Author Topic: The Royals (Read 5797527 times)

mocat · « **Reply #49675 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:42:55 PM »

qualified AL hitters ranked by balls in play percentage (% of all plate appearances with ball put into play)

1. Jose Altuve 82%
2. Erick Aybar 82%
3. Alexei Ramirez 82%
4. Alcides Escobar 81%
5. Ian Kinsler 80%

qualified AL hitters ranked by lowest strikeout percentage (% of all plate appearances ending with a strikeout)
1. Michael Brantley 8.6%
2. Jose Altuve 9.7%
3. Ben Zobrist 10.5%
4. Adrian Beltre 10.5%
5. Albert Pujols 10.9%
6. Alexei Ramirez 10.9%
7. Josh Reddick 11.2%
8. Alcides Escobar 11.3%

AL qualified hitters, ranked by worst BAbip (batting average on balls in play)
1. Albert Pujols .217
2. Brian McCann .235
3. Jose Bautista .237
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22. Alcides Escobar .286

take from this what you will

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #49676 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:43:36 PM »

well weak grounders to short are usually outs

star seed 7 · « **Reply #49677 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:47:22 PM »

Cf3 hating esky is just the dorkiest

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #49678 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:48:27 PM »

you guys confuse "disagreeing with the way a player is used" as hating. I love Esky.

mocat · « **Reply #49679 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:52:15 PM »

Quote from: Cartierfor3 on October 06, 2015, 04:43:36 PM

well weak grounders to short are usually outs

2014 BAbip: .326 (#18 in AL)
2015 BAbip: .286 (#48 in AL)

just good luck last year / bad luck this year?

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #49680 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:53:35 PM »

Quote from: mocat on October 06, 2015, 04:52:15 PM

Quote from: Cartierfor3 on October 06, 2015, 04:43:36 PM
well weak grounders to short are usually outs

2014 BAbip: .326 (#18 in AL)
2015 BAbip: .286 (#48 in AL)

just good luck last year / bad luck this year?

Did he strike out more last year?

mocat · « **Reply #49681 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:54:55 PM »

OT: lorenzo cain's BAbip last year was .380 (#1 by a pretty wide margin in all of MLB)

mocat · « **Reply #49682 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:58:01 PM »

Quote from: Rage Against the McKee on October 06, 2015, 04:53:35 PM

Quote from: mocat on October 06, 2015, 04:52:15 PM
Quote from: Cartierfor3 on October 06, 2015, 04:43:36 PM
well weak grounders to short are usually outs

2014 BAbip: .326 (#18 in AL)
2015 BAbip: .286 (#48 in AL)

just good luck last year / bad luck this year?

Did he strike out more last year?

not much more

2014: 13.4%
2015: 11.3%

sys · « **Reply #49683 on:** October 06, 2015, 04:58:40 PM »

Quote from: TownieCat on October 06, 2015, 04:39:48 PM

Except for the 109 times in 2015 he reached via single, BB, or HBP you are absolutely correct.

i got forgot to include hbp, but without those:

salvy - 3.8% of the time clears the bases, 4.5% leaves himself in scoring position, 19.0% clogs up first in front of esky.
rios - 1.0% clears, 5.8% scoring position, 20.7% clogs up first.

so there is some tradeoff between clearing the bases in front of your worst hitter, vs having a really slow guy on first that is unlikely to score on most esky hits vs having someone very unlikely to clear the bases, leaving your worst hitter in a greater number of highly leveraged at bats.

of course, the obvious remedy is to pr gore for salvy any time him clogging up the bases is important.

sys · « **Reply #49684 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:00:29 PM »

Quote from: mocat on October 06, 2015, 04:52:15 PM

just good luck last year / bad luck this year?

yes.

mocat · « **Reply #49685 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:04:34 PM »

Quote from: sys on October 06, 2015, 05:00:29 PM

Quote from: mocat on October 06, 2015, 04:52:15 PM
just good luck last year / bad luck this year?

yes.

it's so amazing to me that Esky is the only Royals player having an abnormally (not due to age) down year. Remember last year? woof.

mocat · « **Reply #49686 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:07:11 PM »

some time in early july i think last year, i made some post basically on my hands and knees, bemoaning the fact that "if the royals could just hit their MF'ing career averages, they'd be unbeatable".
this year just about everyone is smashing career records right and left, and the royals are unbeatable. i like this year better

sys · « **Reply #49687 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:07:52 PM »

Quote from: mocat on October 06, 2015, 05:04:34 PM

it's so amazing to me that Esky is the only Royals player having an abnormally (not due to age) down year. Remember last year? woof.

infante's decline is probably abnormal. i think you'd expect some age-related decline, but he fell off a cliff. rios also has probably played worse than could expected for a normal 34 year old with his career numbers.

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #49688 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:29:14 PM »

at the Royals pep rally workout thingy:

Cartierfor3 · « **Reply #49689 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:29:57 PM »

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tell us about the booty

slobber · « **Reply #49690 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:40:36 PM »

I just fist-bumped a dude in a stud Roys jacket at RDU. He smiled.

Gonna win 'em all!

pissclams · « **Reply #49691 on:** October 06, 2015, 05:58:47 PM »

omar would have come out of his extended slump but wasn't given a chance

TownieCat · « **Reply #49692 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:03:21 PM »

Quote from: pissclams on October 06, 2015, 05:58:47 PM

omar would have come out of his extended slump but wasn't given a chance

He had the 7 rbi game at Cleveland and then injured himself the next day. We'll never know if he had turned the corner or not.

wetwillie · « **Reply #49693 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:05:22 PM »

Can you imagine having to fight it out with another scrub team just to be fed to the Lions in KC? Must be so embarrasing.

pissclams · « **Reply #49694 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:17:22 PM »

Quote from: TownieCat on October 06, 2015, 06:03:21 PM

Quote from: pissclams on October 06, 2015, 05:58:47 PM
omar would have come out of his extended slump but wasn't given a chance
He had the 7 rbi game at Cleveland and then injured himself the next day. We'll never know if he had turned the corner or not.

i think that we all know that he turned the proverbial corner, it's sad that yost couldn't admit his mistake

but bird poison is all-boner, all-day so whatevs

Powercat Posse · « **Reply #49695 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:23:23 PM »

Posse stat of the day....

Gordo, Zoby, LoCain, Hos, Mo, and Moose all had an OBP in a Royal uniform between.348-.377
All 6 were in the top 33 in the AL

Last year we only had 2 above .340 (.351, .349)

kso_FAN · « **Reply #49696 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:50:02 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on October 06, 2015, 04:23:14 PM

Quote from: Cartierfor3 on October 06, 2015, 04:09:33 PM
the baseball philosophy of "swing at anything, regardless of count" is so stupid I can't begin to wrap my brain around it.

you saying you know more about baseball than the greatest coach in KC history?

I can't wait to take my grandkids to see the gigantic statue of Ned and telling them stories of the teens Royals. Will be great.

kso_FAN · « **Reply #49697 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:52:32 PM »

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/mlb-american-league-playoffs-blue-jays-yankees/?ex_cid=538twitter

wetwillie · « **Reply #49698 on:** October 06, 2015, 06:54:47 PM »

Are they playing starwars music?

sys · « **Reply #49699 on:** October 06, 2015, 08:05:00 PM »

tanaka not fooling anyone. keuchel doesn't look great either, but the yankees haven't done anything other than work his pitch count. hopefully he's not going to be able to go deep with that short rest.