We have 5 starters with an OPS over .800 and 7 with an OPS over .750. And one of the other 2 is Betts. Those are some sweet numbers. Very much like 2013.
I don't really believe much in defining games, especially this early in the season. However, the team is playing impressive baseball, battling hard for 9 innings, and a lot of guys are hitting. Fun to watch right now.
I guarantee it's true, and I respectfully disagree that it's useless. It tries to account for the fact that platoon players often stay in for the entire game, simply because you don't have an unlimited bench.
Strictly for clarification purposes:
The stat 'vs LH starters' actually represents all numbers for games that were started by lefties, not all numbers vs. lefty starters. So it also includes numbers vs. righty relievers in those games.
Teams will give up a lot in deadline deals when they think have a legit shot. Baltimore gave us E-Rod for a few months of Andrew Miller. There are worse deadline tradeoffs than Iggy all the time.
Speaking of Ortiz, that was quite a show last night. A towering bomb to turn the game around off a lefty who had never given up a home run to a LH hitter before. Then an RBI single against the shift. Then he tries to bunt his last time up. And he seemed to be grinning and goofing around throughout the whole game.