Top 32 tournament SS Larkin vs Sewell

[obxyankeefan]

Top 32 players ranked by BRWAR(as of 6/18/15).

Shortstop Bracket is:

1 H Wagner 8
32 N Garciaparra 0

16 PW Reese 3
17 L Boudreau 6

8 B Dahlen 8
25 A Fletcher 1

9 L Appling 8
24 D Bancroft 0

4 G Davis 6 advances on seed
29 O Vizquel 6

13 B Larkin
20 J Sewell

5 R Yount
28 V Stephens

12 A Trammell
21 J Tinker

3 C Ripken JR
30 T Fernandez

14 E Banks
19 L Aparicio

6 O Smith
27 J Rollins

11 D Jeter
22 B Campaneris

2 A Rodriguez
31 R Peckinpaugh

15 J Cronin
18 J Glasscock

7 B Wallace
26 M Tejada

10 A Vaughan
23 J Fregosi

1 H Wagner
17 L Boudreau

8 B Dahlen
9 L Appling

4 G Davis

 

[obxyankeefan]

Barry Larkin Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

Joe Sewell Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com

 

[MilkSpiller22]

This one is tougher than I first thought... Was actually going to just pick Joe Sewell and be happy with my upset pick... But Barry Larkin was actually much better than I remember him to be...

Larkin only had 700 more PA, so there is not to much of a difference there... and there is not a big difference in defense, but Larkin was the better defender...

Neither were power hitters, so OBP is my favorite stat to look at... And Sewell is better... But not by enough to give Sewell the win...

Sewell was special at NOT striking out, averaging 10 SOs in a 162 game season... But Larkin wasn't bad either with 61...

the biggest difference between the 2 is with base running... Larkin was a base stealer while Sewell was not...

I will go Larkin because of the SBs, all else was close enough...

 

[calsnowskier]

Sewell had one very outstanding season. The rest of his career he was not that much better than league average (according to OPS+, only 1 season of 120+) while Larkin was consistently superior (8 seasons at 120+).

Not a tough one, IMHO.