April stat bag

Posted on May 2, 2008 by erik

Another idea I cooked up was having a monthly look at various stats. Nothing really orderly, just random statistical info on players. Thanks go to firstinning.com and baseball-reference.com.

Here’s the most hideous stat of the month is that Colby Rasmus has made 89 outs, tied for the 2nd most in all the minors, and just one behind the minor league leader Hainley Statia of the Arkansas Travelers.

Why did Colby make so many outs? Out of all the balls he put into play, only 2% of them were line drives. 40% were grounders, up from 28% last season. It appears that the Raz is hitting a stunning amount of lazy fly balls. One very positive stat is his walk per plate appearance rate-14.3%.

  • Jason Motte’s strikeouts per 9 innings is in 2nd in the minors with 15.32.
  • Mark Worrell has struck out 40.4% of the batters he’s faced (!)
  • Jess Todd leads the farm system in WHIP with 0.82.
  • Tyler Herron has a 12:1 K/BB ratio. His walks per 9 innings is 0.67. That’s just Madduxian.
  • Mark Hamilton needs to hit the ball in the air! 62% of his balls in play are grounders, but 16.7% of the balls he hit in the air have cleared the fence.
  • Jaime Garcia leads the TL with a groundball rate of 62%
  • Daniel Descalso and Jose Martinez are the hardest Cardinal minor leaguers to strikeout. They both have gone down by way of the K in just 8.8% of their plate appearances.
  • Shane Robinson, all 5 feet, 9 inches and 165 pounds of him has an isolated power of .205. 26% of his BIP are line drives.
  • Steve Hill’s .239 ISO leads the farm system.
  • Daniel Descalso, who had a .474 OBA his final year at UC Davis, is walking in just 4.4% of his plate appearances.
  • Daryl Jones has a BABIP of .465.
  • For all I said about Memphis and Springfield having good teams on paper, Palm Beach is 18-8. Their pythagoreon record was 17-9.

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3 Responses to “April stat bag”

  1. poorcollegeguy, on May 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm Said:

    i think you meant K/BB ratio for Herron

  2. Todd, on May 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm Said:

    Even if Daryl Jones stats are largely driven by luck, it’s good to see him have success. Hopefully he keeps his power numbers up (.156 ISO) and uses those tools to improve his prospect status.

    I’m really excited about our starting pitching prospects listed above - Garcia reestablishing his value, Herron and Todd showing great control and healthy strikeout rates. Times are good.

    I’m confident Colby will turn it around. He got off to a slow start last year, too. Cream rises to the top. So do ice cubes.

  3. lassie01, on May 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm Said:

    Colby’s linedrive rate is down right fugly. The one stat that I look at with him that let’s me breath a little easier is his K% is at a career low of 14.6%. That combined with his pretty good walk rate tell me that he’s seeing the ball, he’s just not quite comfortable with his swing right now.

    OTOH, if he had 89 outs and half of them were K’s you’d be talking me off my roof :)

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