Andruw Jones’ batted balls

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:

Jones, Andruw
		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.