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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

April ERV


The Sox wrapped up the month of April 17-7. They did so with nearly equal contributions from their pitching and hitting: the hitters were 20.66 runs better than average, while their pitchers were 17.47 runs better than average. As a team, that is +38.13, or about 1.6 ERV per game.

ERV Player of the Month goes to Jim Thome, who was +17.19 ERV on his own.

ERV Pitcher of the Month goes to Jose Contreras, who put up a +13.08 ERV.

Batting

Player Total April Home Road
Pods

-7.77

-7.77

-3.32

-4.46

Mackowiak

-3.81

-3.81

-2.25

-1.57

Iguchi

1.94

1.94

0.03

1.91

Thome

17.19

17.19

8.62

8.58

Cintron

-4.26

-4.26

-4.23

-0.03

Konerko

12.51

12.51

2.65

9.87

Dye

11.96

11.96

9.34

2.62

Gload

-0.31

-0.31

-0.10

-0.21

AJ

-3.77

-3.77

-2.21

-1.56

Crede

4.47

4.47

4.33

0.14

Uribe

-4.14

-4.14

2.58

-6.72

Anderson

-6.50

-6.50

-3.06

-3.43

Ozuna

3.87

3.87

2.67

1.19

Widger

-0.71

-0.71

-1.12

0.41

Team

20.66

20.66

13.93

6.74


Pitching

Player Total April Home Road
Buehrle

8.52

8.52

4.33

4.19

McCarthy

2.88

2.88

4.09

-1.21

Politte

-4.08

-4.08

-3.16

-0.92

Thornton

0.62

0.62

0.75

-0.13

Garcia

-2.49

-2.49

-2.80

0.31

Logan

0.15

0.15

0.29

-0.14

Cotts

0.54

0.54

-1.19

1.73

Jenks

2.31

2.31

3.69

-1.38

Contreras

13.08

13.08

6.85

6.23

Garland

-7.35

-7.35

2.30

-9.66

Vazquez

3.28

3.28

-0.13

3.41

Team

17.47

17.47

15.04

2.43


Fielding:

Player ERV
Crede -0.92
AJ -0.11
Thornton -0.29
Iguchi -1.46
Podsednik -0.23
Garland -0.61
Total -3.62



Player of the Game tracking:

Dye - 6
Konerko - 6
Thome - 4
Iguchi - 4
Crede - 2
Anderson 1
Uribe 1

Pitcher of the Game tracking:

Contreras - 5
Buehrle - 3
Vazquez - 3
Garland - 2
McCarthy - 2
Cotts - 2
Logan - 2
Garcia - 1
Thornton - 1


Comments-[ comments.]
Comments:
Surprised to see all the negatives with fielding. Is that because there isn't a positive way of accounting for fielding?
 
How has AJ been almost as bad as Uribe at the plate? That doesn't seem to make a ton of sense even if AJ isn't driving home runners.
 
(1) There is no objective way of accounting for fielding. We all know what a good play is, but it's hard to say, "the average player would / would not have made that play." The average MLB shortstop is pretty darn good. Then there is the question - would that have been a double? A triple? Would the runner have gone to third? It's all pretty subjective.

Nats Blog tried to give out fielding credit last year, and it was damned hard.

(2) AJ has made some bad outs with runners on base. I can think of one game where he K'ed with runners on 2 & 3 and 1 out. That's a major negative. I did address this point in an earlier post, Otter. The bottom line is that grounding into a double play with men on first and second and nobody out (-1.10 ERV) is a LOT worse than getting a two-out hit with no one on base (+0.12 ERV). In fact, if you went 3 for 4 with all three singles coming with nobody on / two out, and the out with bases loaded and 1 out, you'd be about 1 run in the hole for your team in the game.
 
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