Andruw Jones’ batted balls
by Dave StudemanSeptember 10, 2007
John Beamer has posted a nice article about Andruw Jones today, including some insightful monthly trends. It will be interesting to see if Andruw does command a big contract this offseason.
As a follow up, perhaps some of you would like to take a look at Jones' batted ball profile. I described the batted ball profile format a couple of weeks ago, but space allowed me to only run it for a few players. Well, here's Andruw's profile:
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| Net Runs per Ball | % of Batted Balls | %/OF | %/PA | Total Net Runs | |||||||||||||
| BFP | OF | LD | GB | OF% | LD% | GB% | HR | K | BB | OF | LD | GB | IF | NIP | Tot | R/G | |
| 2004 | 646 | 0.35 | 0.46 | 0.03 | 31% | 16% | 48% | 20% | 23% | 11% | 46.2 | 31.5 | 6.3 | -2.3 | 8.9 | 90.7 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 672 | 0.37 | 0.44 | 0.01 | 37% | 16% | 42% | 28% | 17% | 12% | 65.9 | 34.1 | 1.3 | -2.5 | 14.7 | 113.6 | 6.4 |
| 2006 | 669 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.02 | 35% | 19% | 39% | 26% | 19% | 14% | 56.1 | 31.1 | 4.4 | -2.3 | 18.5 | 107.9 | 6.1 |
| 2007 | 529 | 0.25 | 0.33 | -0.01 | 40% | 17% | 37% | 15% | 22% | 12% | 35.9 | 19.4 | -1.2 | -1.9 | 9.6 | 61.7 | 4.4 |
| Avg. | 623 | 0.33 | 0.38 | 0.01 | 37% | 17% | 40% | 24% | 19% | 13% | 52.7 | 28.2 | 1.4 | -2.2 | 14.5 | 94.5 | 5.8 |
| vs. MLB | 0.14 | -0.01 | -0.04 | 6% | -3% | -4% | 13% | 2% | 3% | 26.0 | -8.1 | -7.3 | -0.6 | 6.1 | |||
As expected, Andruw has lost a lot of oomph on his outfield flies (despite hitting more of them), but his line drive production has also declined; in fact, it's declined each of the past four years. Add in lower production on his groundballs and more strikeouts, and you pretty much have a quadruple whammy.
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