(Very) initial thoughts about the 2000 player set

I'll cast the first "nit to pick" (I'm sure there will be others), but Kerry Wood should have relief numbers

Kerry Wood is similar to Dennis Eckersley. Both had years where they only started and years where they were RP only. It is very difficult to combine the two in a decade game. SOM chose to use the years 2000-2004. During those years Wood had 138 starts and zero relief appearances. SOM could have used the years 2007-2011 where Wood made lots of relief appearances with zero starts. That would have been perfectly acceptable too but he would have been a RP only.

Even if SOM had combined some of these years and made him a S/R, his ability to start games would make trying to use him as a RP pitcher too expensive. Wood had one elite RP season in 2008 but other than that season his best seasons were as a SP. I think SOM made the right choice to present him as a SP only player in this set.

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Now that I examine the years selected for Wood, I agree he should be a starter. Still In reality, they should have included a season where he was primarily a reliever, for the sake of realism.

Omar Vizquel was a SS-1 E4 as late in his career as 2006.
That was his BEST year fielding according to SOM.

In 2007 he was a SS-1 E10.

If anything, he should have been a 2,.... at 2B... Should have definitely been a 1 at SS.

As someone who has all of these cards, here are the Vizquel defensive ratings for the 5 seasons chosen:

1e8
2e19
2e12
2e8
1e4

So a 2 rating seems appropriate for the 5 seasons that were chosen. Had they picked several other years he would have been a 1 instead of a 2.