Michael Young and Carlos Guillen

Found an interesting link on one of the other team blogs I read, “Tiger Blog“. They are basically taking the slant that Michael Young’s contract would drive up the price of Carlos Guillen’s contract extension. They specifically make this statement:

Young is one year younger then Carlos Guillen and you can argue that both are pretty comparable players

I decided to look up their numbers for the last couple of seasons:

Young	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SLG	OBP
2006	162	691	93	217	52	3	14	103	.314	.459	.356
2005	159	668	114	221	40	5	24	91	.331	.513	.385
2004	160	690	114	216	33	9	22	99	.313	.483	.353
2003	160	666	106	204	33	9	14	72	.306	.446	.339

Guillen	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SLG	OBP
2006	153	543	100	174	41	5	19	85	.320	.519	.400
2005	87	334	48	107	15	4	5	23	.320	.434	.368
2004	136	522	97	166	37	10	20	97	.318	.542	.379
2003	109	388	63	107	19	3	7	52	.276	.394	.359

One thing that just leaps off the page is durability. In just the sampled years, the number of games played is a major difference. Number of hits is also a big difference. In fact, as you go down the line, the only number that seems pretty consistently the same is batting average. Before I looked up the numbers, I thought that Guillen had more home runs, but even then Mike Young’s got him beat over time.
After looking at the numbers, I do not believe that Guillen matches up with Young in all those phases. I don’t think Guillen needs to worry about Young’s contract impacting his. Guillen isn’t a $15 a year guy.
Michael Young is. Thank you Doug Melvin.

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