Soriano Postseason Numbers

[anabiono]

I don't buy the "small sample size, bad luck" explanation though. How stunning is your bad luck when you swing at crap down and away a foot off the plate?

 

i'm not saying its going to happen...but if...IF...he can have one of his patented hot streaks in the post season...his numbers won't be as terrible anymore...just saying

[Derwood]

I don't think there's a single player who says to himself, "Hey, I'm making a Howry load of money, so I'll just dog it during the playoffs."

 

This is such a cop out explanation and almost certainly untrue.

[SouthSideRyan]

I've still yet to see an explanation as to why pitchers don't throw low and away sliders to Soriano every pitch of every AB of every season if that's all it takes.

[KingCubsFan]

I don't buy the "small sample size, bad luck" explanation though. How stunning is your bad luck when you swing at crap down and away a foot off the plate?

 

i'm not saying its going to happen...but if...IF...he can have one of his patented hot streaks in the post season...his numbers won't be as terrible anymore...just saying

He's been in the postseason five times and has never been good. He's not a very good cold-weather player and he has huge holes in his swing. I really don't see it ever happening.

[TruffleShuffle]

Julio Lugo, yes that would've been the answer. He's been awful the last 2 years. At least he's not me first though. He makes sure his wife gets her hits before he worries about his own.

 

did everyone miss this?

 

:rotfl:

[badnews]

I've still yet to see an explanation as to why pitchers don't throw low and away sliders to Soriano every pitch of every AB of every season if that's all it takes.

 

Hell, you're not the only one. I'd like to know that too. And I'm on the anti-Soriano side. These fools keep throwing him the high balls that tail into the hitter that he simply crushes.

 

A lot of the times though, Soriano gets a lot better look at low/outside breaking pitches against lefties than he does righties. I mean the reason his numbers against lefties are so good is that he beats the **** out of Phil Dumatrait, Paul Maholm, Tom Gorzelanny, Zach Duke, the Pirates and their army of incompetent lefthanded pitching are screwing up our numbers in reality.

 

I'd also like to know, did anyone in baseball face more 0-2 counts than Soriano in 2008?

[Fred Hornkohl]

I mean the reason his numbers against lefties are so good is that he beats the **** out of Phil Dumatrait, Paul Maholm, Tom Gorzelanny, Zach Duke, the Pirates and their army of incompetent lefthanded pitching are screwing up our numbers in reality.

 

 

Soriano            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
vs Duke            14    2    9    2    0    1    2    0    2  0.643  0.643  1.000  1.643  0.727  3.36  0.000  0.200
vs Gorzelanny       5    2    2    0    0    2    4    0    1  0.400  0.400  1.600  2.000  0.000  3.00  0.000  1.000
vs Maholm           7    2    2    1    0    1    2    0    1  0.286  0.286  0.857  1.143  0.200  2.43  0.000  1.000
vs Dumatrait        7    0    2    0    0    0    1    1    0  0.286  0.333  0.286  0.619  0.286  5.00  0.048  0.500

Totals             33    6   15    3    0    4    9    1    4  0.455  0.457  0.909  1.366  0.440  3.54  0.048  0.500
vs Pitts LHP       40    8   17    3    0    5   10    1    7  0.425  0.429  0.875  1.304  0.429  3.60  0.004  0.455
totals vs. Pitt    72   16   30    7    0    6   11    4   11  0.417  0.442  0.764  1.205  0.436  3.66  0.025  0.217
season totals     467   78  128   27    0   29   75   43  107  0.274  0.337  0.518  0.855  0.299  3.71  0.062  0.215

[SouthSideRyan]

It seems impossible for anyone to not know that Soriano has murdered Sabathia in his career. Why would you open yourself to that kind of rebuttal?

[badnews]

Sabathia's lefthanded, he hangs around in the zone most than more pitchers, and his really bread-and-butter pitch is his fastball. Soriano will get some good looks at lefthanded pitching.

 

Soriano has 13 career strikeouts in 38 ABs vs. Bronson Arroyo. Is this because Bronson Arroyo is a strikeout badass? No, it's because Bronson Arroyo has an arsenal of crappy breaking pitches, none of them that good, for Soriano to chase. I really can't think of anyone in the majors who uses a breaking pitch more than Arroyo.

 

Here's another example. Why does Soriano have 14 strikeouts in 39 ABs vs. Zito? Yes, Zito is a lefty, but what is significant about Zito? The answer is, no one throws fewer first pitch strikes in the majors (he's usually the leader from year to year) than Zito. Zito will throw crappy breaking pitches outside of the zone all day long until he finds a hitter he actually stands a chance of getting out. I mean, yes, Barry Zito used to be good, but Soriano has a .363 OPS against him, there's probably no major pitcher in baseball more terrified of throwing strikes than Zito.

[abuck1220]

soriano has good career numbers against wakefield, escobar, lohse, carpenter, snell, garland, smoltz, haren, kevin brown...all righthanders who are capable of throwing offspeed stuff out of the zone if that's all it took to retire soriano every time. not to mention good numbers against lefty soft tossers like mulder, glavine and lilly.

[Sammy Sofa]

soriano has good career numbers against wakefield, escobar, lohse, carpenter, snell, garland, smoltz, haren, kevin brown...all righthanders who are capable of throwing offspeed stuff out of the zone if that's all it took to retire soriano every time. not to mention good numbers against lefty soft tossers like mulder, glavine and lilly.

 

Damn you making it so difficult to pigeonhole him, abuck. WHY MUST YOU BE SO DIFFICULT?

[badnews]

You made a list of pitchers, but you didn't make a list of pitchers that fit the bill.

 

I already said Soriano gets good looks at lefties. Why are we still bring up lefties?

 

Most of the guys on that list are control artists. Smoltz stays in the zone. Haren stays in the zone. Those guys don't even use so much breaking pitches away as they use breaking pitches in the dirt.

 

We're really determined here to pretend like Soriano doesn't swing at breaking pitches low and more importantly outside too often aren't we? It's going to be like an Emperor's New Clothes thing, isn't it?

 

I mean really, Kevin Brown? Kevin Brown's bread and butter isn't throwing crappy breaking pitches low and outside. This isn't even plausible. Kelvim Escobar? Come on. Why don't you just list random pitchers.

[SouthSideRyan]

You made a list of pitchers, but you didn't make a list of pitchers that fit the bill.

 

I already said Soriano gets good looks at lefties. Why are we still bring up lefties?

 

Most of the guys on that list are control artists. Smoltz stays in the zone. Haren stays in the zone. Those guys don't even use so much breaking pitches away as they use breaking pitches in the dirt.

 

We're really determined here to pretend like Soriano doesn't swing at breaking pitches low and more importantly outside too often aren't we? It's going to be like an Emperor's New Clothes thing, isn't it?

 

I mean really, Kevin Brown? Kevin Brown's bread and butter isn't throwing crappy breaking pitches low and outside. This isn't even plausible. Kelvim Escobar? Come on. Why don't you just list random pitchers.

 

So badnews, you believe that a control artist, somebody who has great control, is incapable of throwing the ball low and away? Do you believe that pitchers don't alter their approach when their facing different hitters?

 

Wouldn't it make more sense that pitchers with poor control, who would be more likely to miss their spots be the one that struggle with Soriano, whereas a guy who can find that spot out of the zone would abuse him?

[Sammy Sofa]

We're really determined here to pretend like Soriano doesn't swing at breaking pitches low and more importantly outside too often aren't we? It's going to be like an Emperor's New Clothes thing, isn't it?

 

Ridiculous. Nobody is doing anything of the sort.

[abuck1220]

You made a list of pitchers, but you didn't make a list of pitchers that fit the bill.

 

I already said Soriano gets good looks at lefties. Why are we still bring up lefties?

 

Most of the guys on that list are control artists. Smoltz stays in the zone. Haren stays in the zone. Those guys don't even use so much breaking pitches away as they use breaking pitches in the dirt.

 

We're really determined here to pretend like Soriano doesn't swing at breaking pitches low and more importantly outside too often aren't we? It's going to be like an Emperor's New Clothes thing, isn't it?

 

I mean really, Kevin Brown? Kevin Brown's bread and butter isn't throwing crappy breaking pitches low and outside. This isn't even plausible. Kelvim Escobar? Come on. Why don't you just list random pitchers.

 

wow, this is just an atrocious post top to bottom.

 

everyone realizes that soriano has a tendency to occasionally swing at garbage. however, if it were as simple as just throwing breaking pitches low and away, don't you think "control artists" like haren and smoltz would do just that to retire him? i mean, they're "control artists" after all.

[KingCubsFan]

You made a list of pitchers, but you didn't make a list of pitchers that fit the bill.

 

I already said Soriano gets good looks at lefties. Why are we still bring up lefties?

 

Most of the guys on that list are control artists. Smoltz stays in the zone. Haren stays in the zone. Those guys don't even use so much breaking pitches away as they use breaking pitches in the dirt.

 

We're really determined here to pretend like Soriano doesn't swing at breaking pitches low and more importantly outside too often aren't we? It's going to be like an Emperor's New Clothes thing, isn't it?

 

I mean really, Kevin Brown? Kevin Brown's bread and butter isn't throwing crappy breaking pitches low and outside. This isn't even plausible. Kelvim Escobar? Come on. Why don't you just list random pitchers.

 

wow, this is just an atrocious post top to bottom.

 

everyone realizes that soriano has a tendency to occasionally swing at garbage. however, if it were as simple as just throwing breaking pitches low and away, don't you think "control artists" like haren and smoltz would do just that to retire him? i mean, they're "control artists" after all.

In his defense, you're using guys whose best pitch is their fastball (except Lohse). They use the fastball to get ahead of hitters. He's pointing towards junkball pitchers who don't have a plus fastball and hope to get hitters out by swinging at crap outside the zone.

[abuck1220]

so because smoltz's best pitch is his fb, he's like "well, i could get him out by throwing crap out of the zone (which i'm perfectly capable of doing), but because my best pitch is my fastball, i'm going to throw him one so he can hit a moonshot off me."

[KingCubsFan]

so because smoltz's best pitch is his fb, he's like "well, i could get him out by throwing crap out of the zone (which i'm perfectly capable of doing), but because my best pitch is my fastball, i'm going to throw him one so he can hit a moonshot off me."

I don't know, I'm not a pitcher. Why didn't people just throw Jim Edmonds high fastballs all the time when he was in his prime? It would be an interesting thing to ask good pitchers about their approach when facing hitters like that.

[abuck1220]

because 1) he really doesn't swing and miss at every low and away slider and 2) throwing a pitch exactly where you want it every time is easier said than done.

[KingCubsFan]

I think that goes without saying

[imb]

you guys are going to have to realize that badnews is our resident crappy sports columnist

 

*takes hot button baseball issue*

 

*takes negative stance*

 

*makes up a lot of stuff, pretends everyone believes the opposite*

 

*leaves for a week*

 

*does it again*

[SouthSideRyan]

you guys are going to have to realize that badnews is our resident crappy sports columnist

 

*takes hot button baseball issue*

 

*takes negative stance*

 

*makes up a lot of stuff, pretends everyone believes the opposite*

 

*leaves for a week*

 

*does it again*

 

Wrong crazy person thread.

[Mephistopheles]

I've still yet to see an explanation as to why pitchers don't throw low and away sliders to Soriano every pitch of every AB of every season if that's all it takes.

Because every pitcher can't throw one consistently good like most good pitchers cannot?

 

anyways, this shows how poor soriano is at laying off of sliders (or curves) off the plate from righties. The top portion is like the who's who of crap. The bottom portion is like the who's who of awesome hitters. With one or two exceptions of course. Only right-handed batters facing sliders/curves off the plate coming from righty pitchers.

+----------+-------------+------+------+-----+--------+--------+
| first    | last        | Con  | Sw   | NP  | SwRt   | ConRt  |
+----------+-------------+------+------+-----+--------+--------+
| Angel    | Berroa      |   45 |   63 | 105 | 0.6000 | 0.7143 |
| Jesus    | Flores      |   38 |   84 | 145 | 0.5793 | 0.4524 |
| Adam     | Jones       |   68 |  110 | 190 | 0.5789 | 0.6182 |
| Miguel   | Olivo       |   27 |   72 | 137 | 0.5255 | 0.3750 |
| Bengie   | Molina      |   75 |   94 | 180 | 0.5222 | 0.7979 |
| Carlos   | Gomez       |   70 |  129 | 254 | 0.5079 | 0.5426 |
| Adrian   | Beltre      |   64 |  113 | 229 | 0.4934 | 0.5664 |
| Alfonso  | Soriano     |   66 |  131 | 268 | 0.4888 | 0.5038 |
| Ryan     | Braun       |   59 |  101 | 209 | 0.4833 | 0.5842 |
| Torii    | Hunter      |   46 |   97 | 201 | 0.4826 | 0.4742 |
| Damion   | Easley      |   30 |   51 | 106 | 0.4811 | 0.5882 |
| Vladimir | Guerrero    |   69 |  115 | 241 | 0.4772 | 0.6000 |
| Kevin    | Kouzmanoff  |   33 |   90 | 190 | 0.4737 | 0.3667 |
| Clint    | Barmes      |   38 |   65 | 139 | 0.4676 | 0.5846 |
| Jorge    | Cantu       |   79 |  144 | 309 | 0.4660 | 0.5486 |
| Aaron    | Rowand      |   43 |  109 | 236 | 0.4619 | 0.3945 |
| Howie    | Kendrick    |   20 |   54 | 117 | 0.4615 | 0.3704 |
| Khalil   | Greene      |   27 |   64 | 142 | 0.4507 | 0.4219 |
| Mike     | Aviles      |   26 |   50 | 113 | 0.4425 | 0.5200 |
| Jose     | Castillo    |   35 |   73 | 166 | 0.4398 | 0.4795 |
| Jerry    | HairstonJr. |   34 |   46 | 105 | 0.4381 | 0.7391 |
| Willy    | Taveras     |   43 |   54 | 127 | 0.4252 | 0.7963 |
| John     | Buck        |   27 |   53 | 125 | 0.4240 | 0.5094 |
| Alexei   | Ramirez     |   53 |   91 | 217 | 0.4194 | 0.5824 |
| Ben      | Francisco   |   40 |   78 | 187 | 0.4171 | 0.5128 |
| Jeff     | Mathis      |   28 |   65 | 156 | 0.4167 | 0.4308 |
| Jeff     | Francoeur   |   66 |  107 | 257 | 0.4163 | 0.6168 |
| Ty       | Wigginton   |   28 |   72 | 174 | 0.4138 | 0.3889 |
| Miguel   | Tejada      |   43 |   77 | 189 | 0.4074 | 0.5584 |
| Edwin    | Encarnacion |   50 |   84 | 208 | 0.4038 | 0.5952 |
| Delmon   | Young       |   47 |   93 | 231 | 0.4026 | 0.5054 |
| Freddy   | Sanchez     |   64 |  101 | 251 | 0.4024 | 0.6337 |
| Yorvit   | Torrealba   |   21 |   43 | 107 | 0.4019 | 0.4884 |
| Miguel   | Cabrera     |   44 |   95 | 239 | 0.3975 | 0.4632 |
| Reed     | Johnson     |   32 |   41 | 104 | 0.3942 | 0.7805 |
| Scott    | Rolen       |   28 |   52 | 132 | 0.3939 | 0.5385 |
| Rod      | Barajas     |   31 |   60 | 153 | 0.3922 | 0.5167 |
| Kelly    | Shoppach    |   23 |   66 | 170 | 0.3882 | 0.3485 |
| Yuniesky | Betancourt  |   36 |   54 | 141 | 0.3830 | 0.6667 |
| J.J.     | Hardy       |   49 |   80 | 209 | 0.3828 | 0.6125 |
| Xavier   | Nady        |   42 |   72 | 190 | 0.3789 | 0.5833 |
| Vernon   | Wells       |   24 |   53 | 140 | 0.3786 | 0.4528 |
| Matt     | Holliday    |   34 |   76 | 202 | 0.3762 | 0.4474 |
| Franklin | Gutierrez   |   43 |   71 | 189 | 0.3757 | 0.6056 |
| Brandon  | Phillips    |   41 |  101 | 269 | 0.3755 | 0.4059 |
| Hunter   | Pence       |   59 |  126 | 339 | 0.3717 | 0.4683 |
| Carlos   | Quentin     |   45 |   76 | 207 | 0.3671 | 0.5921 |
| Kevin    | Youkilis    |   47 |   81 | 221 | 0.3665 | 0.5802 |
| Andy     | Marte       |   17 |   37 | 102 | 0.3627 | 0.4595 |
| Kenji    | Johjima     |   27 |   46 | 128 | 0.3594 | 0.5870 |
| Jose     | Guillen     |   50 |   75 | 209 | 0.3589 | 0.6667 |
| Lastings | Milledge    |   46 |   91 | 254 | 0.3583 | 0.5055 |
| Billy    | Butler      |   27 |   57 | 161 | 0.3540 | 0.4737 |
| Jason    | Bartlett    |   24 |   46 | 130 | 0.3538 | 0.5217 |
| Jeff     | Keppinger   |   39 |   51 | 145 | 0.3517 | 0.7647 |
| Ivan     | Rodriguez   |   27 |   45 | 129 | 0.3488 | 0.6000 |
| Marlon   | Byrd        |   26 |   49 | 142 | 0.3451 | 0.5306 |
| Brandon  | Inge        |   23 |   48 | 141 | 0.3404 | 0.4792 |
| Carlos   | Lee         |   38 |   55 | 162 | 0.3395 | 0.6909 |
| Mike     | Lowell      |   34 |   57 | 169 | 0.3373 | 0.5965 |
| Placido  | Polanco     |   37 |   44 | 131 | 0.3359 | 0.8409 |
| Pedro    | Feliz       |   34 |   60 | 180 | 0.3333 | 0.5667 |
| Josh     | Willingham  |   37 |   62 | 186 | 0.3333 | 0.5968 |
| Marcus   | Thames      |   25 |   42 | 126 | 0.3333 | 0.5952 |
| Andruw   | Jones       |   16 |   38 | 114 | 0.3333 | 0.4211 |
| Conor    | Jackson     |   44 |   69 | 208 | 0.3317 | 0.6377 |
| Edgar    | Renteria    |   30 |   43 | 132 | 0.3258 | 0.6977 |
| Paul     | Konerko     |   26 |   62 | 191 | 0.3246 | 0.4194 |
| Alex     | Rodriguez   |   23 |   42 | 130 | 0.3231 | 0.5476 |
| Matt     | Kemp        |   30 |   82 | 254 | 0.3228 | 0.3659 |
| Juan     | Uribe       |   22 |   47 | 146 | 0.3219 | 0.4681 |
| Mark     | Ellis       |   30 |   56 | 175 | 0.3200 | 0.5357 |
| Bill     | Hall        |   22 |   40 | 126 | 0.3175 | 0.5500 |
| Jeff     | Kent        |   18 |   38 | 120 | 0.3167 | 0.4737 |
| Rickie   | Weeks       |   29 |   65 | 206 | 0.3155 | 0.4462 |
| Chris    | Iannetta    |   21 |   52 | 165 | 0.3152 | 0.4038 |
| David    | Wright      |   43 |   86 | 273 | 0.3150 | 0.5000 |
| Andy     | LaRoche     |   21 |   33 | 105 | 0.3143 | 0.6364 |
| Yadier   | Molina      |   31 |   44 | 140 | 0.3143 | 0.7045 |
| Scott    | Hairston    |   16 |   38 | 121 | 0.3140 | 0.4211 |
| Jason    | Michaels    |   15 |   32 | 102 | 0.3137 | 0.4688 |
| Jose     | Lopez       |   29 |   57 | 182 | 0.3132 | 0.5088 |
| Ramon    | Hernandez   |   34 |   50 | 160 | 0.3125 | 0.6800 |
| Melvin   | Mora        |   23 |   39 | 125 | 0.3120 | 0.5897 |
| Corey    | Hart        |   39 |   73 | 234 | 0.3120 | 0.5342 |
| Jason    | Bay         |   45 |   92 | 295 | 0.3119 | 0.4891 |
| Geovany  | Soto        |   31 |   80 | 258 | 0.3101 | 0.3875 |
| Joe      | Crede       |   28 |   40 | 129 | 0.3101 | 0.7000 |
| Casey    | Blake       |   43 |   81 | 262 | 0.3092 | 0.5309 |
| Elijah   | Dukes       |   17 |   42 | 136 | 0.3088 | 0.4048 |
| Ryan     | Zimmerman   |   23 |   46 | 150 | 0.3067 | 0.5000 |
| Ryan     | Ludwick     |   26 |   59 | 193 | 0.3057 | 0.4407 |
| Jason    | Kendall     |   33 |   40 | 132 | 0.3030 | 0.8250 |
| Derrek   | Lee         |   34 |   78 | 259 | 0.3012 | 0.4359 |
| Troy     | Tulowitzki  |   33 |   43 | 144 | 0.2986 | 0.7674 |
| Cody     | Ross        |   39 |   61 | 205 | 0.2976 | 0.6393 |
| Mark     | Reynolds    |   38 |   82 | 276 | 0.2971 | 0.4634 |
| Edgar    | Gonzalez    |   18 |   35 | 118 | 0.2966 | 0.5143 |
| Jhonny   | Peralta     |   43 |   69 | 234 | 0.2949 | 0.6232 |
| Chris    | Young       |   42 |   99 | 338 | 0.2929 | 0.4242 |
| Jayson   | Werth       |   25 |   41 | 140 | 0.2929 | 0.6098 |
| Justin   | Upton       |   27 |   48 | 165 | 0.2909 | 0.5625 |
| Dustin   | Pedroia     |   46 |   55 | 190 | 0.2895 | 0.8364 |
| Jamey    | Carroll     |   17 |   29 | 102 | 0.2843 | 0.5862 |
| Hanley   | Ramirez     |   43 |   78 | 276 | 0.2826 | 0.5513 |
| Mark     | DeRosa      |   21 |   53 | 188 | 0.2819 | 0.3962 |
| Brendan  | Harris      |   20 |   39 | 140 | 0.2786 | 0.5128 |
| Bobby    | Crosby      |   20 |   50 | 180 | 0.2778 | 0.4000 |
| Chris    | Snyder      |   23 |   49 | 177 | 0.2768 | 0.4694 |
| Jermaine | Dye         |   38 |   72 | 261 | 0.2759 | 0.5278 |
| Alex     | Rios        |   38 |   77 | 280 | 0.2750 | 0.4935 |
| Aramis   | Ramirez     |   33 |   69 | 257 | 0.2685 | 0.4783 |
| Rich     | Aurilia     |   12 |   27 | 101 | 0.2673 | 0.4444 |
| Mike     | Napoli      |   13 |   27 | 103 | 0.2621 | 0.4815 |
| Emil     | Brown       |   11 |   33 | 126 | 0.2619 | 0.3333 |
| Ryan     | Garko       |   28 |   51 | 196 | 0.2602 | 0.5490 |
| Evan     | Longoria    |   29 |   47 | 182 | 0.2582 | 0.6170 |
| Mike     | Cameron     |   20 |   50 | 194 | 0.2577 | 0.4000 |
| Derek    | Jeter       |   19 |   35 | 137 | 0.2555 | 0.5429 |
| Gary     | Sheffield   |   26 |   45 | 177 | 0.2542 | 0.5778 |
| Yunel    | Escobar     |   19 |   46 | 185 | 0.2486 | 0.4130 |
| Russell  | Martin      |   30 |   63 | 261 | 0.2414 | 0.4762 |
| Garrett  | Atkins      |   29 |   49 | 208 | 0.2356 | 0.5918 |
| Ryan     | Theriot     |   32 |   41 | 176 | 0.2330 | 0.7805 |
| Pat      | Burrell     |   24 |   51 | 219 | 0.2329 | 0.4706 |
| Kurt     | Suzuki      |   18 |   34 | 150 | 0.2267 | 0.5294 |
| Dan      | Uggla       |   33 |   79 | 352 | 0.2244 | 0.4177 |
| Magglio  | Ordonez     |   23 |   33 | 149 | 0.2215 | 0.6970 |
| Troy     | Glaus       |   26 |   50 | 226 | 0.2212 | 0.5200 |
| Julio    | Lugo        |   10 |   23 | 105 | 0.2190 | 0.4348 |
| Austin   | Kearns      |   12 |   22 | 102 | 0.2157 | 0.5455 |
| Ian      | Kinsler     |   35 |   51 | 237 | 0.2152 | 0.6863 |
| Orlando  | Cabrera     |   18 |   34 | 161 | 0.2112 | 0.5294 |
| Jose     | Bautista    |   25 |   41 | 196 | 0.2092 | 0.6098 |
| Kevin    | Millar      |   22 |   38 | 182 | 0.2088 | 0.5789 |
| Manny    | Ramirez     |   26 |   48 | 235 | 0.2043 | 0.5417 |
| Albert   | Pujols      |   28 |   39 | 198 | 0.1970 | 0.7179 |
| Michael  | Young       |   12 |   28 | 160 | 0.1750 | 0.4286 |
| Carlos   | Ruiz        |    9 |   21 | 122 | 0.1721 | 0.4286 |
| B.J.     | Upton       |   19 |   27 | 173 | 0.1561 | 0.7037 |
| Marco    | Scutaro     |   14 |   17 | 164 | 0.1037 | 0.8235 |
+----------+-------------+------+------+-----+--------+--------+

[SouthSideRyan]

Hey you can copy and paste numbers. I am impressed.

 

The basis of this topic was that Soriano is genetically engineered to fail in the playoffs because of his striking out on low and away sliders. People have implied that's all it takes like it's a piece of cake. Beyond the fact that any slider low and away isn't going to get him, I've yet to see any reason as to why this should happen any more in the playoffs then it would in the regular season.

[Mephistopheles]

its not that hard to think about....

 

better teams make the playoffs

better pitchers make teams better

better sliders make pitchers better