Big Papi’s woes

April 15th, 2008 by Evan Brunell

Last night, despite Ortiz’s 2-4 night, I was frustrated at the way he handled the at-bat against Rafael Betancourt, especially the second pitch. Take a look:
Today I read an article by Pizza Cutter about if foul balls can tell us anything about a hitter. Essentially, he found:

Foul balls early in the count speak of a player who doesn

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4 Comments to “Big Papi’s woes”

  • Ian says:
    April 15, 2008 at 12:38 AM

    BABIP is generally within control of the hitter …
    Is there a missing “not” there? I know some players have BABIP that consistently is lower or higher than average, but the differences are generally much smaller than this .114 .310 difference.

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  • hynes says:
    April 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM

    Ortiz went 2-5 last night. You can see the box score here.
    Otherwise, great reminder Evan about the needed patience we need to have. Hell, we’re only two weeks into the system. Does anyone remember Jeter’s slump back in 2004? Ortiz is going to be fine. Here’s a clip from Wikipedia on Jeter’s ‘04 season:

    The beginning of the 2004 season saw Jeter mired in a slump; on May 25, he was hitting only .189. This included a personal career record 0-for-32 skid in April. In June, however, Jeter broke out of his slump. He hit nearly .400 for the month and set a personal best with 9 home runs. He finished the season with a .292 average and 23 home runs, the 2nd most of his career, as well as 44 doubles, which set a single-season record by a Yankee shortstop, besting Tony Kubek’s 38 in 1961.

    Ortiz will be fine.

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  • Gerry says:
    April 16, 2008 at 1:53 AM

    Ortiz will be fine. Amen to that. In the meantime, Manny, Youk, Drew, Dustin, Coco, Jacoby, the Mayor & the Captain are all doing fine . . . so the Sox will be fine.

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  • wicked clevah · In Case You Haven’t Been Keeping Up With Current Events says:
    April 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM

    [...] to convince me Papi’s back. But I have to say that the comment that Evan over at Fire Brand collected from Pizza Cutter was enlightening: In general, Ortiz hits a lot of foul balls (including two [...]

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