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Monday, May 05, 2008

THT: Brown: Putting pressure on the defense

“Using the Three True Outcomes, a look at five players who specialized in making the defense work”...or why my Bobby Richardson “Challenge the Yankees” card had more rips in it than a Richard Hell pus-enhanced t-shirt.

He finds himself here because for the 1963 season, he cut his walk to 3.6 percent and strikeout rate to 3.5 percent, but remained in line with his average output as a hitter. Over his 12 year career, Richardson hit .266/.299/.335 with 34 home runs.

While Richardson was a revered member of those World Champion Yankee teams, he was an out machine. He finished second in outs in 1963 which was the only year from 1961 to 1965 where he did not lead the league in that category. It didn’t help that he routinely hit leadoff or second later in his career.

While the 1963 Yankees won the AL pennant for the fourth straight year, they certainly carried a bunch of low OBP players. Richardson at .294 along with Clete Boyer at .295 and shortstop Tony Kubek at .294 helped hold the Yankees team OBP to .307 which ranked them seventh out of 10 teams in the league.

That Kubek led off and Richardson hit second for Ralph Houk’s team would melt the internets if that happened today. I’m pretty sure Tom Tresh wasn’t happy about his lack of RBI opportunities.

Repoz Posted: May 05, 2008 at 08:10 AM | 3 comment(s)
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   1. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: May 05, 2008 at 09:17 AM (#2769112)
had he pushed back his analysis by 2 years, he would have picked up 2 guys who beat Alou: Don Mueller at 6.5% and Harvey Kuenn at 6.75%, both in 1954

this type of player seems to have disappeared from MLB: if you look for seasons with a "three-true-outcome" percentage of less than 10% (while qualifiying for the batting title), there have been none since 1997 when both DiSarcina and Ozzie Guillen did it (Ozzie also had a 7.8% season in 96)
   2. jwb Posted: May 05, 2008 at 02:45 PM (#2769496)
Offensively, these guys are Neifi Perez with less power.
   3. Walt Davis Posted: May 05, 2008 at 11:18 PM (#2770251)
this type of player seems to have disappeared from MLB:

Howie Kendrick got off to a great start -- 1 K, 1 BB, 0 HR in 38 PA. Also a line of 500/526/694. I'll go out on a limb and say he can't sustain that line when he returns. :-)
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