Oh, and still love me some German. (or at least like)

I assume “The Smirk” is Gordon? I would have guessed that he and Aviles would have swapped positions from these shown. The first picture in my mind of Gordon is him always walking back to the dugout after a huuuge whiff. I know, I didn’t inspect any stats, just my impressions from viewing the games. Statistically, I guess Gordon gets on base far more often than it seems. How does he do that?

…at least put their real names in parenthesis after the nickname? I’m interested, but don’t immediately recognize The Smirk, Baconator, and Hoagy. – TL

but Both Bloomquist and Crisp are around just under 24%, right around DDJ. Which just goes to show (as if “Gator” Gathright being where he is isn’t enough evidence) that while good judgment is part fo being a good hitter, it doesn’t get you all the way there…

Love the graph.

Few thoughts on the results:

- Love German and Callapso’s numbers. It’s sad that German probably going to get dumped for nothing in a few weeks.

- I assume Gator’s number is pretty low because he’s never up there long enough to see many pitches. He was bunting or taking a half swing at the first pitch in the zone — Swinging to (soft) contact, similar to the Baird era pitching approach

- I was surprised Olivo was more of a hacker than TPJ. I remember seeing TPJ’s number being pretty high during the first half of his rookie season and predicting huge regression due to pitchers picking up on his hacktastic tendencies. I assume Olivo’s overall numbers will drop badly as his increased playing time with his hacktastic tendencies will be exploited in the same manner.

- I expect a large regression from Aviles in part based on those numbers (plus BABIP), but think his numbers will still be decent enough for SS.

- Any team want to pick up the salary of a malcontent, free-swinging RF? Especially since the Royals have pretty much admitted that they’d love to pick up some of the remaining FA, but don’t have the budget for it right now.

two stats seem to indicate he was pressing. His OSwing% was 5% lower than at any time in the last four years and his BB% was the lowest it has been in 10 years. Combine that with nearly his lowest BABIP in any season he has played 100+ games and I expect a nice bounce back season from Guillen. Obviously this will hinge on him coming into camp in shape since that was a significant reason he probably had some of those stats last year but trying to play up to a contract could’ve played into it as well. He will be 33 which isn’t exactly a graveyard age although he won’t be reaching his peak performance. This is total guess but maybe he gets back into that .345 OBP range combined with a .460 SLG range.

TPJ’s name on there.