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Look what people have to say about the RLYW!

CAIRO just takes the Marcels and changes the underlying assumptions and components in a bunch of ways that make the Yankees look better.
-alskor

Wow, two stupid posts in one day. I think you’ve reached your yearly quota.
sabernar

I don’t know if any of you current posters were around for that, but if so, I just can’t understand how you can call yourselves Yankee fans. Pathetic quitters is what you sounded like. Of the lame posts I could stand to read, the only person who had any confidence in the Yankees at that point was a (yeesh) Red Sox fan.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Curtis Granderson’s Plate Appearance Distribution by Pitcher Handedness

From 2007 through last night.

Year	rPA	rwOBA	lPA	lwOBA	rPA/lPA
2007	543	.426	133	.217	4.08
2008	470	.389	159	.319	2.96
2009	511	.382	199	.221	2.57
2010	143	.358	84	.232	1.70

Year: Duh
rPA: Plate appearances vs. RHP
rwOBA: Weighted on-base average vs. RHP
lPA: Plate appearances vs. LHP
lwOBA: Weighted on-base average vs. LHP
rPA/lPA: Ratio of PAs vs. RHP and LHP (rPA divided by LPA). Higher means a higher percentage of his PAs came against righties.

I’ll again make the point that we can’t yet assume that Granderson’s current career platoon split is what we should expect from him going forward because research shows you need 1000 PAs vs. LHP by a LHB to really know his platoon skill.

I’ll also make the point that a player can contribute in ways beyond the batter’s box in defense and baserunning.

That being said, if you want at least a partial explanation for why Granderson’s had trouble getting going so far this year beyond the simple fact that’s it’s only been 227 PAs, the fact that a much higher percentage of his PAs are coming vs. LHP looks to be at least part of the problem.

Update: So why are the Yankees seeing so many LHP? Blame Canada.

Tm	lBF	rBF	%lBF
NYY	1076	1929	35.8%
BAL	818	2428	25.2%
BOS	731	2529	22.4%
TBR	532	2576	17.1%
TOR	1504	1681	47.2%
AL East	3585	9214	28.0%

lBF: Batters faced by left-handed pitchers
rBF: Batters faced by right-handed pitchers
%lBF: Percentage of total batters faced by left-handed pitchers

The AL East total there does NOT include the Yankees. Also, FWIW:

Tm	lBF	rBF	%lBF
AL East	3585	9214	28.0%
AL Central	3716	11996	23.7%
AL West	4431	8242	35.0%
AL - Yankees	11732	29452	28.5%
NL East	4539	11337	28.6%
NL Central	5385	13796	28.1%
NL West	3735	12174	23.5%
NL Total	13659	37307	26.8%

So AL West teams throw the most lefties on a percentage basis.

Another Update: LHP vs. RHP split for home/road Yankee games:

split	lBF	rBF	%lbf
home	541	1140	32.2%
dnys	568	1009	36.0%

--Posted at 9:55 am by SG / 46 Comments | - (0)

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