Four Angels For A.J. To Be Careful With…
Posted by Steve L. on October 21st, 2009 · Comments (6)
How some Angels batters have done against A.J. Burnett, in their career, to date:
PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG +-----------------+-------+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+ Bobby Abreu 77 64 20 6 0 1 11 12 18 .313 .416 .453 Vladimir Guerrero 46 42 9 4 0 2 3 4 11 .214 .283 .452 Torii Hunter 24 23 2 0 0 2 2 1 7 .087 .125 .348 Maicer Izturis 18 16 4 1 0 0 3 2 4 .250 .333 .313 Gary Matthews 15 13 2 2 0 0 2 2 2 .154 .267 .308 Chone Figgins 13 12 5 1 1 0 1 0 2 .417 .417 .667 Howie Kendrick 12 11 4 1 0 0 3 1 5 .364 .417 .455 Mike Napoli 12 11 4 0 0 2 2 1 3 .364 .417 .909 Juan Rivera 10 8 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 .250 .400 .250 Erick Aybar 6 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 .200 .167 .400 Jeff Mathis 6 5 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 .400 .500 .400 Kendry Morales 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 .167 .167 .167 Reggie Willits 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 +-----------------+-------+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+ Total 246 217 56 16 1 7 29 25 62 .258 .335 .438
Hey, A.J., beware Abreu, Figgins, Kendrick and Napoli tomorrow night…and, if you can get by them, you’ll probably get to have some champagne with your cream pies after the game.
…and for the sake of perversity, it’ll be Hunter that gets the big hit off him, if there is one.
Well, it can be said, that in baseball, nothing happens on average…
Steve,
Can you flip this and show the same for us vs. Slackey?
Kendrick’s swinging a hot bat right now so I’d agree that they should pitch carefully to him. The same goes for Abreu, who has enough of a sample against Burnett to be taken seriously.
I’d also echo Evan’s sentiments and be careful with Hunter, since he lives to annoy the shit out of the Yankees. And Vlad, as we know, is capable of taking one deep…
@ #15: See:
http://tinyurl.com/yhg88kz
A.J., beware of your own head. Don’t let it get scrambled because you are pitching the biggest game of your career so far.