Obsevations of Pedrioa, Lugo, and Wily mo

[Cocos Disciples]

From RotoAuthority:

 

Once a week, RotoAuthority will cover players who boast a contact rate of 86% or better, but are hitting below .270. By virtue of how often these guys put the bat on the ball, they have a decent shot at raising their averages. Contact rate is calculated as (AB-K)/AB. Additionally, we'll look at those hitting over .300 with a contact rate at 80% or less.

 

Let's take a look at our batting average underachievers.

 

NAME CR AVG

Jason Kendall 87.82% 0.192

Alberto Callaspo 90.91% 0.202

Joe Crede 86.67% 0.215

Melky Cabrera 89.08% 0.218

Alfredo Amezaga 87.29% 0.229

Adam Kennedy 95.04% 0.231

Doug Mientkiewicz 88.46% 0.231

Omar Vizquel 87.95% 0.235

Julio Lugo 87.08% 0.236

Rich Aurilia 88.51% 0.236

Shea Hillenbrand 91.37% 0.237

Brian Schneider 86.23% 0.239

Jason Bartlett 86.82% 0.240

Conor Jackson 87.93% 0.241

Jose Lopez 87.22% 0.241

Maicer Izturis 90.43% 0.245

Jack Wilson 92.07% 0.250

A.J. Pierzynski 92.20% 0.255

Sean Casey 91.49% 0.255

Mark Grudzielanek 90.71% 0.257

Mike Sweeney 89.71% 0.257

Pedro Feliz 86.49% 0.257

Kevin Mench 92.04% 0.265

Cesar Izturis 92.66% 0.266

Kenny Lofton 89.04% 0.267

Dustin Pedroia 92.31% 0.269

Darin Erstad 88.96% 0.270

David Eckstein 96.45% 0.270

Juan Pierre 91.00% 0.270

A lot of these players should be able to hit their way off this list. Crede, Vizquel, Lugo, and Jackson should all see their averages rise.

 

And now those hitting .300 or better with a CR below 80%.

 

NAME CR AVG

Matt Holliday 80.00% 0.337

Miguel Cabrera 78.05% 0.317

Carlos Pena 74.31% 0.312

John Buck 74.00% 0.310

B.J. Upton 61.64% 0.308

Mark Teixeira 75.42% 0.307

Alex Rodriguez 79.77% 0.306

Mark Teahen 75.15% 0.303

Not concerned with Holliday, Cabrera, or A-Rod maintaining strong averages, but the rest might be in for a tumble.

 

Pedroia is supposedly underachieving at the plate, so his average should rise even more. Same with Lugo.

[a700hitter]

Was my statement accurate? If this hold by the end of the year, the Drew signing will have been a huge mistake, becuase we will be stuck with Drew for 4 more years at $14million/year. We could have used that dough to make a run at Ichiro, Hunter or Andruw jones to play CF. I'm not saying that this will hold until the end of the year. It is just a snapshot. It's more useful than the prospect stats that I read on these boards all the time.

[ksushi]

You're alive! I though you died when Pedroia got his average back above .250

[RedSoxRooter]

Is it just me or does Drew look like he's got a hurt back? This goes back to before the wall collision. He just looks stiff in everything he does. Even on defense. He didn't look that way in spring training.

[TheKilo]

Was my statement accurate? If this hold by the end of the year' date=' the Drew signing will have been a huge mistake, becuase we will be stuck with Drew for 4 more years at $14million/year. We could have used that dough to make a run at Ichiro, Hunter or Andruw jones to play CF. I'm not saying that this will hold until the end of the year. It is just a snapshot. It's more useful than the prospect stats that I read on these boards all the time.[/quote']

 

I think it's funny you want to run Drew out of town for a guy who strikes out 25% of the time.

[ORS]

Does anybody else not see the full-fledged irony in this? a700 is complaining about not being able to sign established, proven vets, because we signed a, well, established, proven vet. That would be like jsinger complaining about keeping prospects. Too funny.

[a700hitter]

Does anybody else not see the full-fledged irony in this? a700 is complaining about not being able to sign established' date=' proven vets, because we signed a, well, established, proven vet. That would be like jsinger complaining about keeping prospects. Too funny.[/quote']No flip-flop ORS. I make my criticisms on a case by case basis. I certainly did not criticize the FO this off-season for not spending money. You are wrong on that one. I saw this off-season's spending spree as a reaction to the embarrassment that they suffered in 2006. I level my criticisms with regard to the individual merits of each case. I was one of the few posters that thought re-signing Nixon at a bargain price for one ortwo years was a no-lose situation, especially with WMP available to platoon. I never liked the amount of money being thrown at Drew. How many posters liked that deal? I started a thread with a poll as to re-signing Nixon vs. signing Drew. I was told to "get over it. " I was told that Nixon was completely finished and it was time for him to move on, and other trite, non-responsive responses. So, there is no irony here. Apologize ORS.

[a700hitter]

I think it's funny you want to run Drew out of town for a guy who strikes out 25% of the time.

Who is looking to run Drew out of town. The way he is playing we are stuck with him for 5 years. Does it break some regulation on this board to evaluate the moves of the FO as the season goes along. If Nixon outperforms Drew this season, and we could have Nixon for $3 million as opposed to $70 million for 5 years, we would have had a lot of dough to throw at any one of the three available CF's that will be available this off-season- all of whom I like much better than Drew. Again, this is a snapshot look, and this will probably not be the case at the end of the season as will Youklis' .330+ BA.

[TedWilliams101]

ORS, every team in baseball would take Torii Hunter over JD Drew in a heart beat. Hunter has won 6 gold gloves in CF, and although his career numbers are a bit lower than Drew, he has been consistant and hasn't been an injury risk. Andrew Jones is another. Jones has won 9 gold gloves, and is a big power threat. He consistantly hits 30+ homers with 100+RBIs. He has 7 season with 30+ HR and 5 with 100+ RBI, every other year he has come very close to both stats. OMG HE STRIKES OUT!!! AHHH!!!! OMG!!!! Hes productive. Even now hes in a bad slump, but he still has 6HR, 31RBI, and 29 walks. Guess how many times he's been on the DL... 0. Virtually no injury risk. JD Drew has NOTHING on Jones. I don't care how much "potential" Drew has. He hasn't ever put it together and done anything with it. Jones actually has. Arguing that JD is better than Jones or Hunter is rediculous and just wrong.

[Anuj09]

Torri has his fair share of time on the dl but imo hes a better OF and overal player at Drew. Is Abreau a free-agent? if so i think Torri goes to the yankees or something i dunno what would happen to Damon. Maybe they move Matsui to right and have Damon play left and Hunter play center. Maybe but i doubt it.

[ANiMAL]

Pedrioa's got a 7 game hit streak. His BA is now .279. This is the Pedrioa I had expected in the Off-season.

 

Lugo now has a .225 BA.

 

Just keeping everyone updated:D

[schillingouttheks]

Eh, despite his suckiness in the leadoff position...when he gets on, he can snag a base. Getting the RBI and the steal every now and then, mixed in with the winning and his solid defense, are the things that are keeping me from absolutely losing my patience with him. I'm not happy with him, but I'm not about to rip him a new one...even though he's testing my patience.

 

Wily Mo should have been playing today instead of Hinske. However, despite Cliff Lee pitching against us tomorrow I think we need to leave Drew in the lineup. You could always throw Wily Mo in there to face the lefty, but Drew had a nice game today and had 4 hard hit balls that he put into play. Let him continue to make contact and settle in.

 

On days where Papi gets off, you need to put Wily Mo and his raw power in there to make up for the loss of power with Papi out of the lineup. Hinske in the lineup doesn't really help anyone. If there's someone I want to get at bats, it's Pena. Not Hinske.

[Mr Crunchy]

duddys ab tonite against gagne was a thing of beauty to watch

outstanding effort and a huge insurance run

im not on board with duddy or drew but we play the hand we're dealt

its not important what we think its important that the gm makes moves that improve our team

i will never agree with them 100% of the time

 

drew had a decent game last nite with 3bbs and had 2 hits today

crisp had a big hit

pedroia added and lugo did something positive,i forgot what it was but it was positive

theos 3 new faces,lugo drew and pedroia,are struggling #s wise yet seem to do what it takes to help the club...its a team game and you will need all 25 guys at some point to help