No Way, a post??
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Career plate discipline numbers for two patient Twins hitters:
| O-Swing% | Z-Swing% | Swing% | O-Contact% | Z-Contact% | Contact% | Zone% | F-Strike% |
| 18.10% | 56.20% | 37.50% | 72.90% | 93.60% | 88.70% | 51.00% | 53.50% |
| 16.70% | 60.00% | 39.70% | 64.50% | 95.50% | 89.40% | 53.20% | 57.00% |
Who might those two hitters be?
The first is Joe Mauer, the 2nd is Denard Span. Yes, Span's numbers look better. His K and BB rates aren't quite what Mauer's are, but with pitch recognition and contact ability like that it certainly looks like we can expect Span to continue getting on base at a phenominal rate.
At this point I don't think it would be much of a stretch to say that going forward Span is almost certainly the Twins 3rd best position player.
Also, so far Crede really seems to be living up to my prediction that he would be a defensive upgrade over Buscher/Harris but not much of an offensive upgrade. He currently leads all ML 3b in UZR but has been a below average hitter at 3rd.
Finally, if I keep posting (which is a big if) I'm going to mix it up and not only add music to the end of my posts. This one is just funny and makes a very good point:
Posted bySL__72 at 10:11 PM 1 comments
Labels: Denard Span, Joe Crede, Joe Mauer
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