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	<title>Comments on: Spanish Flushing &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<title>By: Raphy</title>
		<link>http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/555/comment-page-1#comment-3832</link>
		<dc:creator>Raphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Agreed.
My intention was only to add to the discussion, not to end it.</description>
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My intention was only to add to the discussion, not to end it.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
		<link>http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/555/comment-page-1#comment-3827</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One thing to keep in mind with this data is that the Mets&#039; numbers are based on a pretty small sample size. One or two players from a given location make a big difference here. I&#039;m not suggesting that the Mets/Minaya do NOT favor Latino players--they just might--but rather that we probably need a lot more data to really prove it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing to keep in mind with this data is that the Mets' numbers are based on a pretty small sample size. One or two players from a given location make a big difference here. I'm not suggesting that the Mets/Minaya do NOT favor Latino players--they just might--but rather that we probably need a lot more data to really prove it.</p>
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		<title>By: Raphy</title>
		<link>http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/555/comment-page-1#comment-3820</link>
		<dc:creator>Raphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The league-wide figures include the Mets.</description>
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		<title>By: birtelcom</title>
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		<dc:creator>birtelcom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do the league-wide figures include or exclude the Mets?

I think that, consciously or not, Omar is taking the same approach to Hispanic-heritage players that Billy Beane took during the Moneyball years to types of players the market seemed to undervalue a bit.  In Beane&#039;s case he loooked for players who walked a lot, for college prospects instead of high school prospects, for sidearm pitchers, and players in other categories that the market seemd to undervalue at the time.  For Minaya, I think he believes, and he may well be quite right, that in many cases between an American born player and an Hispanic player of equal talent, the market will undervalue the Hispanic player a bit and there is thus sometimes a market opportunity there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do the league-wide figures include or exclude the Mets?</p>
<p>I think that, consciously or not, Omar is taking the same approach to Hispanic-heritage players that Billy Beane took during the Moneyball years to types of players the market seemed to undervalue a bit.  In Beane's case he loooked for players who walked a lot, for college prospects instead of high school prospects, for sidearm pitchers, and players in other categories that the market seemd to undervalue at the time.  For Minaya, I think he believes, and he may well be quite right, that in many cases between an American born player and an Hispanic player of equal talent, the market will undervalue the Hispanic player a bit and there is thus sometimes a market opportunity there.</p>
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		<title>By: Stat of the Day &#187; Spanish Flushing</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stat of the Day &#187; Spanish Flushing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Please see Spanish Flushing II for a continuation of this [...]</description>
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