Comments on: Grounded Success

By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:52:22 +0000

Looks like the Reds weren’t aware of Taveras’ GB-BA (.417) in 2007 when he had a “decent” year. They evidently were counting on him to return to his 2007 numbers when they signed him to that rediculous 2 yr. contract.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:31:46 +0000

Does anyone have access to the hitf/x data? Is Wright crushing his ground balls? It would be interesting to see where he ranked on horizontal ball speed on ground balls or maybe what percent of his ground balls were over, say, 80mph horizontally, then compare that to his peers. My guess is that horizontal ground ball speed correlates pretty well with BABIP on ground balls.

By: Brian Cartwright

Brian Cartwright — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:12:26 +0000

Without looking it up, I would also say that Taveras, Suzuki, Hopper and Gomez pad their totals with bunts.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:02:29 +0000

nope, me too CH. It’s mislinked or something. I was able to read it but only through the main page.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:31:43 +0000

What happened to Wright’s power? Is it just the result of the new bigger park?

By: kris

kris — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:22:11 +0000

How does Wright’s BABIP on grounders compare to the rest of the Mets? Seeing the Mets’ line-up, and their defense for that matter, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the ground-crew is cutting Citifield’s infield really tight.

We’re also dealing with 70 instances, which is pretty small — I mean, we’re only talking about 11 or 12 instances ending in a hit rather than an out compared to a .290 average. It’s neat, maybe even uncharted territory, but statistically speaking — It’s not crazy.

The fact that Wright’s a doubles machine, and defenses are probably guarding lines, also can’t hurt.

By: walkoffblast

walkoffblast — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:12:04 +0000

Anyone see if Mets in general are experiencing this uptick on GB hits? Just wondering if its got one of those angels and line drives scoring bias involved too.

By: KingKirkpatrick

KingKirkpatrick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:48:53 +0000

Hell…according to this site, 29.4%. How high is that..is that historic, or just really high but nothing to write home about?

By: KingKirkpatrick

KingKirkpatrick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:46:59 +0000

Kind of off-topic, but Miguel Olivo had a HR/FB of 24.4%..with the league average being 7.7% (according to another site). and he just went deep in his only at bat tonight…bumping it over 25% maybe. How insane is that?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:58:02 +0000

This is a really weird phenomenon. It’s not like he’s even getting that many IFH; just 6 this year compared to 16 last year and 12 the year before. It appears that just a ton of his grounders are finding holes.