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Feast or Famine: Strikeouts and Extra-base Hits in early 2011
We are about a month into the 2011 season and while browsing some statistics I started to wonder who are the feast or famine hitters to this point. For the purposes of this article, let's define a feast or famine hitter as one with a K% >=.30 and an XB/H of >=.30. The idea being that these...
Swinging Strikes Are Good For Pitchers, But Not Bad For Hitters
I'm here today in an attempt to illustrate something you probably already know - it's really good if your pitcher can get hitters to swing and miss, but it's really not bad, necessarily, if your hitter swings and misses. The chart below shows runs above average per 700 plate appearances plotted...
The 2010 Diamondbacks and their strikeouts. Do they "matter"?
"It's definitely something that needs to be addressed. Whether I retain this position or someone else is sitting here in the not-too-distant future, I would tell you it's a real issue." -- Jerry Di Poto "Good things happen when you put the ball in play.". I've lost count of the number of times...
Friday Rockpile: Heading to Arizona, Rockies offense needs to click
Rox lead NL Wild Card, but need offense | ColoradoRockies.com: NewsStreaky and strike-out prone, the Rockies' offense needs to find its groove again. Krieger: Rockies' K's are nothing special - The Denver Post When they strike out more than seven times a game, their winning percentage is .446,...
Not putting the ball in play
Taking a look at what teams do when they don't put the ball in play showed me something fairly interesting. Not putting the ball in play ends up in 1 of 3 possibilities: Walk, Strike Out or HBP. As most of us know, good hitters tend to walk and strikeout a lot, but bad hitters tend to strikeout...
It Was Ted Lilly's Field: Cubs 6, Marlins 1
Ted Lilly has been the most consistent starter the Cubs have had so far this year -- despite getting hit hard in two of his five starts. Today, he became the first Cub starter of 2009 to pitch into (and finish) the eighth inning -- and you could have made an argument for him to finish, since he...
2008 Mets Rotation And K/100 Pitches
Strikeouts per 100 pitches (K/100) apparently has a stronger correlation to runs allowed than strikeouts per 9 innings (K/9). Here are the members of the 2008 Mets rotation and their K/100: Johan SantanaOliver PerezJohn MainePedro MartinezMike...
Scott Baker strikes out four batters in third inning
Do not adjust your sets - or your box scores. In the bottom of the third inning in Sunday's game, Scott Baker struck out Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder (who reached first as the ball got away from Mike Redmond), Russell Branyan, and Mike Cameron. And so, did you know... Baker is the first Twin to...
K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K
Yes, there are fifteen of them (I made sure to count). Cubs pitchers brought their strikeout shoes to the ballpark Wednesday night; Ted Lilly, Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood combined for a season-high 15 strikeouts and the Cubs beat the Padres 8-5 in one of those "wasn't as close as the score...
Lilly Out Of The Valley
Just before Ted Lilly stroked his RBI single up the middle, I said to Howard, "Man, he has about the worst swing I've ever seen." Howard agreed. Lilly had fouled a couple of balls off and flailed rather wildly at the pitches, looking like he had never stepped in a batter's box before. And then,...
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