Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Perry: Josh Hamilton and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad night
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Dayn misspelled Manu Ginobili.
Read More...Not only did the Angels on Tuesday night squander a rare-as-a-comet Joe Blanton gem, but they also lost at home in extras to the generally hapless Mariners. Looking for a main offender? It has to be Josh Hamilton.
Hamilton is of course struggling badly in 2013, but Tuesday’s performance may have been the worst of his career. Here’s his unfortunate line for the night: 0-for-5, 2 Ks, 3 GIDPs, 7 LOB. Sign of a bad game at the plate? When going 0-for-5 with five ...
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1 2 >OK, we never have to hear any of those phrases again.
Good month so far. He put on a show last night (2 hits, homer, 2 stolen bases, walk) and it was fun listening to Vin Scully gush over his talent.
Tim Salmon pun.
This will not do! It is just laziness disguised as meta humor. If you've got a Tim Salmon pun up your sleeve, I dare you to use it.
I think it's total plate appearances while filling the role of left fielder. Trout and Trumbo have been used elsewhere.
Trout is 2 starts behind Bourjos at the CF position.
Trumbo is nowhere near any starting-player designation since he has played 4 games at 1B, 8 games at 3B, 12 games at LF, 20 games at RF, and 8 games at DH.
I'm fairly sure it is just the games or innings or PA leader at each position, and because they split positions while Wells was mostly in LF, neither Trout nor Trumbo lead the team at any one position. Which is annoying (knowing who the actual starter was intended to be on each day tells us more than just playing time), but understandable given that it has to go back to 1876.
Crap, there goes all my Coke.
Ditto - I was thinking it was from the Jersey Devil episode of the X-files, but not certain...
dingdingding!
I was checking Trout's strikeout rate last night as well, and he and Pujols have both slashed their K rates over the past couple of weeks with no loss of power--must be something in the water. I never cared about the Angels one way or another outside of the 2002 Series, but if they're going to have Pujols, Haren, Weaver (who I've liked ever since he put on the BotB to join his brother on the field after Game 5 of the 2006 World Series), and the latter-day Tyrus R. Cobb together for a few more years, I might have to tune into a few more of their broadcasts.
Checking BBRef.com, he is already LEADING the AL in SBs with 15.
Why not? Nobody (well almost nobody) gets IBB with bases empty. So you can IBB Trout when someone at the bottom of the order is on base. Especially if it's one of the catchers, who usually hit 9th. That's probably the only way to slow down Trout - he's not allowed to pass the catcher on the bases.
With Trout being on the Angels, I assumed that would never happen.
Pujols since May 15: .344 / .407 / .677 over 25 games (8 2b, 8 HR, 3 SB).
Also on a nice little streak, with two hits in each of his last six games.
Trout since May 15: .385 / .440 / .577, also 25 games (5 2b, 3 3b, 3 HR, 11 SB).
Trout has a fluky-high BABIP during this time; Pujols doesn't.
Would it be fair to say that, because Trout is essentially an unknown to opponents, they don't know how to position the defense to get him out more frequently?
He is channeling Enzo Hernandez.
EDIT: Gratuitous snark removed.
unless repoz is solely referencing bill's uncanny ability to lead the world in humpback liners
Trout's spray chart. Right now, it looks like you have to play him straight up.
The effect would be a few hits that would be outs if the opponents knew better where to position themselves. A few hits are perceptible.
YM Kevin Bass
C: Steve Pickerell (minors)
1B: Mike Carp
2B: Johnny Ray
3B: Melvin Mora
SS: Harry Spratt
OF: Mike Trout
OF: Kevin Bass
OF: Tim Salmon
DH: Sid Bream
SP: Catfish Hunter
RP: George Haddock
Agreed.
Especially with defensive metrics and heavy shifts all the rage -- I suspect that there MIGHT well be something to this... But it may well be also true that there's really no 'best' alignment beyond playing him straight up.
Can someone share observations about Trumbo's D? Dramatically unsatisfactory at 3B? Is he average at 1B, how is he in the OF? They HAVE to continue to play him for his bat at this point, I would assume.
Looks like he's been playing LF every day since Hunter's been back (other alignment is Hunter out, Bourjos in at CF, Trout to LF, Trumbo to RF), and Morales is pretty much locked in at DH. Is Morales not able to play the field at all? He's had 1 start at 1B, none in the OF. What happens when Wells comes back - looks like that's in about a month?
He's a superfast spray line drive hitter. How much more are we going to learn and how many hits will it save, and how will we ever be able to evaluate these things?
I maintain that the idea that this is contributing to his too-high babip in a meaningful way is a bit silly.
Dismissive reference to Chien-Ming Wang.
I think you are probably right about it being imperceptible, but not because the effect is "so tiny" as you said in the other post. If there was some effect of bad positioning, it wouldn't be tiny because he has so few at-bats that a few hits would change his BA and BABIP. Just because we can't at this point (or maybe ever) evaluate and quantify the effect doesn't eliminate the possibility that teams are mis-positioning themselves against him thus far.
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