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Thursday, October 08, 2009

Pitcher hitting

Posted by Jeremy Greenhouse
Just a reminder, it's important. A significant amount of a pitcher's value is tied to his ability to hit, which we have a pretty good idea how to measure. Yet for some reason we leave hitting production out of our pitcher valuations. So I'll add StatCorner's pitching runs above average, hitting runs above average using a wOBA around .180 as average, and I might as well include the +/- fielding runs above average to come up with one total value. Dan Haren, Josh Johnson, and Carlos Zambrano can hit. Tommy Hanson has two hits in 46 plate appearances. Here are the notable names I came up with.

Name pRAA hRAA fRAA Total
Zack Greinke 68 0 1 69
Tim Lincecum 53 1 -3 51
Justin Verlander 46 -1 3 49
Felix Hernandez 43 0 2 44
Dan Haren 36 7 1 44
Roy Halladay 44 0 -2 42
Chris Carpenter 39 3 -1 40
Jon Lester 36 -1 2 37
Javier Vazquez 34 2 2 37
Adam Wainwright 31 4 -1 34
Ubaldo Jimenez 32 5 -5 32
CC Sabathia 29 0 3 32
Joel Pineiro 29 0 1 30
Josh Johnson 25 7 -2 30
Brett Anderson 27 0 1 28
Scott Baker 28 -1 0 27
Wandy Rodriguez 27 -2 1 26
Carlos Zambrano 17 7 1 25
Mark Buehrle 8 1 11 20
Tommy Hanson 12 -4 1 9
Brian Moehler -2 -5 0 -7
Ross Ohlendorf -1 -5 -1 -7
Jon Garland -9 -5 4 -9
Micah Owings -18 8 0 -10




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Elk said...

Mark Buehrle’s 11 fRAA really stands out on that chart.  Is that accurate?

Posted 10/09  at  08:36 AM
Jeremy Greenhouse said...

Yes, that’s accurate, and it’s why I included him. He’s been worth five runs in the field over any other pitcher.

Posted 10/09  at  09:23 AM
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