From: paul on 15 Sep 2009 16:57 On Sep 10, 12:53 pm, Kevin McClave <kmccl...(a)SPAM666twcny.rr.com> wrote: > Dunn is having his typical strong September, batting .310! > > ********************************************************************* > Kevin McClave > > "I believe a place and a people are judged > not just by their accomplishments, but also > by their compassion and sense of justice." > ~Bruce Springsteen > ********************************************************************* Dunn told Chris Welsh, I believe, that he switched to a heavier bat this year (about 2 ounces heavier.) The trend toward lighter bats has, for at least 60 years, tended to raise HR rates as well as strikeouts, while suppressing batting averages: higher bat speed, less control. Since so many of Dunn's blasts are "no-doubters" it makes sense for him to sacrifice a bit of power for a better average. He is apparently breaking fewer bats as well.
From: John Kasupski on 15 Sep 2009 17:22 On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:11:52 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxinfla(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Teach them how to take care of a damned football! They played a beautiful >game then coughed it up with a STUPID return. Yeah, that should have been no return at all. McKelvin got a little overzealous there. Five point lead on the road with two minutes to play, two yards deep in your end zone? He should have taken a knee. Put it on the 20, if they can crank out one first down they can run the QB Kneel a few times and run out the clock. And if you're going to run it out don't carry the damn thing like it's a loaf of bread. I hate it when I see NFL guys doing that. The kids in tyro football here know better than that. But then this NG is about baseball, isn't it... JK
From: John Kasupski on 19 Sep 2009 23:34 On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT), paul <paulhigh(a)infi.net> wrote: >Dunn told Chris Welsh, I believe, that he switched to a heavier bat >this year (about 2 ounces heavier.) The trend toward lighter bats has, >for at least 60 years, tended to raise HR rates as well as strikeouts, >while suppressing batting averages: higher bat speed, less control. > >Since so many of Dunn's blasts are "no-doubters" it makes sense for >him to sacrifice a bit of power for a better average. He is apparently >breaking fewer bats as well. Once the month of September rolls around, it doesn't matter whether Dunn goes up there with a toothpick or a telephone pole. The question is why he bothers to take a bat up there with him at all. Here are some recent Adam Dunn stats from Baseball Reference (which are current thru game of Sept. 18): Entire Season: .278 BA, .961 OPS Last 28 days, .238 /.769 Last 14 days, .211/.680 Last 7 days, .154/.466 The deeper we get into September, the more Adam Dunn looks like Adam Rosales at the dish. The guy has almost as many errors this month (2) as he has extra base hits (3). Yeah, that's right - three extra base hits all month. Wow, what an awesome slugger! This is, by the way, quite in keeping with Dunn's career splits by month. His career splits for Septembers show the lowest BA, OBP, OPS, slugging percentage, and walk totals of any month during the season. And that's with the benefit of a career BABIP for September (.288) that's in the middle for his monthly BABIPs. Good thing for Dunn that his career BABIP for September isn't .266 like it is for August, or his numbers for the month might be so low that his team might simply trade him before September arrived. Oh, wait...that's exactly what the Reds did last year! JK
From: John Kasupski on 19 Sep 2009 23:49 On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:34:33 +0000, John Kasupski <kc2hmz(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote: >The deeper we get into September, the more Adam Dunn looks like Adam Rosales at >the dish. The guy has almost as many errors this month (2) as he has extra base >hits (3). Yeah, that's right - three extra base hits all month. Wow, what an >awesome slugger! Correction: The stats on Baseball Reference hadn't yet been updated to include the games played on Sept. 19 when I looked the info up. It turns out Dunn committed another error in last night's game, a 3-2 Nationals loss to the Mets (the Mets scored their third and final run of the game on the play). So now Dunn does in fact have exactly as many errors this month as he has extra-base hits. I guess maybe now we know why all the top teams in baseball were practically busting down his agent's door to sign him over the winter. JK
From: Bob Braun on 20 Sep 2009 00:54
"John Kasupski" <kc2hmz(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote in message news:866bb55o5pp6kdkj6co64i2ifkis288pr3(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:57:07 -0700 (PDT), paul <paulhigh(a)infi.net> wrote: > >>Dunn told Chris Welsh, I believe, that he switched to a heavier bat >>this year (about 2 ounces heavier.) The trend toward lighter bats has, >>for at least 60 years, tended to raise HR rates as well as strikeouts, >>while suppressing batting averages: higher bat speed, less control. >> >>Since so many of Dunn's blasts are "no-doubters" it makes sense for >>him to sacrifice a bit of power for a better average. He is apparently >>breaking fewer bats as well. > > Once the month of September rolls around, it doesn't matter whether Dunn > goes up > there with a toothpick or a telephone pole. The question is why he bothers > to > take a bat up there with him at all. Here are some recent Adam Dunn stats > from > Baseball Reference (which are current thru game of Sept. 18): > > Entire Season: .278 BA, .961 OPS > Last 28 days, .238 /.769 > Last 14 days, .211/.680 > Last 7 days, .154/.466 > > The deeper we get into September, the more Adam Dunn looks like Adam > Rosales at > the dish. The guy has almost as many errors this month (2) as he has extra > base > hits (3). Yeah, that's right - three extra base hits all month. Wow, what > an > awesome slugger! > > This is, by the way, quite in keeping with Dunn's career splits by month. > His > career splits for Septembers show the lowest BA, OBP, OPS, slugging > percentage, > and walk totals of any month during the season. And that's with the > benefit of a > career BABIP for September (.288) that's in the middle for his monthly > BABIPs. > > Good thing for Dunn that his career BABIP for September isn't .266 like it > is > for August, or his numbers for the month might be so low that his team > might > simply trade him before September arrived. Oh, wait...that's exactly what > the > Reds did last year! > > JK John, John, John..............I can't argue your point that teams weren't beating down the door for Adam Dunn. But you are looking at September and ignoring a couple of elephants in the room. 37 HR's and a .406 OBP! Who do we have like that? Votto was above .400 OBP most of the year, and may still be. Still significantly behind in HR's. We got Adam Dunn out of town, to a lot of people's liking, and opened 2009 with Darnell McDonald! |