NL MVP, by the numbers

I have a different philosophy about MVP Awards than I do for what I think of as more performance-oriented awards (Cy Young Award, Hank Aaron Award, Rookie of the Year, Golden Glove, etc), in that I think things like being on a winning team, having outstanding clutch ratings, and differences between a player's performance and that of his teammates, etc, can legitimately factor into one's votes. Nevertheless, basic performance has to be the baseline. And, unfortunately, most performance assessments that I've seen thus far focus strictly on offense.

So I thought it was worth getting total value (offense + fielding, approach initially justified here) estimates of player performance as a starting point. To hone down a list of players, I looked at posts by Andy at Baseball Reference's Stat 'o the Day blog, and by Pizza Cutter at StatSpeak. I also threw in a few folks that I thought were deserving of consideration who hadn't otherwise come up. Here they are:

Name	POS	VORP	+-THTFieldingRuns	TotalValue
David_Wright	3B	78.6	26.2	104.8
Albert_Pujols	1B	65.8	30.2	96.0
Chase_Utley	2B	67.8	21.5	89.3
Chipper_Jones	3B	73.9	13.3	87.2
Matt_Holliday	LF	70.4	9.1	79.5
Hanley_Ramirez	SS	86.7	-20.4	66.3
Todd_Helton	1B	48.1	16.6	64.7
Jose_Reyes	SS	46.6	16.8	63.4
Troy_Tulowitzki	SS	35.1	27.5	62.6
Carlos_Beltran	CF	48.9	13.4	62.3
Eric_Byrnes	LF	37.1	23.1	60.2
Miguel_Cabrera	3B	69.0	-9.4	59.6
Jimmy_Rollins	SS	60.5	-2.8	57.7
Prince_Fielder	1B	64.9	-7.6	57.3
Barry_Bonds	LF	56.2	-2.3	53.9
Brandon_Phillips	2B	37.9	15.5	53.4
Aaron_Rowand	CF	52.5	-0.1	52.4
Ryan_Howard	1B	47.0	-7.9	39.1
Adam_Dunn	LF	45.2	-17.3	27.9
Dan_Uggla	2B	31.1	-3.5	27.6
Ryan_Braun	3B	52.6	-27.2	25.4

Based on these data, I think it's probably safest to conclude that we should restrict ourselves to talking about a 5-man race between Wright, Pujols, Utley, Jones, and Holliday, as there's a 13-run dropoff between Holliday and the next closest player.

Pujols and Jones are on teams that are out of contention now, even though both teams were "in it" in early September. But since neither is clearly head and shoulders above the rest, this puts these two individuals at a slight disadvantage in my book.

So at this point, I'd put it as a battle between Wright, Holliday, and Utley. Holliday's fielding numbers are good, but Wright and Utley are the top defensive players at their respective positions according to THT's fielding data. Utley missed a substantial amount of playing time this season, and I think durability should be a factor with this award...though his numbers when present have been spectacular enough to rank him among these three despite the missed time. Wright leads all three in Win Probability Added, indicating that he's had a greater impact on ballgames this season than the other two (not that this is completely his doing). And, of course, Wright also led all of these players in my total player value estimate.

It's a tough call, but with a week left in the season, I'd probably give the award to David Wright.

Could Jared Burton be another Mariano Rivera? And other PITCHf/x stories...

John Walsh was incredibly gracious and this morning sent over PITCHf/x plots like those I profiled here on six additional Cincinnati Reds. I requested plots on guys that I felt are "key" members of next season's pitching staff, in that if they do well the Reds might be contenders, and if they don't ... well... we'll likely see yet another losing season. As the title of this post suggests, he found some interesting stuff on one Jared Burton, but I'll get to him further down the page.

Let's start with perhaps the most important unanswered question of next season:

Homer Bailey
To re-orient you to these plots, they are drawn from the perspective of the catcher and show the break of pitches relative to a theoretical ball with zero spin thrown in a vacuum. No information on pitch location can be gleaned from this plot. Units are in inches.
We see from this figure three basic pitches. First, in the upper left, is his fastball, which has excellent "rise" and is consistently in the "pink" 90-95 mph range (with a few blue 95+ mph pitches for good measure). We also see his change-up, which is typically coming in about 10 mph slower than the fastball and accounts for the red dots in that upper-left cluster. The change doesn't quite have the vertical "rise" than the fastball does, and might be something that Bailey could improve upon.

Lastly, we see his big curveball, which has excellent negative vertical break, more so than any other Cincinnati Red I've seen to date. It also comes in a good 15 mph slower than his fastball. It would seem to me that a hard rising fastball and a big breaking curve ball that differ this much in velocity would make for a pretty challenging combination. One thing to note, however, is that none of Bailey's pitches seem to break much in the horizontal plane.

If he can be a solid #3 or better, the Reds would seem to me to be contenders without only incremental improvements from some of the other young players. Last week's start in San Francisco was a step in that direction. But if Bailey can't harness his control, the Reds' rotation will likely be in a world of hurt.

David Weathers
Weathers was extremely solid through July, but has struggled since then. I've been predicting a decline from this guy for a long time, and it might be that his peripherals are finally catching up to him. Nevertheless, we might be able to see in this plot part of what has allowed him to be effective.
Weathers is reportedly a sinker/slider type of pitcher. Sinkers have typically been very difficult to pick up in these sorts of plots, but essentially they are fastballs that don't "rise" as much as a traditional 4-seam fastball. With Weathers, we see that his fastball (presumably all the dark green pitches) is extremely variable in how it breaks. Some have terrific vertical rise (nearly 15 inches), while others only rise five inches compared to a default pitch. It'd be neat to run a cluster analysis on his pitches to see if he's throwing distinctly different pitches in that blob 'o fastballs.

We also see his slider, depicted in the red blob. Like a lot of sliders, it actually follows a path fairly similar to what you'd expect from a spinless ball thrown in a vacuum, and comes in ~5 mph slower than his fastball. There might also be a fourth off-speed pitch in there--maybe a variation on a slider?--but it's a pitch he doesn't show very often.

Jared Burton
Ok, enough teasing--let's look at Jared Burton. Here's what John Walsh wrote when he sent over these figures:

Burton has a very unusual profile. Look how symmetric his plot is -- I can't even tell if he's lefty or righty. Ok, so he's righty -- that means that pink blob with horiz>0 seems to be a cutter -- compare to Rivera's plot in my article. Is he known to throw a cutter, as far as you know? It certainly seems to be the pitch he throws most often (from this plot).

Let's look at that plot, along side a plot of Mariano Rivera:
As Tom Tango pointed out in response to Walsh's article, Rivera's profile actually looks more like a lefthander than a righthanded pitcher, explaining at least in part why he defies the typical platoon split and is so tough on left-handed hitters (0.606 OPS vs. right, 0.526 OPS vs. left).

Interestingly, Burton's plot has a lot of similarities with Rivera's, especially in terms of the pink blob on the right side of the graph. Looking back on the original Cinci Post article on Burton's acquisition, the Reds' brass did cite his cutter as being a good pitch. He throws more fastballs (the pink blob on the left) than Rivera does, and for some reason has a bit more variation in velocity (hard to tell if a splitter and/or a slider might also be present), but sifting through Walsh's PDF's from the original article, there aren't a lot of other pitchers that are comparable to these guys. As always, I'd love to hear feedback from those of you who can actually evaluate pitches with your eyes...

Burton hasn't faced enough hitters to make evaluation of his left/right splits particularly meaningful, but currently he does show a rather small left/right split (0.527 vs. right, 0.544 vs. left), though it's not reversed like Rivera's. Burton is already 26, so it's hard to project a long bullpen career from the guy...but on the other hand, Rivera didn't break in with the Yankees until he was 25 years old either...

Let me be clear: the realistic chances of Burton turning into the second coming of Mariano Rivera are remote. But these data do indicate that Burton has a pitch that is at least similar in profile to Rivera's devastating cutter, which can't help but bode well for the young reliever...assuming he can control it. If Weathers falters next season, Burton is the obvious choice right now to step in and try to fill that role.

Bray, Coffey, and Majewski
I'll do the last three with one figure:
Bray and Coffey look pretty similar to one another (though Bray's profile is reversed because he is left-handed). Hard throwers with a fastball/slider combination. Bray has a bit more "rise" on his fastball, and has thrown far more breaking pitches than Coffey. There was talk that Coffey was to stop throwing his splitter, and that's supported by this figure: splitters usually show up as a slightly slower pitch directly "below" the fastball in these plots, and there's nothing fitting that description here.

Finally, Majewski was best known--at least when he was effective--for his ability to induce ground balls via his sinker. Majewski's fastball plot looks a lot like Weathers' and Arroyo's, so that's probably the sinker we're seeing there. He also seems to be mixing in a few variations on a slider, which shows up in the 70-80, 80-85, and 85-90 mph ranges. It's possible that the slowest pitch is a curve ball (it has negative vertical break), though I haven't heard that he throws one.

...
I continue to be really interested in what this new set of statistics can tell us. For the time being, this stuff is basically just descriptive. There's not much here that can really inform us about why a pitcher is effective and/or ineffective. But I think that with additional work, perhaps by comparing the same pitcher when they are effective and ineffective, these data can help us to quantitatively describe changes in the actual pitches thrown and connect those changes to differences in performance on the field. Exciting stuff.

Once again, a huge thank you to John Walsh for spending the time and energy to create the above figures!

Ok, now to get back to my profile on the Cleveland Indians.

Postseason Profile: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Below is the first of a set of profiles on the teams who will appear in the postseason. I tried doing something similar to this mid-season, but that graphical format proved to be too time consuming to repeat for a large number of teams. I'm hoping this approach--which is basically just a stat-dump + discussion--will work better.

Anaheim currently has a magic number of one, so I'm going to start with them. Stats are a few days old, which reflects time required to run the data and write this up. Keep in mind that while I'm trying to learn about these guys, I don't know many of the players on these teams very well and thus am basing my opinions largely on what I see in the stats. All data come from The Hardball Times unless noted otherwise.

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Brief
Overall Record: 91-62 (0.595, with 9 games to go)
PythagenPat Record: 87-66 (0.569, 4 games below actual record)
5-yr Park Factor: 0.97 (moderate pitchers' park)
PFadj Runs Scored: 821 (5.4 r/g, 3rd in AL)
PFadj Runs Allowed: 707 (4.6 r/g, 5th in AL)
Team OBP: 0.347 (3rd in AL)
Team SLG: 0.422 (8th in AL)
Team FIP: 4.20 (2nd in AL)
Team Fielding: 49 Plays Below Average (12th in AL)

The AL West Race
The AL West began the year as a dead heat, but in early May the Angels went on an absurd tear that never really let up until the end of June. At the time, they seemed to be running away with the division, but a (barely) sub-0.500 July allowed the Seattle Mariners to nearly catch up after their own hot streak. These two teams battled it out until the end of August, when the Mariners' implosion coincided with a modest hot streak by the Angels. As I write this, the Angels have a magic number of just one game with a week to go, despite dropping the last two games to the Mariners.

Position Players

Catchers
C Mike Napoli
C Jeff Mathis

Mike Napoli posted a nice offensive season for a catcher (0.249/0.347/0.444), showing good walk rates and impressive power. Defensively, however, he has left something to be desired, catching only 20% of would-be base stealers.

Jeff Mathis is the secondary catcher, and seems inferior to Napoli on both offense (0.222/0.279/0.370) and defense (18% CS rate). Jose Molina, a better defensive catcher than either of these two, was traded in July to the Yankees.

Infielders
1B Casey Kotchman
2B Howie Kendrick
3B Chone Figgins
SS Orlando Cabrera
IF: Macier Izturis, Erick Aybar

First base is manned by Casey Kotchman, who had a nice year while laying claim to the first base job in Anaheim, hitting 0.293/0.364/0.456 in his first full season. Perhaps even more impressively, he proved to be the best defensive starter on this Angels ballclub, saving nearly 15 runs above average at first base--tops in the AL. He's not a masher at first base, but altogether he brought the team nearly 40 runs above replacement level performance.

Second base has been most commonly played by rookie Howie Kendrick, who had a fine hitting line of 0.329/0.350/0.463. Unfortunately, that seems largely the result of luck. His BABIP was 0.389 this season, despite having just a 16% line drive percentage. PrOPS backs up that conclusion, as players with his batted ball profiles are predicted to have an OPS of just 0.653. At the least, he's a plus defender, saving roughly 5 runs above average in roughly half a season.

Third Baseman Chone Figgins, 29, had his best season, posting a fabulous 0.406 on-base percentage, which was helped substantially by an 0.408 BABIP. Surprisingly, I don't think that BABIP was just dumb luck -- Chone had an amazing 27% line drive percentage this season, which would predict a BABIP ~0.390. He also has great speed, stealing 40 bases and netting the team ~2 additional runs via the stolen base, plus, I'm sure, additional runs via distractions and extra bases. Figgins isn't a prototypical power-hitting third baseman--indeed, this is the first year that the former utility man has really had a position to call his own--but players who can hit and walk at high percentages, and then be distracting once they are one base, are quite valuable. Defensively, he's solidly league average at the hot corner.

Finally, Orlando Cabrera is the team's shortstop. Cabrera was extremely durable this season, playing in all but one of his team's games, and had his best offensive season in years, posting a 0.345 OBP and stealing 20 bases (~net 1.6 runs). Surprisingly, however, his defensive numbers were not very good, costing the Angels an estimated 8 runs compared to an average defender. Cabrera's past UZR scores have been positive more often than not, though last season they dropped to -7 runs, so this could very well be accurate. Perhaps the 32-year old has lost a step or two?

Other infielders getting substantial playing time included Macier Izturis, who was an excellent defensive third baseman, though was not as good at second base. As a hitter, he's all contact and little power, but he walks at a good clip and avoids the strikeout well. Erick Aybar also put in a fair amount of time at second base, but while defensively he was Anaheim's best defender at the keystone (4.7 runs saved), he was dreadful at the plate, hitting just 0.235/0.277/0.274. VORP estimates that Aybar performed 10 runs below replacement level. Even his excellent defense can't make up for that.

Outfielders
LF Garret Anderson
CF Gary Matthews Jr.
RF Vladimir Guerrero
OF Reggie Willits

Left field continues to be manned by Garret Anderson. Now 35, had his best offensive season--at least judging by his rate stats--since 2003, hitting 0.308/0.346/0.513 despite gradually diminished playing time. With Figgins and Kotchman, he provided the primary offense for team aside from Vladimir Guerrero (see below). While his defense is starting to fade (-10 runs vs. average) in left field, he played in the outfield more often than not.

The Angels' center fielder is $10 million/yr man Gary Matthews Jr. Matthews did not hit like he did last year, so most would consider his '07 hitting line (0.257/0.323/0.428) a tremendous disappointment. But frankly, the Angels shouldn't be that surprised. His '06 line (0.866), which was easily the best of his career featured an unusually high BABIP (0.354) which was at odds with his line drive rate (18.8%), indicating that he had been rather hit-lucky. PrOPS supported the notion that he had been fortunate, estimating his actual OPS should have been closer to 0.790. Factor in the fact that he was already 32 when he signed his 5-year deal, and that he was moving from the best hitting park in the American League (1.07 park factor) to a moderate pitchers' park (0.97 park factor), and his hitting line doesn't seem all that surprising. Furthermore, Matthews also seems to be declining as a defender. THT's data put him at -4 runs vs. average this season, which was consistent with UZR's rating of -2 runs vs. average at the All-Star break. Fortunately for Matthews, the Angels don't have anyone (except maybe Figgins) who can even be that good of a defender in center field.

This brings us to Anaheim's best position player, Vladimir Guerrero. I'm not sure what it is, but somehow I always seem to forget about this guy when I think about the best players in baseball. But my goodness... Guerrero, still just 31, has now posted ten consecutive seasons with an OPS over 0.900 despite being one of the most extreme free swingers in baseball. There isn't anyone quite like the guy in terms of approach, production, durability, and style. Defensively, the picture wasn't quite as rosy, with Guerrero's range costing his team an estimated 15 runs compared to average. Furthermore, his 5 outfield assists this season were the lowest total of his career, indicating that his arm isn't quite the canon that it used to be. Nevertheless, despite his defensive struggles, he is still the best position player on the team.

Update: In 23 Sept's Under the Knife, Will Carroll discussed Guerrero's back issues and how they are affecting his throwing arm. While it sounds like they're trying to keep him in the field, I'd be inclined to stick him at DH and play Willits or (if he's ready) Juan Rivera in right field instead. The Angels don't have a clear choice at DH (I sure as heck wouldn't put Hillenbrand on the postseason roster with his performance this season), so I don't see a reason not to do this.

Finally, roving about and picking up a lot of work as a fourth outfielder was 26-year old Reggie Willits. He demonstrated zero power, but achieved legitimate offensive value in his rookie season thanks to his excellent ability to get on base via both walks and hits (0.384 OBP). His 23% line drive indicates that his 0.358 BABIP was no accident. Surprisingly, given his speed (26 steals), he isn't a particularly remarkable defender. He is fine in the corners (+3 runs), but he really struggled in the 200 innings he played in center field this season, costing the team an estimated 10 runs below average.

Pitching

Starters
John Lackey
Kelvim Escobar
Jered Weaver
Joe Saunders
Bartolo Colon

Lackey has probably had the best season of his career, and is considered among the leading contenders for the AL Cy Young award. He might not win that award, but that does nothing to take away from what has been an excellent season. Lackey's strikeout rate is above average, his walk rate is below average, and his allowed home run rate is below average. Very solid.

What surprised me in looking at these numbers, however, was that Kelvim Escobar might have been even better. Their strikeout rates are virtually identical, and while Escobar has walked more than Lackey, Escobar's hr-allowed rate has been better. While that might be attributable to an usually low hr/f rate (6%), Escobar's nonetheless FIP comes in below Lackey's this season (3.37 vs. 3.61). Assuming his recent shoulder issues subside, Escobar looks like a very nice #2 starter.

Trailing just behind the first two is 24-year old Jered Weaver. If you start with John Lackey's peripherals, and then just shift each of them to be slightly worse, you'd end up with Weavers' 2007 stats. He's not racking up the strikeout totals than I somehow thought he was (all I ever hear about this kid is hype), but he's been very solid for the Angels this year as a legitimate #3.

The likely #4 starter is 26-year old Joe Saunders. The lone left-hander in the rotation, Saunders' peripherals look a lot like Weavers', except that Saunders doesn't strike out quite as many batters. Even so, he makes for a solid #4 guy in this rotation, which can probably match any other in baseball in its depth.

Bartolo Colon seems to be the odd man out. Colon isn't the pitcher that he once was, but I don't think his reconstructed arm is as bad as his ERA would indicate. He still has stuck out an above-average number of hitters. In fact, his strikeout rate this season is identical to that of his Cy Young 2005 campaign. What has hurt him has been his location, in that his walk rates and home run rates are much higher than they were in his best seasons. Nevertheless, I can still see him coming up big out of the bullpen if the Angels should need a long man.

Relievers
Francisco Rodriguez
Darren Oliver
Scot Shields
Justin Speier
Chris Bootcheck
Dustin Moseley

The Angels' top weapon in their bullpen continues to be the perennially outstanding--and still just 25 years old--Francisco Rodriguez. K-Rod walks his share of hitters, but when you strike out 12+ per nine innings and only allow a home run every 18, that doesn't matter much.

The remaining relievers look more or less equivalent in effectiveness, all posting an FIP between 3.83 (Oliver) and 4.15 (Moseley). They do it in different ways, however, with Shields and Speier posting high strikeout numbers, Moseley and Bootcheck keeping the ball in the park and avoiding the walk, and Oliver being generally solid all-around. This gives Scioscia the opportunity to try to vary the sort of pitcher the opposition is seeing before giving the ball to Rodriguez, and focus on matchups that exploit hitter weaknesses. The one real weakness in the 'pen is that Oliver is the only left-hander, which virtually guarantees that that he will have some big-time match-ups in the postseason.

Summary

Overall, this is clearly a really solid if unspectacular ballclub with a great mix of young and veteran talent. Their offense, with the exception of Guerrero, doesn't feature much power. But they have eight hitters with OBP's over 0.340 in more than 300 AB's, and that's excludes their 0.348 OBP catcher, Mike Napoli (245 PA's). So one can expect a consistent attack throughout the game with from these guys.

Their pitching is also solid and deep. Their rotation should match up well against just about anyone, Boston included. And their bullpen is deep, even if the only genuine stopper is closer Francisco Rodriguez.

Their Achilles Heel, if they have one, is their fielding. Some of their players seem to have lost some range (Cabrera, Matthews, Guerrero), and none of their starters except first baseman Kotchman have been substantially above average. The outfield would seem to be a particular problem, especially when Anderson is starting over Willits in left field (I'd use Anderson as a DH). The pitching staff, in general, is not one that will strike a ton of guys out, so the defense could hurt them. But let's not overstate matters--this is still a squad that has allowed the third fewest runs to be scored in the American League.

Tables

Hitting

Last	Pos	PA	%K	%BB	%LD	BABIP	AVG	OBP	SLG	ISO	OPS	PrOPS	RC	SBRns	VORP
Guerrero	RF	639	10%	11%	16%	0.328	0.326	0.402	0.549	0.224	0.951	0.874	123	-1.1	62.0
Cabrera	SS	675	9%	6%	18%	0.320	0.303	0.345	0.402	0.099	0.747	0.709	91	1.6	32.4
Figgins	3B	466	15%	10%	27%	0.408	0.346	0.406	0.453	0.107	0.858	0.762	86	1.9	41.7
Kotchman	1B	483	9%	10%	16%	0.305	0.293	0.364	0.456	0.163	0.821	0.770	69	-0.6	23.8
Anderson	LF	428	11%	6%	19%	0.315	0.308	0.346	0.513	0.205	0.858	0.813	66	0.2	27.0
Willits	LF	503	16%	14%	23%	0.358	0.292	0.384	0.345	0.053	0.728	0.733	66	0.8	14.8
Matthews	CF	563	18%	9%	13%	0.286	0.257	0.323	0.428	0.170	0.751	0.748	65	1.1	16.6
Izturis	3B	355	10%	9%	17%	0.300	0.279	0.341	0.389	0.110	0.730	0.727	58	0.6	8.5
Kendrick	2B	326	17%	3%	16%	0.389	0.329	0.350	0.463	0.134	0.813	0.653	39	-0.7	20.6
Napoli	C	245	23%	12%	19%	0.292	0.249	0.347	0.444	0.195	0.791	0.839	33	-0.1	12.7
Hillenbrand	DH	204	9%	2%	13%	0.266	0.254	0.275	0.325	0.071	0.599	0.659	16	-0.9	-9.5
Quinlan	1B	184	14%	8%	13%	0.270	0.244	0.304	0.345	0.101	0.650	0.688	15	-0.4	-4.0
Morales	1B	107	16%	5%	13%	0.354	0.314	0.346	0.500	0.186	0.846	0.694	14	-0.5	6.3
Aybar	2B	195	15%	5%	13%	0.278	0.235	0.277	0.274	0.039	0.551	0.594	14	-1.2	-10.4
Mathis	C	183	24%	7%	14%	0.274	0.222	0.279	0.370	0.148	0.649	0.662	13	-0.5	-1.3
Molina	C	131	23%	2%	18%	0.295	0.224	0.237	0.288	0.064	0.525	0.562	9	-0.1	-6.6
Haynes	RF	41	22%	5%	10%	0.333	0.256	0.293	0.308	0.051	0.600	0.524	5	-0.3	-1.4
Rivera	RF	24	13%	0%	14%	0.158	0.208	0.208	0.458	0.250	0.667	0.913	2	0.0	-0.8
Wood	3B	25	32%	0%	12%	0.188	0.160	0.160	0.320	0.160	0.480	0.622	2	0.0	-2.6
Evans	RF	10	10%	20%	0%	0.000	0.125	0.300	0.500	0.375	0.800	1.105	1	0.0	0.0
Murphy	RF	36	22%	0%	19%	0.259	0.200	0.222	0.229	0.029	0.451	0.578	1	0.0	-3.8
Brown	3B	7	14%	29%	0%	0.000	0.000	0.286	0.000	0.000	0.286	0.618	0	0.2	-0.7
Gorneault	LF	5	20%	20%	0%	0.000	0.000	0.200	0.000	0.000	0.200	0.539	0	0.0	-1.0
Budde	C	18	33%	0%	8%	0.250	0.167	0.167	0.222	0.056	0.389	0.435	0	0.0	-2.1

Fielding

Name	POS	Inn	+-PiZ	+-PooZ	+-Total	+-Runs
Kotchman	1B	991	9.2	9.3	18.5	14.7
Morales	1B	100	0.4	2.0	2.4	1.9
Hillenbrand	1B	47	0.3	-0.8	-0.5	-0.4
Quinlan	1B	219	-1.2	-1.8	-3.0	-2.4
Aybar	2B	315	-1.1	7.3	6.2	4.7
Kendrick	2B	690	-3.2	9.1	5.9	4.5
Figgins	2B	58	2.4	-0.7	1.7	1.3
Izturis	2B	294	2.5	-4.1	-1.6	-1.2
Izturis	3B	421	6.7	1.0	7.8	6.2
Figgins	3B	804	-1.2	2.9	1.7	1.3
Brown	3B	14	0.6	-0.8	-0.2	-0.2
Wood	3B	61	-2.1	1.6	-0.6	-0.5
Quinlan	3B	48	-0.8	-0.6	-1.4	-1.1
Aybar	3B	9	-1.4	-0.8	-2.2	-1.8
Izturis	SS	19	-0.3	-0.6	-0.9	-0.6
Aybar	SS	59	-1.8	-0.4	-2.2	-1.7
Cabrera	SS	1278	-5.6	-5.2	-10.7	-8.1
Willits	LF	513	5.6	-1.8	3.8	3.2
Murphy	LF	26	0.0	3.8	3.8	3.2
Aybar	LF	21	-0.6	1.5	0.9	0.8
Haynes	LF	22	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.8
Gorneault	LF	15	0.6	0.3	0.9	0.7
Quinlan	LF	70	0.5	-3.0	-2.5	-2.1
Anderson	LF	682	-5.9	-6.4	-12.3	-10.2
Murphy	CF	4	0.1	-0.2	0.0	0.0
Haynes	CF	46	-1.1	-1.3	-2.4	-2.0
Matthews	CF	1109	-12.8	8.1	-4.7	-3.9
Willits	CF	198	-6.7	-5.3	-12.0	-10.1
Morales	RF	9	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.8
Murphy	RF	49	0.2	0.4	0.6	0.5
Evans	RF	21	0.2	-0.3	-0.1	-0.1
Quinlan	RF	19	0.4	-0.5	-0.1	-0.1
Figgins	RF	49	-0.1	-0.1	-0.3	-0.2
Haynes	RF	34	-0.9	0.5	-0.4	-0.3
Willits	RF	204	-1.1	0.6	-0.6	-0.5
Rivera	RF	39	-2.6	-1.8	-4.4	-3.7
Guerrero	RF	930	-8.0	-9.6	-17.6	-14.9

Pitching

Name	IP	K/9	BB/9	HR/9	HR/F	%GB	BABIP	ERA	FIP	xFIP	OBPa	SLGa	OPSa	PRC
Lackey	210.0	7.3	2.2	0.8	9%	44%	0.307	3.13	3.61	4.16	0.313	0.384	0.697	107
Escobar	189.7	7.4	3.0	0.5	6%	44%	0.304	3.46	3.37	4.30	0.313	0.362	0.675	96
Weaver	155.0	6.6	2.6	0.9	8%	36%	0.327	4.01	3.97	4.78	0.334	0.421	0.755	65
Santana	144.0	7.5	3.5	1.5	13%	36%	0.326	5.63	5.03	4.94	0.358	0.487	0.845	44
Rodriguez	64.3	12.5	4.5	0.4	6%	44%	0.320	2.94	2.58	3.37	0.305	0.314	0.619	43
Saunders	96.7	5.6	2.8	0.7	8%	46%	0.325	3.82	4.00	4.60	0.341	0.423	0.764	42
Shields	74.0	8.8	3.8	0.9	11%	43%	0.263	3.77	3.90	4.20	0.303	0.331	0.634	36
Moseley	88.0	4.8	2.7	0.7	8%	49%	0.306	4.60	4.15	4.68	0.335	0.421	0.756	33
Oliver	61.7	7.1	3.4	0.7	7%	47%	0.272	3.35	3.83	4.57	0.302	0.338	0.640	29
Bootcheck	75.0	6.5	2.8	0.8	10%	45%	0.305	4.68	4.09	4.47	0.330	0.412	0.742	28
Speier	46.7	8.5	2.3	1.2	11%	37%	0.246	3.08	4.01	4.25	0.277	0.363	0.640	27
Colon	90.3	7.1	2.9	1.5	14%	40%	0.372	6.68	4.92	4.82	0.383	0.507	0.890	22
Carrasco	38.3	7.8	5.4	1.9	19%	43%	0.297	6.58	6.07	5.11	0.365	0.506	0.871	8
Bulger	3.3	13.6	8.2	0.0	0%	43%	0.287	2.73	2.90	4.29	0.334	0.167	0.501	3
Jones	8.7	5.2	5.2	2.1	19%	52%	0.276	6.21	7.11	6.17	0.381	0.528	0.909	2
Resop	4.3	4.2	2.1	2.1	26%	33%	0.300	4.19	5.99	4.39	0.357	0.539	0.896	2
Gwyn	4.0	2.3	6.8	4.5	23%	18%	0.200	4.50	11.45	8.17	0.381	0.667	1.048	1
Thompson	3.7	12.2	2.4	4.9	69%	44%	0.143	7.30	8.34	2.57	0.267	0.714	0.981	1