Comments on: Lidge Named Comeback Player of the Year in the NL http://pcpsports.com/2008/09/30/lidge-named-comeback-player-of-the-year-in-the-nl/ There's more than one side to every sports story...what's yours? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John http://pcpsports.com/2008/09/30/lidge-named-comeback-player-of-the-year-in-the-nl/#comment-822 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:43:39 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=1851#comment-822 Couldn’t disagree more, Tom. Would you give a comeback player of the year award to Albert Pujols if he was out for the year in 2009 then in 2010 put up his career averages in numbers? How do you define a comeback? I define it as bringing your career numbers closer to the mean rather than deviating from the mean? Example would be Pat Burrell in 2006. In 2005, a down year, he hit .221 with 20something HR’s and low 60′s RBI’s. This deviates from his career average in a major way. A “comeback” is just that: coming back to the mean. I see your point as well, but it’s too hard to give it to superstars who come back from injuries. I get that they’re technically “coming back,” but I don’t believe the award was meant for superstars coming back from a year long injury. There numbers are always around the same. It’s simply Finite Mathematics, averages, means, and standard deviations…..

]]> By: Tom Peters http://pcpsports.com/2008/09/30/lidge-named-comeback-player-of-the-year-in-the-nl/#comment-821 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:51:50 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=1851#comment-821 I disagree. While a mental block may be a hinderance to success it is not the obstacle that a physical injury would be.

Lidge *thought* he could not pitch, while Wood could not *physically* pitch.

]]> By: Michael DeLuca http://pcpsports.com/2008/09/30/lidge-named-comeback-player-of-the-year-in-the-nl/#comment-820 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:22:14 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=1851#comment-820 I don’t know that comeback necessarily has to be comeback from injury. Many believed that Lidge could never again be a successful closer, that his mental makeup and psyche would never be the same. He certainly proved those critics wrong and that would have to be considered a comeback of sorts.

]]> By: Tom Peters http://pcpsports.com/2008/09/30/lidge-named-comeback-player-of-the-year-in-the-nl/#comment-818 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:56:27 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=1851#comment-818 Did Brad Lidge really have adversity? Just because you had some demons in the closet and did well doesn’t trump a player coming back from injury. Silly.

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