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http://www.nctimes.com/article....._19_05.txt

http://www.azcentral.com/sport.....m1020.html

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Because you insist on wearing your wedding ring.

Can’t help you with the 2-1 counts, though it would be interesting to see a breakdown of splits off of a fastball relative to breaking balls, change ups, etc.

Medea’s Child

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I’m running the numbers now for teams hitting on 2-1 counts throughout MLB. Better get a bucket.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/.....livan.html

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I’m convinced that this is a team philosophy when it comes to particular counts. I may sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it seems to me that Bochy and Magadan have instilled a hitting philosophy that lends itself to impatient (read “aggressive”) hitting in strange situations and grounding into a lot of double plays.

This is something I suspected all season. I may have to look at the numebrs more closely…

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1. Klesko and Nevin hitting balls to the warning track instead of over the wall. 2-1 is the count they would be expected to crush the ball but the homers that made it over the wall previously were getting caught at the warning track. Whether it was caused by Petco, aging or the hitting coach I don’t know but it sure seems like they hit a lot of balls to the warning track. You could probably add Loretta to the mix too.

2. Trying too hard to work a walk. Lack of confidence in one’s abilities could lead to a situation where the hitter thinks since he’s ahead in the count he should try to squeeze out a walk. I’m thinking specifically of Burroughs here. When a hitter is thinking defensively even when the count is in his favor he’s not going to do very well. At the very least he wasn’t looking to pull the ball on 2-1, he was looking to slap it to left field.

3. Pitchers exploiting a young player’s weakness. Khalil had a good year last year but has shown a tendency to chase pitches out of the zone this year. Word may have gotten around the league that you don’t have to groove one on 2-1, throw him a slider outside and he’ll wave at it. Same thing with Nady.

Interesting numbers, I’d love to see these for all of MLB. It’s amazing to me that otherwise they’re so consistent.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01850.html

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http://tinyurl.com/bhqud

They’ve got BA/OBP/SLG against pitchers, as well as G/F ratio this year. Check out the G/F ratio of Paul Abraham at Elsinore and Mobile. He’s a bit long in the tooth for a prospect (plus he’s a reliever), but I wonder if he might be a useful part somewhere down the line (in a Jeremy Fikac kind of way).

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