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    A Choo-In

    Rangers' selection of Shin-Soo Choo shows off 'Moneyball' paradigm

    Matthew Postins
    Dec 24, 2013 | 8:20 am

    To understand why it makes sense for the Texas Rangers to sign Shin-Soo Choo to a seven-year, $130 million contract, you have to look deeper than his batting average.

     

    Choo was one of the National League’s top offensive players last year, even though he only hit 21 home runs. We are long past the era where we measure players by the baseballs that leave the ballpark, and Choo is a shining example of the era that "Moneyball" has helped create.

     

    Choo was in the NL top 10 in 19 different NL offensive categories last year, according to Baseball-reference.com. Some of those categories are easy to grasp, such as on-base percentage (.423), runs scored (107), walks (112), times on base (300) and hit by pitch (26).

     

     

      Choo was one of the National League’s top offensive players last year, and he excelled at areas where the Rangers struggled.

     
     

    Others need explanation. For instance, Choo was fifth in what is called base-out runs added (49.94), defined as “given the bases occupied and the out situation, how many runs did the batter or baserunner add in the resulting play.”

     

    That’s a really fancy way of saying it’s how often Choo influenced the Reds’ ability score runs as a hitter or baserunner. He did so quite often last year.

     

    Choo excelled at areas where the Rangers struggled last year. The Ranger with the highest on-base percentage last season was Adrian Beltre (.371).

     

    In fact, he was the only Ranger with an on-base percentage better than .350. Choo scored more runs, walked more times and was hit by more pitches than any Ranger last season.

     

    Should Choo, as expected, step into the leadoff role for the departed Ian Kinsler, Choo will be a step up. Choo’s on-base percentage was 68 points better than Kinsler. He also scored 22 more runs than Kinsler and drew more than twice as many walks.

     

    Trading Kinsler for Prince Fielder brought the Rangers a great power bat, but it also created a void at the top of the order, which Choo fills. In fact, getting Choo was more important than waiting for the price to re-sign Nelson Cruz to come down.

     

    Cruz hit more home runs last season than Choo (27), but that’s about all he did better. Cruz walked just 35 times, struck out 109 times and had an on-base percentage nearly 100 points worse than Choo. Plus, both players are the same age, and although Choo has proven durable throughout his Major League career, Cruz has played more than 128 games just once in a season (159 in 2012).

     

    The Rangers had to make up gaps in key statistical areas related to run-scoring to contend in 2014. All five American League playoff teams scored more runs than the Rangers’ 730 last season. They were fifth-worst in the AL in drawing walks (462). Their on-base percentage (.323) was just a hair above the league average in 2013.

     

    The Rangers needed to acquire a player that could set the table for Beltre and Fielder this season. Choo should be the perfect complement. He should also help the pitching staff as well, especially Yu Darvish, who at times received so little run support last season it was downright criminal.

     

    Choo may be the same age as Kinsler and Cruz, but he should prove more durable and more effective at helping the Rangers solve their run-scoring issues in 2014. And that makes him worth the money.

    The Texas Rangers signed Shin-Soo Choo to a seven-year, $130 million contract.

      
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    Basketball News

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man for the Dallas Mavericks

    Associated Press
    Jun 26, 2025 | 8:55 am
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    Cooper Flagg, newest Dallas Mavericks pick

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man in Dallas. The Mavericks took the Duke forward with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on June 25, hoping they have found their next franchise superstar less than five months after trading one away.

    Mavericks fans were furious when Dallas traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on February 1, some immediately threatening to end their support of the team.

    But the ones who stuck around may quickly love Flagg, the college player of the year who averaged 19.2 points and 7.5 rebounds while leading Duke to the Final Four. The Mavericks quickly announced that Flagg would wear No. 32 in Dallas, where fellow Duke products Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II are on the roster.

    “I’m really excited. I think I keep saying I’m excited to be a sponge, to get down there and just learn, be surrounded by Hall of Fame-caliber guys and just to be able to learn from them,” Flagg said. “It’s going to be an incredible experience.”

    His selection — considered likely ever since Flagg showed off his considerable game last summer after being invited to the U.S. Olympic team's training camp — was a daylong celebration in his home state for the 18-year-old forward from Newport, Maine.

    “It means a lot to me to have the support of the whole state. I know how many people showed up today and supported me at some of the draft parties back home,” Flagg said. “It feels amazing knowing I can inspire younger kids. I was in their shoes really not that long ago, so just to know I can give those kids those feelings and have the whole state behind me, it means a lot.”

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    The backstory
    Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn't thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he started a staff meeting before the draft lottery by saying the club was entering the most important offseason in franchise history.

    The longtime NBA executive and relatively new leader on the business side of the Mavs was thinking about the lingering fallout of the widely reviled Luka Doncic trade, not the club turning a 1.8% chance into winning the rights to draft the teenaged star from Duke.

    “Never, ever did anybody in our organization ever even say what would happen if we win. That's a waste of time,” Welts told The Associated Press recently. “Like, it's unbelievable. It was hard to even get your head around.”

    The self-inflicted wounds were numerous after general manager Nico Harrison's stunning decision to send Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis in early February.

    Fans were incensed. Season-ticket holders were canceling. Potential new sponsors were telling Welts they'd have to think about it.
    Just like that, the Mavs had a vision to sell of a potential superstar who could someday be the face of the franchise — as Doncic was, and fellow European superstar Dirk Nowitzki before him. Just like that, despair turned to hope for plenty of people, including those under Welts who had spent weeks dealing with the wrath of a spurned fan base.

    Before the Doncic trade, Welts had already made a decision to raise season-ticket prices. He told the AP he had to back off on the size of the increase as he watched the visceral reaction unfold.

    Welts has seen plenty in nearly 50 years with the NBA, including time in the league office and stints with Phoenix and Golden State. That's not to say the Doncic fallout didn't have a profound impact on the 72-year-old Welts, who had come out of retirement to replace Cynt Marshall just a month and a half earlier. It just means he has weathered a few storms.

    And now the Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer isn't so sure he's ever seen the sun come back out so quickly.

    “The thing that I learned through all of this experience was what I knew was like this amazing emotional tie between this team and these fans was even stronger than I think anybody who hadn’t lived here and been a part of it could ever imagine,” Welts said. “Just the outpouring of pure joy and the idea of a generational player that could change our fortunes for the next 15 years would land with us by pure luck.”

    Part of what made the Doncic deal so hard to believe was unloading a 25-year-old superstar in his prime nine months after leading Dallas to the NBA Finals for the first time in 13 years. The Mavs lost to Boston in five games last June.

    Harrison's reasoning was prioritizing defense, and his belief that Davis and Irving were a good enough tandem to keep Dallas as a championship contender. Flagg's potential gave that notion a boost.

    “I feel like I’m a broken record, but the team that we intended to put on the floor, which you guys saw for 2 1/2 quarters, that’s a championship-caliber team,” Harrison said. “And so you might not like it, but that’s the fact, it is.”

    Welts, who believes the Mavs have work to do to bring their basketball and business sides together, will spend plenty of time during the early days of the Flagg era sharing his vision for a new arena.

    It's a big reason Welts took the job, after spending seven years with Golden State on an arena plan that moved the Warriors across the bay to San Francisco from Oakland. He says all the talks are focused on keeping the team in Dallas.

    While the casino-centered Adelson and Dumont families of Las Vegas, in the middle of their second full year as owners of the Mavs, wanted gambling to be part of the formula for a new arena, the political realities in Texas have shifted the focus away from that idea for now.

    There's a new focus for Welts in what seems certain will be the final stop in an eventful NBA career: building everything around another potentially generational star after the Mavs jettisoned the one they had.

    “Don't make this sound like I'm suggesting that everyone is forgiven,” Welts said. “Luka will always be a big part of what this organization is. But for a large number of fans, it is a pathway — it's not a pathway, it's like a four-lane highway into being able to care about the Mavericks the way they cared about the Mavericks before.”

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