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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, February 18, 2013Sickels: Battle of the Backstops: Mike Zunino vs. Travis D’Arnaud(runs frigid digit down Chez Raoul de la Perlimpinpin’s guest list for D’Arnaud and Zunino)
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: February 18, 2013 at 09:51 AM (#4371268)I like Zunino a lot, although we'll have to see how he handles higher levels at the minors. I thought the scouting report before he was drafted was that he wouldn't stick at catcher, but if he "projects as a long-term every day catcher" then I think he's hands down the better prospect IMO.
The guy put up a 150 wRC+ in AA (311/377/542) and a 147 wRC+ in AAA (333/380/595) the last 2 years. The guy has shown big time power (230 and 260 ISO).
He's a top prospect b/c maybe he can put up a 125 wRC+ in the bigs with good D. That's a perennial all-star.
edit: ZiPs already has him at 99 OPS+ projected.
Or at bat, for that matter.
I never understood this comment. Is it a bad thing for his OBP to be BA heavy? Is it more likely to fluctuate? Is that a bad thing too?
It's still a little sad not to have D'Arnaud with the Jays anymore. Though hopefully Dickey eases the pain.
The last few good Met teams have gotten strong production up the middle. They're not set up particularly well on that front now. D'Arnaud's a good first step along that path; I still think Tejada has some growth left in him, and Wilmer Flores being able to handle 2B would be huge, however unlikely.
My understanding is yes, batting averages tend to fluctuate more.
But, it's more valuable.
A 330/440 AVG/OBP is worth more than 260/400, all else equal, even if the extra BA is singles. A single is worth more than a BB, and it's likely they'll be at least some doubles in the extra BA.
Fun fact: If Zunino has enough impact at the major league level to get added to my 16 years and running Baseball Pro 98 league, he will be last alphabetically. Sneaking in just below Julio Zuleta and Joel Zumaya. I thought I remembered Bob Zupcic being added at one point but it appears not.
And that's this month's totally irrelevant comment about my personal BBPro98 league that no one but me cares about! See you in March!
Edit: Zupcic's career ended 1994, so I guess that wouldn't make sense. Time to dig out my old Microleague baseball files from my Apple IIc.
That seems odd to me at first blush. I thought there were lots of guys in the minors who can walk vs. pitchers with crappy control, but lose that skill when faced with pitchers with good control. It's a classic trope in discussing very low power, high OBP minor leaguers.
I don't really worry much about how much of OBP comes from BA vs BB but BA tends to take a quite large hit when coming from the minors -- on the order of 10-15% when coming from a neutral environment. If a guy doesn't hit at least 300 in the minors, I don't pay a lot of attention to him (not a prospect hound so I only pay attention to the ones touted as potential stars). Still, ignoring Vegas (not good), those are excellent numbers from D'Arnaud but he's still more likely a 270-280 hitter in the majors. A key thing is that he doesn't strike out very much. The K/BB is not good (3:1) but you can certainly live with that in a C with good defense and some pop. I can't see any particularly good reason to think he won't hit as well as Montero or Wieters and sounds like his defense is in the Wieters end of the pool.
Yes, typo.
330 BA, 400 OBP should be more valuable than 260 BA, 400 OBP, b/c of the runner advancement value of a single over a BB.
Assuming equal ISO yes. Assuming equal SLG, not really. Tango looked at this ages ago -- there's a small difference (and not always in the same direction as I recall) but generally ignorable. So it all depends on what you mean by "all else equal."
Because of the different denominators, it's hard to come up with good examples but:
300 BA in 600 AB is 180 hits
450 SLG in 600 AB is 270 TB
add 50 BBs to that (353 OBP)
260 BA in 570 AB is 148 hits
450 SLG in 570 AB is 257 TB
add 80 BBs to that (351 OBP)
You get 30 BB for 13 TB so the second player starts out well ahead (a walk and a base are roughly equal in value). 17 bases is I think about 6 runs. Player A had 32 more hits and the extra value of a hit is about half the value of a base so those 32 hits work out to about 6 runs.
Once you control for OBP and SLG, BA really doesn't matter. This doesn't mean hits don't matter, this means that the impact of getting a hit is already contained in OBP and SLG. Or, if you prefer, you can't compare BA vs OBP until you specify what assumptions you're making about ISO (or SLG). In my example, Player A is hitting for less power (ISO) than B and walking less often but that is balanced by his better ability to get a hit. To the extent that player A hits for the same power (ISO) as B, he is of course the better hitter because they'll have the same OBP but A will have the higher SLG.
It would all be a lot cleaner if we separated it into:
H/PA + BB/PA + XB/PA
where XB is the number of extra bases. Now everything is on the same denominator and we have clearly separated the value of a hit/single from that of a walk from that of an extra base. It also works out pretty similar if you look at (BB + TB)/PA + H/PA
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