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June 19, 2007
When Johnny Comes Marching [To The Old] Home Again, Bad News For Yanks?
Anyone else notice Johnny Damon's home/road splits, so far, this season? Here they are:
Home: .317/.425/.426 (in 101 AB)
Road: .205/.277/.308 (in 117 AB)
What's killed Johnny here is two road parks, in particular:
@ Fenway: .053/.182/.053 (in 19 AB)
@ McAfee Coliseum: .077/.250/.077 (in 13 AB)
Hmmm...Boston and Oakland. Two of Damon's old stomping grounds. Could Johnny have partied too hard when visiting old friends and that's been the reason why his overall stats are so low this year?
Sure, that's just a wild guess...and not based on any eye-witness accounts (or the like). But, if you take those 32 ABs away from Damon's road stats this year, again, to date, then he's batting .259 on the road...as opposed to .205...which is a noticable difference.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at June 19, 2007 09:13 AM
Comments
It could just be that 13 and 19 ABs represent a sample size in which any baseball player could hit .077 or even .053 over such a span. But nah, probably the partying :)
Posted by: Ben K. ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.waswatching.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at June 19, 2007 10:17 AM
Don't give the Post any ideas, Steve!
Posted by: pokeefe at June 19, 2007 10:56 AM
Steve,
I know you like to intentionally stir the pot sometimes, but this is just complete crap--it is 32 at bats. Sample-size, cmon. Didn't you write a book based on baseball statistics. You might think this response is harsh, but sometimes you right thoughtful and well-researched blogs, and when you intersperse it with this utter drivel, it really lessens your other work.
Posted by: Gabe at June 19, 2007 11:47 AM
Yeah, it's probably all just a huge co-winky-dink that it just happened to be Boston and Oakland.
{He says, continuing to stir the pot, and winking}
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at June 19, 2007 11:51 AM
I guess Johnny didn't party as hard last year in
Boston and Oakland, when he put up these lines
.371/.371/800 (with 3 HR and 10RBI)--Boston
.400/.438/600--Oakland
So he just decided to start partying in his old cities this year, eh?
Posted by: Gabe at June 19, 2007 11:54 AM
Why not?
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at June 19, 2007 12:08 PM
You say why not? I say why?
Posted by: RICH at June 19, 2007 12:12 PM
Party on dude!
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at June 19, 2007 12:16 PM