Fun with Early Season Stats

[kfizz]

Domingo Santana is 2nd on the team in plate appearances but tied for 13th in extra base hits with Jorge Lopez, Dan Jennings and Ji-Man Choi. Santana also has eight times as many strikeouts as RBI.

 

Eric Thames has more of both walks and homers than singles, doubles and triples combined.

 

5 of the active bullpen guys have ERAs under 2. And only Drake is above 4. Without the disaster inning, he’d be under 2 as well.

 

The bullpen has over half of the team’s wins and only 1/3 of its losses.

 

Of the full season starters, only Chase Anderson has a lower ERA than two members of the bullpen.

 

Only Josh Hader has converted more than half his save opportunities.

 

While Jonathan Villar has struggled in the field, his fielding percentage is still higher than that of Hernan Perez.

 

Even with the disaster inning, Oliver Drake has a lower WHIP than Jhoulys Chacin.

[dlk9s]

Josh Hader is 23rd in MLB in strikeouts (I believe he was 19th before yesterday) in just 11.2 innings. Everyone ahead of him has at least 4 starts and 10 more IP.

[Mr Southpaw]

Josh Hader is 23rd in MLB in strikeouts (I believe he was 19th before yesterday) in just 11.2 innings. Everyone ahead of him has at least 4 starts and 10 more IP.

 

And he is batting 1.000, along with 3 other players on MKE!

[Greenleaf1]

Eric Thames is sitting on a .194 BABIP (he had a .309 last year) while still managing a .245/.333/.679 line and 164 wRC+.

 

On the other hand, his HR/FB% is an unsustainable 38.9% (24.6% last year).

 

He has a soft contact % of only 10.5%, so he's been hitting the ball hard (as evidenced by the home runs) but his hard hit balls that stayed in the park haven't resulted in many hits.

 

So if his luck evened out, he probably would have a few less homers but would also probably have an OPS even higher than his already elite 1.012.

 

 

 

Aguilar has the better line with .414/.485/.552 (190 wRC+), but those video game numbers are propped up by an equally video gamey .480 BABIP (compared to .337 last year). His walk percentage (9.1%) is almost as high as his strikeout percentage (12.1%) which is pretty impressive, so he's putting a ton of balls in play and right now they're all dropping in for hits.

 

 

Brewers are tied with the Braves for most WAR at 1B so far this year (0.9).

[LouisEly]

For as maligned as the Brewers offense has been around here, they are 8th in the NL in OPS.

 

For as maligned as the Brewers pitching has been around here, they are 8th in the NL in OPS-A.

 

The Brewers lead the NL in Save Opportunities... and Blown Saves. Four teams have worse Save % though, including the Dodgers.

 

The Brewers pitching is 2nd in the NL in innings, one behind San Diego but 7.2 ahead of 3rd place Colorado.

[Eye Black]

The Brewers are 7-2 in games Christian Yelich has started. In those games they have scored 7 or more runs four times. Among the 12 games Yelich did not play in the Brewers never scored more than 5 runs.

[Greenleaf1]

The Brewers are 7-2 in games Christian Yelich has started. In those games they have scored 7 or more runs four times. Among the 12 games Yelich did not play in the Brewers never scored more than 5 runs.

 

It's still early going but I don't think this stat is a coincidence.

[trwi7]

8-1 against terrible teams. 5-8 against teams with actual talent.

[LouisEly]

8-1 against terrible teams. 5-8 against teams with actual talent.

Cardinals 6-0 versus Reds. 6-8 versus everyone else.

 

Cubs 2-3 versus Reds and Marlins.

[Greenleaf1]

If there's one thing I remember about the 2011 season, it was that the Brewers beat the teams they were supposed to beat, and that carried them throughout the season.

 

You just have to get to the playoffs, then hope you get hot at the right time. Baseball is just a game of poker, you have to give yourself the best odds to win and then hope you get lucky. Unless you're the Astros or the Red Sox this year, I don't think any team is going to have a sparkling record against tough opponents.

 

Beating up on lesser teams is a legitimate way to playoff contention.

[Eye Black]

The Brewers are 7-2 in games Christian Yelich has started. In those games they have scored 7 or more runs four times. Among the 12 games Yelich did not play in the Brewers never scored more than 5 runs.

 

It's still early going but I don't think this stat is a coincidence.

Well 9-2 with Yelich in the starting lineup now, and 6-1 in games started by all three of Cain, Yelich, and Braun.

 

Yes, I know many of these games have been against bad teams, but it's still nice to see the early success when the core players are healthy and in the lineup.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Brewers are now 9th in team ERA and 13th in team OPS - not the only pitching and offensive indicators, but other counting stats are tricky to compare across MLB with the variation in games played to date. That's solid balance, albeit a good portion of which was improved on the backs of some inferior competition.

 

On the flip side, dead last in errors and FLD % across MLB - which I was expecting to see given the putrid team defense pretty much all season long. Would be great to get that aspect of the game out of the gutter...

[tmwiese55]

8-1 against terrible teams. 5-8 against teams with actual talent.

 

While accurate and likely somewhat telling of them as a good but not great team. That really is the key to winning though and making the playoffs. If I remember correctly our 2011 record was massively inflated by assaulting the crap teams in our division of Pit, Cubs, and Houston. Still, that's exactly what you have to do. Win a huge percent vs those you should, stay as close as you can to .500 or hopefully a bit better vs the good teams.

[FVBrewerFan]

Shaw, Thames, and Bandy have yet to hit into a DP.

[stalton]

Who knew that both Aguilar and Thames would be sporting an OPS over 1000 at this point in the season.

[Baldkin]

Who knew that both Aguilar and Thames would be sporting an OPS over 1000 at this point in the season.

 

Who, the first baseman?