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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 |
Pickoff Moves
Does GA Bounce Out To Second A Lot?
Mike DiGiovanna answers a fan question about GA bouncing out to second:Q: I have watched the Angels on satellite for about 100 games per year. For the past 13 years, is there a way to measure the percentage of outs Garret Anderson hits to second base compared with any other outs he makes? I would bet it must be a major league record for most 4-3 outs.The first bit is actually pretty easy to do if you use Baseball Reference's Event Finder. The comparison against other lefties is a bit tougher, as it's not readily possible to get those numbers. Fortunately, I am a gullible soul, and believe posts I read on BTF, which claims he's about 11% worse than other lefties.
Dan, Matawan, N.J.
A: Man, it must be Bash Garret Week or something. Determining Anderson's percentage of outs hit to second base is easy, Dan, just divide the number of times he grounds out to second by the total number of outs he has made. What, you don't have the scorecards from every game the Angels have played in the last 13 years? The Angels do, and if you're willing to spend a few hours or days in their offices pouring over scorecards, you could figure it out. Otherwise, you'd need to get the play-by-play accounts of all those games, and for that I'd start at www.retrosheet.org. Otherwise, I would contact the Angels public relations department. One other thing: Yes, Anderson has his share of groundouts to second, but if you've been watching the Angels for 13 years, your memory may have been blurred a bit by all those ground balls Darin Erstad and Adam Kennedy hit to second base too.
Houlton Holds 'Em As Betemit Blasts Braves: Dodgers 7, Braves 6
The feature of this game was Wilson Betemit and his 3-for-4 night with a two-run homer, but to me, D.J. Houlton's successful three-inning return was the bigger story. Pitching three innings of scoreless, one-hit ball with a vaporizing curve that he had working very well, Houlton may turn into this month's flavor of Hong-Chih Kuo, but in the meantime, I'm all in favor of giving him playing time ahead of Rudy Seanez in the bullpen if need be.Randy Wolf's bad start, coming as it has on several that weren't all that impressive lately, seemed at first to be cause for mild alarm, but a quick look at his record shows that this was the first real blowout he's had all year. In fact, you'd have to look all the way back to a August 25, 2003 12-1 blowout by the Expos to find a start where he's been this bad. Unless he's hiding an injury — and I don't think there's any evidence of that yet — he'll likely rebound. Update: Or not. Wolf will skip his next start and may wind up on the DL with an indeterminate shoulder injury.
The Michael Barrett Curse?
Factoid regarding the Michael Barrett trade, thanks to the miraculous Baseball-Reference:Team To 6/20 Post-6/20 ========================== Cubs 32-38 10-2 Padres 41-29 6-6Jes' sayin'.
OT: Happy 4th!
Don't blow yourself up, now.Labels: angels, braves, dodgers, padres, recaps
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