Theriot after his first HR

[cubsfan5150]

Can anyone tell me what his BA has been since he hit his first HR this season? Curious if he's still getting on base as much.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Can anyone tell me what his BA has been since he hit his first HR this season? Curious if he's still getting on base as much.

 

It's as simple as the flipping of a page on the calendar..........

 

Theriot            AB    R    H   2b   3b   HR  RBI   BB   SO     BA    OBP    SLG    OPS  BABIP  P/PA   IsoD   RBI%
April              82   10   26    3    1    0    7    8   12  0.317  0.374  0.378  0.752  0.371  3.83  0.057  0.171
May                49   11   13    3    1    5   10    7   10  0.265  0.368  0.673  1.042  0.235  3.79  0.103  0.208

Season totals     131   21   39    6    2    5   17   15   22  0.298  0.372  0.489  0.860  0.327  3.81  0.074  0.185

[Guest]

Pre HR: .317 .374 .378 .752 (21 games)

Post HR: .298 .372 .489 .860 (14 games)

 

The entire jump in OPS is from SLG, which is a good thing. But, that doesn't tell the whole story.

 

Pre HR: 10 runs scored, 4 XBH's, 7 RBI

Post HR: 10 runs scored, 9 XBH's, 10 RBI

 

The production is up across the board in 1/3 less games played.

[CubColtPacer]

It's .267 since his first homer.

 

He's actually getting on base slightly better since the first home run (.377 OBP) than he was before the first home run (.368 OBP).

 

I'm putting the home run itself into the pre-home run camp, and then every at-bat after that into the post home run camp.

[Guest]

Looks like I screwed up the BA question, but BA is certainly not a very useful tool for evaluating production.

[CubbieBum]

He's essnetially doing exactly what you would expect. He's hitting for a lower average but getting more walks. Then due to the HR's his RBI rate is up as is his slugging and thus OPS.

[Guest]

He's essnetially doing exactly what you would expect. He's hitting for a lower average but getting more walks. Then due to the HR's his RBI rate is up as is his slugging and thus OPS.

check the difference in babip to see why the ba is different.

[CubbieBum]

He's essnetially doing exactly what you would expect. He's hitting for a lower average but getting more walks. Then due to the HR's his RBI rate is up as is his slugging and thus OPS.

check the difference in babip to see why the ba is different.

 

I see the difference but think that can still largely be explained by the new approach. When you are hitting more fly balls your average on balls in play will likely go down. When you are hitting line drives up the infield you will get a good average but won't get many XBH's. When you are hitting more fly balls (I'm assuming he is) you will get more XBH's but less hits overall.

[Careless]

but BA is certainly not a very useful tool for evaluating production.

Well, sure, but if he permanently changes his approach and winds up hitting for more power for an extended duration, it will be very interesting to see what happens with things like his average. Not so much to judge his performance as to see what happens when someone dramatically changes hitting styles in a short period of time without a dramatic physical change. (granted, looking at his average over the past two weeks isn't very useful)