hitting analysis

Is John Bowker Unlucky?

Published by on June 9, 2008 | 4 Responses

After watching the Nationals game on Sunday and watching Bowker hit the ball hard into some outs, I wondered, is John Bowker unlucky? To figure this out I checked John Bowker’s FanGraphs stats page and noticed something, he’s hitting a bunch of line drives. In 154 PA’s this year, Bowker’s LD% is at 26.4% which is very solid. Check out… Read more →

Looking at John Bowker's Early Success

Looking at John Bowker’s Early Success

Published by on April 22, 2008 | 2 Responses

The Giants’ offense was supposed to be punch-less this year and for the most part is has been. Let’s take a quick look at how the offense has performed so far, courtesy of The Hardball Times team statistics page. R/G OPS GB% LD% BABIP SF 3.15 .655 47% 20% .286 League 4.53 .739 45% 19% .289 The average team in… Read more →