As you'll remember, the record for strikeouts in a major-league season is 223, set by Mark Reynolds in that ne'er-to-be-forgotten year of 2009. But all three of our starting outfielders are in the seasonal top ten—and the over-under for their total number of K's is 600.
Can they break the record??? Here's where they stand:
Gallo: 4
Judge: 3
As you can easily extrapolate, that works out to a projected total of 648 whiffs, or well over 600.
Moreover, at the current rate, while Aaron Judge will finish with a mere 162 K's, Joey, Joey King of the Streets Child of Clay will threaten the record, with 216.
And Giancarlo...will smash it, with 270.
Some excitement in store! Stay tuned!!
Finally, a season record within the grasp of these yanks.
ReplyDeleteI have just been reading about the MILB teams at MILB.com, Pinstriped Prospects and PinstripesPlus. (membership req.ed) and Fansgraphs. That is actually more fun!!
Like; Who will take Judge's place next year?
or Can we find a 23 year old CF to move Hicks out?
Will Waldichuck(SP?) make next year's rotation when Tallion leaves?
Archie,
ReplyDeleteWaldichuck is REALLY good. Insanely high K/9.
He's the perfect pitcher for extra innings. The Manfred Man is irrelevant when you strike out all three guys.
Hoss or El Duque,
Can we follow this on the side bar somewhere?
I've been stewing about last night's loss, and this is what frosts me.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the Yanks lost because they couldn't hit with men on base. But that's not really it.
They lost because they couldn't hit. Period. It's not just with men on base. The lineup is filled with K masters and double play clowns. So, when we do get men on base, nothing changes. Most of these guys can't actually hit with any consistency. So when you go for these kinds of players (Gallo!), you're not just putting all your money on the home run. You're removing the chance that they can score in any other way.
This is where the old discredited batting average comes into play. Put five guys hitting .300 or better in the lineup, and your chances of both putting men on base AND bringing them around to score radically go up.
.200 hitters, guys who whiff at record rates, guys who are stymied by the shift--all of them combined mean we have a bat's chance in hell of getting runners around to score. When it does happen, it's pretty much a fluke.
And this is precisely where stat mavens fall down. Our lineup is, for run-scoring purposes, just plain stupid. If a couple sluggers get hot, fine. If they whiff--much higher odds of that happening--we get bupkus.
Oh, no, JM, that's not true! According to all the bright boys on the ESPN crew last night, the whole trouble was that they didn't elevate their launch angles sufficiently!
ReplyDeleteThese people sound like NASA engineers.
Yes, it's not that they can't hit with men on base, it's THAT THEY CANNOT HIT AT ALL THE MISERABLE FUCKERS!!!!??
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