Hacking on a 2-1 Count
Thursday, October 20, 2005by Geoff Young
Yesterday we talked about the Padres' inability to hit on a 2-1 count. We speculated on reasons why this might be so. Reader Anthony suggested that some hard hit balls may have died on the warning track at Petco or that some players might be thinking walk first when they get ahead in the count. Dex suspects there might be an organizational philosophy that leads to an overly aggressive approach in certain situations.
The Padres numbers seemed pretty anemic to me, but it's difficult to know for sure without any context. I thought it might prove instructive to run numbers on all 30 MLB teams and see how the Padres stack up against ...
