Da Ortiz Code?
Posted by Steve L. on June 9th, 2006 · Comments (7)
Has anyone else noticed that, in his last 7 games against the Yankees, David Ortiz has posted the following batting average/on-base average/slugging percentage split:
.167/.219/.300
And, in those 7 games, Big Papi has been the Big Whiff in 10 of this 30 At Bats.
That’s not really clutch, is it?
I know it’s a small sample size, but, it does offer some hope that the Yankees have figured out a way to, finally, pitch this guy.
Is he in an overall slump or just against the Yanks?
Now they just have to figure out Manny.
I’m pretty sure there’d be a Nobel Prize in Psychology waiting for you if you could figure out Manny.
Nah, we didn’t “figure him out.” He’s in a slump that could be presaging a true decline. Someone referenced “Frank Thomas Disease.” We’ll have to wait and see but it wouldn’t surprise me if he went south in a hurry.
What’s really sad, is that despite that line in his last 7 games against the Yankees, he is still batting something like .333 against the Yankees this season.
I know that during one of their games back in April, they said that the hitting coach had been working with him to change his head position during his swing so that he could better keep both eyes on the ball. I thought it was kind of weird that they were messing with what was obviously not broken–maybe that has something to do with it?
Ortiz isn’t quite in Thomas’ class. And decline and all, Thomas has yet to post a below average season.
He’s in a slump that could be presaging a true decline.-johnnyc
“Ortiz, now 30, ranked fourth in the American League in home runs (18) and first in RBIs (56) at week’s end, a pace that would leave him with 48 homers and 149 RBIs for the season” -SI
Don’t you hate when stats rear their ugly head to shine light on false statements?
Ortiz isn’t quite in Thomas’ class.-hopbitters
“and a three-year run in which he had no fewer than 41 homers and 139 RBIs. Only two players in history maintained such high production for three consecutive seasons: Ken Griffey Jr. (1996 through ’98) and Ruth, who did so for six straight years (1926 through ’31).”=SI
Hmm, maybe a class above?