His words, not mine:
“A lot of statistical people seem to be a huge on-base percentage thing. And I don’t ever — it seems like 15 or 20 years ago it wasn’t a big deal. I don’t know. All of a sudden, it has become one.”
His words, not mine:
“A lot of statistical people seem to be a huge on-base percentage thing. And I don’t ever — it seems like 15 or 20 years ago it wasn’t a big deal. I don’t know. All of a sudden, it has become one.”
He’s so smart.
Poor Frenchie.
Getting on-base, that’s false hustle.
“Absolutely, if nobody is on base, do I want to get something going? Yeah, you wanna be selective and see what you can do. But, if there’s a guy on third with one out, I’m just trying to hit the ball to second base or to the shortstop if he’s back and get the run in. And, if that causes my OBP to be 10 points lower than, you know, I’m not that concerned about it.”
OBP with RISP: .333
OBP with bases empty: .309
Maybe he should pretend somebody’s on base.
Yea, taking walks and being patient is really new, nobody ever focused on it until moneyball. That’s why Ted Williams and Babe Ruth had such low OBP’s and never looked to walk. Wait, what?
So how’s that strategy working for him? With runners in scoring position and fewer than 2 outs he hit .216 with a strikeout every at bats (22 of 88). Even if walks were meaningless, he should change strategies so his scouting report stops reading “0-2 when he steps in the box.”
(that should say a strikeout every 4 at bats)