Well doneOriginally Posted by TRF
Well done
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He has a .189 BABIP on the year. Wouldn't that explain the reduced Ks and no increase in OBP?
It explains the OBP to an extent. I don't think BABIP has anything to do with K's
Krono, good god man. 53,000+ posts? I was thinking I post too much.
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The poster we know as "Krono" is actually a team of 58 people working in a sweatshop in Romania.It explains the OBP to an extent. I don't think BABIP has anything to do with K's
Krono, good god man. 53,000+ posts? I was thinking I post too much.
Bulgaria...err I mean..what?
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I do have to disagree here. Outs are not outs. When you put the ball in play you move runners over, you get errors, put more pressure on the defense - all kind of things can happen. When you K that's it. You walk to the duggout with your head down.
Pretty nice tenure I think WK has had. If Cueto develps like he is under his watch he may actually keep his job!
That is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time.
One of the things that can happen is hitting into a double play, and it happens a lot. On a macro level, the damage from DPs cancels out most of the benefits from so-called productive outs, making "just put it in play" largely a wash.
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I do have to disagree here. Outs are not outs. When you put the ball in play you move runners over, you get errors, put more pressure on the defense - all kind of things can happen. When you K that's it. You walk to the dugout with your head down.Can we get this like permanently etched in a thread somewhere?One of the things that can happen is hitting into a double play, and it happens a lot. On a macro level, the damage from DPs cancels out most of the benefits from so-called productive outs, making "just put it in play" largely a wash.
Maybe with some hitters, but I would guess (don't have stats) with Patterson's speed would keep him out of many DP. He's also lead off so no one would be on base in many of his ABs.
CP GIDP 1 per 117 PA's.
Part of Corey's problem from a BABIP perspective is bad luck. However, part of it is that the quality of his batted balls has dropped as his contact rate is going up. He's trading strikeouts for non-HR flyballs -- the least valuable batted ball there is.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
The flip side of that is, if you believe in BABIP and the randomness of hits falling in, that every ball you put in play has about a 30% of chance of finding a hole.
Anytime you can replace 30 K's with 30 balls in play, you stand a pretty good chance of getting 9 extra hits out of the deal. Sure, you might also get an extra GIDP or two, but that is largely offset just by the increased chance of a 'productive' out or of reaching base via an error, to say nothing of those nine extra hits.
Last edited by Steve4192; 04-15-2008 at 09:23 PM.
What makes you think he is trading strikeouts for warning track fly balls? The guy has been driving the ball out of the park at a much higher rate than at any other time during his career.
I'd say some of those extra fly balls most definitely turned into home runs.
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