00:00a couple of moments of your time to present my case for one marcus simeon oh i like this
00:21i am gonna argue after the first half of the season the rangers cannot do without marcus
00:27simeon we're gonna we're gonna split this season up into two different components when marcus simeon
00:33was really bad and when he's been really good the line of delineation is june 1st it is astonishing
00:40how well that lines up has he been three really is good yet or is he just really really i think it's
00:45just two just two really okay so that gives you optimism potentially for the future yeah just two
00:50all right so consider this first 58 games of the season 58 games marcus simeon had four home runs
00:58and 21 rbis that is dreadful yeah last 38 games though eight home runs and 28 rbis just to put
01:08that in perspective if you push that out for the entire season that would have him on pace for 34
01:13home runs and 118 rbis now i realize because of the poor start you're not going to get there but my
01:19point is that he has been on a tear let's take a further look at this in the first 58 games of the
01:26year marcus simeon had four multi-hit games yikes in the last 38 he's had 11 multi-hit games so there's
01:36no doubt he is heated up in the last 38 games he has a 301 batting average and a 909 ops and you
01:42might be like that sounds great kevin that's one individual player so let's talk about that part
01:47my contention is that marcus simeon is the key to this offense consider this first 58 games of the
01:55season you know how many runs the rangers scored i know it feels like the answer is four but the
02:00answer is 196 okay so think about these numbers first 58 games 196 runs last 38 games 197 runs so in
02:1020 fewer games they have scored one more run and those games coincide exactly with the offensive
02:18takeoff from marcus simeon first 58 games they average 3.38 runs per game that's never going to
02:25get you anywhere last 38 games they have averaged 5.18 runs per game now that can get you somewhere
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