Castro .233 BABIP (.307 career) Carter .219 BABIP (.283 career) Springer .219 BABIP (.294 last year) Valbuena .194 BABIP (.269 career) Evan Gattis .187 BABIP (.276 career) We have quite a few guys who have a BABIP that is unsustainably low. Only 13 qualified players in all of baseball have a BABIP under .220, and we have 4 of them. We have the 2nd worst BABIP in baseball at .265 despite having a team LD% that is only slightly below league average, so we have hit into some bad luck. Castro in particular has a staggering 29.9 LD%, which would be good for 9th in the MLB. He has hit into some terrible luck this season (although he was awful last night)
That ump was pathetic. From our point of view, the batters being the same and at the same strike zone weren't getting the same calls as others. He wasn't calling anything right the entire game, be it for us or for them. I won't say he gave us a few that shouldn't have been... but, still, it was obvious that he wasn't calling most pitches "hittable" in the strike zone. I joked every now and then and the ball was way low and said: "Hey, that's a STRIKE, isn't it, UMP?!?!?" I also caught (somewhat) when Altuve got hit first at bat. :grin: I hate this comparison. It will be the excuse all the time. We aren't playing in 26 other parks. Stop making it seem like the air, field, bats, players, etc., are all the same, EXCEPT the distance.
263 guys had 300 PA last year, only 12 had a BABIP under .245, and only 4 had a BABIP under .231. It is a number that almost unfailingly regularize up around at least .250, and even that would be considered pretty unlucky. And to put Castro's LD% into perspective using the 300 PA qualifier again, 21 guys had a LD% over 25.5 last year, every single one of them had a BABIP over .300. Castro has a LD% of 29.9, and has a BABIP of .233. If he keeps putting good wood on the ball he's due for a hot streak.
Not sure how you drew that conclusion. The 5 players mentioned are clearly performing under their career numbers. Offensively, the only player with significant playing time that is performing above expectations is Marisnick.
I was watching the A's broadcast and I hate how CSN doesn't use a K-zone system. There were a couple of painful strike 3s that Lance didn't get the call on.
The call on the fast ball where he was about a foot off the catchers mit but well within the strike zone? Next inning Polmeranz put one about two inches farther out and an inch lower and got the call. That ump was perennial garbage. That missed call led to hit for same batter/an A's run.
(Root), but they showed the K zone thing periodically on replays--esp when Lance didn't get those calls. To be fair, he got plenty of calls he didn't deserve, and the ump screwed over both sides a ton. He was just bad.
That was one of them. That one was definitely a missed call, even the A's telecast was saying that was a strike.
I was watching Oakland broadcast, and they are a CSN network. I know Root shows them from watching the Mariners broadcast. For whatever reason, the streaming sites I use are never the Astros feed (and last time they played the Rangers there was a game with no feeds for either team).
It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized not all batters have the same strike zone. If umpires were fair enough to say that any ball that can be put into play by the batter that the catchers keep is a strike, it would be fair. Last night that wasn't happening. Either too low or too high (at least from my point of view) were being called strikes. I saw Springer swing and miss at high pitches and I was thinking piñatas, not pitches... so I can see how the umpire thought those were hittable, but still unfairly.
They are all performing under their career numbers, but the post he was referencing was showing the low BABIP averages. That shows bad luck, not under-performance.
ohhh, got it--misinterpreted your statement. that sucks that they don't use it. I was irritated at Root for not having it up constantly. Maybe I'm too used to video games, but I'd prefer to have the K zone up on the side during and after every pitch with the sequence up for each batter. I got back on mlb.tv this year--hypothetically, splitting it with 3 people doesn't mess you up in terms of # of connections but certainly defrays the cost!
I feel the same way about the K-Zone. Never understood why they don't show it constantly. Especially considering all the other information they are giving these days. Last year when I had it I would sometimes switch to the opponent's feed to see if they showed K-zone for close pitches. I'd still have it if I was splitting it 3 ways. It is a very good deal at less than $50 a person. I can't justify the cost right now when I can watch the games mostly for free, but with sacrificing quality. Plus they removed At Bat for Windows Phones, so I can't stream games on my phone anymore.
