers. Lofty stolen base totals shine on a players statistics chart, but are given far to much emphasis over the stat which should be considered paramount: stolen base percentage (SB%). (more…)

]]> http://jaysjournal.com/2011/04/07/the-need-for-speed-stolen-bases/feed/ 7 Thoughts on Jays Adding Jayson Nix http://jaysjournal.com/2011/03/29/thoughts-on-jays-adding-jayson-nix/ http://jaysjournal.com/2011/03/29/thoughts-on-jays-adding-jayson-nix/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:09:51 +0000 Mat Germain http://jaysjournal.com/?p=6732 Alex Anthopoulos and the Jays have made a deal that resembles the 2010 addition of Fred Lewis by adding Jayson Nix today from the Cleveland Indians in return for….future cash considerations! If he adds any value whatsoever to the 2011 season for the Jays, he’ll become yet another shrewd move made by the silent assassin. [...]

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]]> Alex Anthopoulos and the Jays have made a deal that resembles the 2010 addition of Fred Lewis by adding Jayson Nix today from the Cleveland Indians in return for….future cash considerations! If he adds any value whatsoever to the 2011 season for the Jays, he’ll become yet another shrewd move made by the silent assassin.

There’s no guarantee that he’ll get much playing time as a Jay, but here are some thoughts on the new addition and some information about him.

Drafted: 44th overall in 2001 by the Colorado Rockies

Contract Status: Signed for 2011 and will be Arbitration eligible for the first time in 2012. (more…)

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