Twenty-home run power is certainly respectable, but what the Yankees (and Moneyball devotees) will deem most important is Swisher’s high on-base percentages; as a Yankee his OBPs have never been lower than .359 (it was .374 last season, second only to his .381 OBP with the Athletics in 2007). Sabermetric critics might argue that using OBP alone to evaluate ...
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Nick Swisher Not Hurt Badly, But Yankees Lack Depth in Outfield
at the Pinstriped Bible (full disclosure: I own the damned thing), Rebecca Glass discusses Nick Swisher’s double-groin injury. Parenthetically, in my ignorance of anatomy I tend to think of “groin” in the singular rather than the plural, as the Man with Two Groins automatically suggests an old-school carnival sideshow or Tod Browning’s Freaks: