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Baseball Musings
June 03, 2007
Nomar's Numbers

The Dodgers came back for a win today, 5-4,, tagging Salomon Torres for the loss and his fifth blown save of the season. Nomar Garciaparra went one for five today and continues to bat third, despite a low OBA and a low slugging percentage. His current OPS of .685 is well below his career mark of .899. He's over 200 at bats into the season. I appreciate Grady Little sticking with Garciaparra high in the lineup, but at some point he might want to move him down until he shows he's back to normal. Looking at the order used today, Grady has his best OBA and slugging players separated by poorer ones. He might get more bang for the buck by bunching these batters and moving Nomar down.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:46 PM | Players | TrackBack (0)
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The one stat they always bring up with Nomar is that his batting average with runners in scoring position is like 2nd in the league, somewhere in the .430 range or thereabouts. But from the rest of his stats it seems like practically the only time he gets a hit is when there's men in scoring position. This gets back into the question of whether or not clutch hitters exist, and whether or not things like average with runners in scoring position is a meaningful statistic. I don't know if it is. But apparently it's the one thing (besides fielding his position) that Nomar's been really good at this year. It's like he can't start a rally, only continue one.

Posted by: Adam Villani at June 4, 2007 03:39 AM
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