Random Baseball Stat of the Day

Jacoby Ellsbury has only been up with the Red Sox for 15 games and yet he has exactly half the number of Win Shares (4 for Ellsbury and 8 for Drew) as JD Drew who has played 124 games this season for Boston.

I'm assuming that since Win Shares were "invented" by Bill James as the best way to gauge a player's value and since Bill James works for the Red Sox that this fact has not been lost on the front office or manager Tito Francona.

Yes - this means the last guy on the JD Drew bandwagon has officially given up hope. I want to see Ellsbury in the lineup once Manny Ramirez comes back from his injury. JD Drew is slugging just .383 that's a worse slugging percentage than Coco Crisp (.387).