From: paul on
On Sep 10, 12:53 pm, Kevin McClave <kmccl...(a)SPAM666twcny.rr.com>
wrote:
> Dunn is having his typical strong September, batting .310!
>
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>
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> not just by their accomplishments, but also
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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
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
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
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

"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!


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