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Article: The Wild Must Resist Temptation To Extend Jake Middleton


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I mentioned this in the Necas article, but Russo seemed to indicate that Middleton played a good deal of the season banged up. He had a knee procedure at season's end, and just plain gutted it out because, well, there was nobody capable behind him. 

This likely explains a lot as far as his replacement value down the stretch, and how he played mostly on one leg. However, fancy analytics do not take these things into account, and the heart of the player sometimes has way more value than can be statistically accounted for.

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