Comments on: Chris Young’s Fatal Flaw

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:54:47 +0000

Updating a previous item, base stealers are currently at 20/20 against Chris Young.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/6/26/926224/daily-box-score-pickoffs-four-hit

By: mike

mike — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:56:09 +0000

“Where did you find the stolen base numbers against Young? Are these statistics (stolen bases allowed/attempted) readily available?”

BB-ref also has them, under the main “pitching statistics” for a player, in the “Batting Against–Pitching” table.

Young has an amazing record. I thought Gooden, Nomo, and Wakefield were bad at preventing steals, but they’re still not close to Young.

By: Fresh Hops

Fresh Hops — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:53:08 +0000

Correction: that should have read “his looking strike rate was half his swinging strike rate” not “half his Ks were looking.” There’s obviously a big difference. Still, that is a high rate of looking Ks.

By: bhoov

bhoov — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:05:05 +0000

Gavin Floyd may be second worst among active pitchers. baserunners are 66 for 74 for an 89% success rate in his career. 37/42 last year for 88% success rate.

By: TheGreenMiles

TheGreenMiles — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:23:28 +0000

Clearly anyone can see that throwing out baserunners is solely the catcher’s duty so it’s Nick Hundley’s fault. “Before the throw that popped Hawpe in the neck, Colorado had stolen 8 bases off of San Diego catcher Nick Hundley — 5 by Dexter Fowler. Hundley, who’s only relation to Todd is that they both suck at nabbing base stealers, didn’t intend to hit Hawpe in the neck, but I bet the throw had some extra zip on it out of frustration.”
http://www.bugsandcranks.com/marktownsend/video-another-awkward-moment-in-television-history-featuring-matt-vasgersian/

See? If only Hundley’s throws were 300 mph … Ian Stewart’s glove would’ve wound up pinned to the CF fence. But still.

By: Trent

Trent — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:30:01 +0000

I got them from CBS under “situational stats”. Here is Youngs page:

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/players/player/splits/2009/517762

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:21:12 +0000

Dave,

Where did you find the stolen base numbers against Young? Are these statistics (stolen bases allowed/attempted) readily available?

By: Trent

Trent — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:13:10 +0000

Most people seem to agree with you. I went ahead and looked back a few years…Here is what I found.

From 2005-2008 35 pitchers have had a season with a GB/FB under 0.7. Of these only 8 had a BABIP over .300. Where as 9 have had a BABIP under .260. Considering BABIP is supposed to normalize at .300 it looks like there might be a trend for those pitchers that are extreme flyball pitchers to have a lower normalized BABIP than normal pitchers.

By: Matt Harms

Matt Harms — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:08:35 +0000

You’re right on me throwing out the generalities, fair enough. But the whip, era, and hits are all artificially low due to his unsustainable babip.

By: Trent

Trent — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:45:19 +0000

I would say that is a bit of an exageration. Here are his splits for his first two years in San Diego(leaving out last year because he was injured most of the year):

Away: 181IP 68ER 126H 76BB 3.38ERA 1.07WHIP
Home: 171.1IP 60ER 126H 65BB 3.14 ERA 1.06WHIP

Yeah…I suppose your right, no way he should be in the majors. You would think if you frequented a site like this you wouldn’t throw out generalities like you did without first looking at the numbers.