Team BABIP vs UZR

by FreeZorilla on Jun 5, 2009 6:38 PM EDT

I tracked all AL team pitching BABIP vs team UZR from 2004-2008. The mean BABIP was .304. Std Dev was .0099.

The outliers are the:

2004 Yanks with a UZR of -76.3 and a BABIP of .309

2005 Yanks with a UZR of -137 and a BABIP of .304

2006 Yanks with a UZR of -73.9 and a BABIP of .298

2006 Royals with a UZR of 58.3 and a BABIP of .315

2007 Royals with a UZR of 74.1 and a BABIP of .311

So this begs the question what was unique for the Royals and Yanks? Stadiums?

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Seems it came down to pitching

Going to go back and look at all LD% Royals=really high LD%, yanks=low

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by FreeZorilla on Jun 5, 2009 11:17 PM EDT reply actions

Wow

thats surprising to say the least. I suppose it could be the batted ball rates, but are there any pitchers on the Royals in that time frame that had good batted ball rates who still had bad BABIPs.

I’m sure this has been done, but is there any correlation between the number of each type of batted ball hit and UZR. Maybe the number of line drives given up by Royals pitchers inflated the UZR total, similarly the lack of line drives deflated the Yankees. This could mean the difference is less than you would think. It doesn’t make logical sense as line drives seems logically more difficult to catch, but I dunno. Maybe it has something to do with the number of opportunities if the defenders were getting more line drives hit at them.

by Navi's_Navy on Jun 5, 2009 11:39 PM EDT reply actions

Cool stuff. How about FanShotting this over at BtB?

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Jun 5, 2009 11:53 PM EDT reply actions

Yanks

basically, these names should sum it up.

Derek Jeter
Bernie Williams
Gary Sheffield
Hideki Matsui
Jason Giambi
Bobby Abreu

The Yankee OF have been an attrocious bunch during this span, espically the 05 OF was amazingly bad. featureing the corpse of Bernie William and the statue of Gary Sheffield out there. you know it’s bad when Matsui was by far and away the best defender of the bunch.

The Yanks replaced Sheffield with Abreu, which was an upgrade…. sort of… kinda like replacing Nick Punto with Nick Green is a significant offensive upgrade.

And then there’s Jeter and Giambi… Jeter’s worse defensive span was probably during this stretch too . (interesting that it has gotten better lately though)

by RollingWave on Jun 7, 2009 2:54 AM EDT reply actions