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June 22, 2006
Me Likey
They keep all kinds of great stats over at The Hardball Times - including two of my personal favorites, Line Drive Percentage (LD%) for batters and the Number of Pitches that a batters sees per Plate Appearance (P/PA).
I just like it when a batter works a pitcher. And, I like it when a batter hits a line-drive. Of course, I like it when a batter is good at both of these things. So, why not combine the two (with some multiplication) to come up with an overall rate? Such as this, for the Yankees this season, to date:
Pretty interesting to see how this shakes out, huh?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at June 22, 2006 05:26 PM
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OT: I just read on espn that Riske got 3 games. THREE GAMES. How does RJ get 5 for MISSING, while Riske, who was responding to the exact same thing, gets just 3. Unbelievable.
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at June 22, 2006 07:57 PM
Let's bring back T_Long!!! oh wait :P
Posted by: Yu Hsing Chen at June 22, 2006 09:41 PM
Rich - I think it's because he's a RP and Unit is a SP.
Yu Hsing - gotta admit, that was a bummer for me too. I'll blame Long's number on small aample size. Give him 60 more PA and I would bet he would sink on this list.
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at June 23, 2006 08:24 AM