June 17, 201015 yr He's batting .300 with a 1.013 OPS with runners in scoring position. He has sucked, but also, he has kind of not sucked. Edited June 17, 201015 yr by Vance Law
June 17, 201015 yr It matters a lot. His OBP is only flirting with .300 when we were counting on it being a lot closer to .400
June 17, 201015 yr QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jun 16, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) He's batting .286 with a .995 OPS with runners in scoring position. And he improved that tonight. He has sucked, but also, he has kind of not sucked. I am sure someone smarter than me will explain that he is changing his approach with ducks on the pond. I also will venture to speculate that he might inch closer to the plate with runners in scoring positon because he figures there will be less of a chance of getting plunked. But if you figure in his defensive play none of this matters because his ass should already be on the DL or a two seater bound for Charlotte. Edited June 17, 201015 yr by GREEDY
June 17, 201015 yr Just when you think he and/or Beckham are going to break loose they go back to s*** like Gordon did tonight. Weird.
June 17, 201015 yr Quentin just double off the big wall in Pittsburgh in RF, but I noticed something about his swing. Now I am no hitting expert, but I do pride myself in understanding mechanics and fundamentals. Quentin swings looks excessively long. The reason being when he swings he doesnt seem to throw his hands at the ball, something that produces short quick movement to get the head of the bat on the ball. Instead Quentin seems to dip his hands down, like a hitch, the head of the bat drops down, and then he sort of wraps the bat out and around his body. This makes a much longer, slower swing. Thats my evaluation of Quentin's hitting suck-age to this point.
June 18, 201015 yr Speaking of RISP splits . . . Alex Rios had really been struggling with runners in scoring position this season but has turned it on of late (these things tend to even out) and when I checked his numbers today I was surprised to see just how affective he's been given his early struggles: RISP: .302/.397/.491/.887 63 PA 2 out, RISP: .400/.464/.680/1.144 28 PA Men on: .294/.384/.553/.937 99 PA Close&Late: .333/.405/.606/1.011 37 PA
June 18, 201015 yr Maybe he should have taken the "early money" like Floyd instead of hopes of having a big payday.
June 18, 201015 yr He's not a very good fielder (unless there are defensive metrics that prove me wrong) and has an OPS barely above .700 and an OBP barely above .300. So yes, it does matter he sucks.
June 18, 201015 yr QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 18, 2010 -> 01:14 PM) He's not a very good fielder (unless there are defensive metrics that prove me wrong) and has an OPS barely above .700 and an OBP barely above .300. So yes, it does matter he sucks. Try the polar opposite.
June 18, 201015 yr QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 17, 2010 -> 07:17 PM) Carlos Quentin is one of the most interesting players in baseball... I hear that Dos Equis guy is his uncle...
June 18, 201015 yr It matters that he sucks. There was some discussion a while back about the fact that Quentin was on pace for 93 RBIs while batting barely .200. That is a hard .200, and he's making it count. But imagine if he was batting .260 and had another 5 or 6 HRs and another 8-10 RBIs. I see the point though regarding his good hitting with RISP. But overall, yeah, he's not doing well.
June 18, 201015 yr QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 16, 2010 -> 11:44 PM) Just when you think he and/or Beckham are going to break loose they go back to s*** like Gordon did tonight. Weird. Becks ripped one last night. Why you sippin' on haterade?
June 18, 201015 yr Thats like me asking myself "Does it matter that I lost my job this year?".....I have made a good percentage of profit on my lemonade stand.
June 18, 201015 yr QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jun 18, 2010 -> 01:29 PM) Thats like me asking myself "Does it matter that I lost my job this year?".....I have made a good percentage of profit on my lemonade stand. Did you really lose your job?
June 19, 201015 yr Author I didn't start the thread with the intent of making the point that everything is fine with Quentin even though he has a .700 OPS while MLB average for a RF is like .800. Overall he has sucked. But point being there are varying levels and degrees of sucking. And if you're only getting x number of hits, managing to get them in situations that count definitely tempers the magnitude of his sucking. If a guy bats .200 for the whole year but bats .500 with RISP and drives in 120 runs, that's extremely productive and it kinda doesn't matter that he hit .200. Obviously that extreme example is never going to happen. Mainly, I just found it interesting how markedly better his splits have been with runners on, and even more so with runners in scoring position. Either way, the jackass should start hitting all the time.
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