Top 32 tournament C Harnett vs Parrish

[obxyankeefan]

Since I will be on the road all day tomorrow. I am posting this one a little early and will post their BR page along with the updated bracket tomorrow night.

Anyways this weeks catcher is:

Grabby Harnett

vs

Lance Parrish

 

[MilkSpiller22]

This one is tough... Parrish was the much better defender... Hartnett was also a good defender, but nowhere near parrish...

parrish was a better power hitter, but Hartnett was a better overall hitter by a pretty large margin...

I generally go defense at the catcher position, especially if the better defensive player was not terrible with the bat... But parrish was not good enough with the bat to justify being better than Hartnett... his .313 OBP is just not good enough compared to Hartnett's respectable .370 OBP...

 

[StanMarsh51]

This one is tough... Parrish was the much better defender... Hartnett was also a good defender, but nowhere near parrish...

parrish was a better power hitter, but Hartnett was a better overall hitter by a pretty large margin...

I generally go defense at the catcher position, especially if the better defensive player was not terrible with the bat... But parrish was not good enough with the bat to justify being better than Hartnett... his .313 OBP is just not good enough compared to Hartnett's respectable .370 OBP...

Relative to their leagues, I'm not so sure that Parrish was the better power hitter. Hartnett 5x finished in the top 5 in his league in homers, and 7x in the top 10 in slugging.

 

[navamind]

Hartnett: career .192 ISO
Parrish: .188 ISO

 

[soxfan1468927]

Relative to their leagues, I'm not so sure that Parrish was the better power hitter. Hartnett 5x finished in the top 5 in his league in homers, and 7x in the top 10 in slugging.

I always like to compare primes. Harnett from 1924-1937 and Parrish for 1979-1990. The league slugging percentage was higher during Hartnett's prime, but that was due largely to the fact that the league BA was .290 compared to just .263 for Parrish. The league ISO during Hartnett's prime was .121 compared to .132 for Parrish. And Hartnett's ISO was higher than Parrish so I would agree, Hartnett had more power.

The only knock on Hartnett is really that he only played 130+ games three times in his career.

 

[obxyankeefan]

Top 32 players ranked by BRWAR(as of 6/18/15). I will put one matchup per position each week and over 31 week we will vote for who the best at that postion is.

Catcher Bracket is:

1 J Bench 13
32 R Ferrell 1

16 T Munson 6
17 W Schang 0

8 B Dickey 3 Dickey will advance on higher seed
25 R Campanella 3

9 G Harnett
24 L Parrish

4 C Fisk
29 J Clements

13 G Tenace
20 J Kendall

5 Y Berra
28 R Martin

12 B Ewing
21 R Bresnahan

3 I Rodriguez
30 D McGuire

14 J Mauer
19 J Posada

6 M Piazza
27 V Martinez

11 T Simmons
22 D Porter

2 G Carter
31 S Lollar

15 E Lombardi
18 B Freehan

7 J Torre
26 S Burgess

10 M Cochrane
23 J Sundberg

1 J Bench
16 T Munson

8 B Dickey