Royals Hitters in July - DeJesus and Butler Hot, Everyone Else Cold
Monthly splits are basically garbage as an analytical tool, especially when you have July, with that big fat break in the middle. When I first started blogging, I looked at monthly splits all the time. Not because I thought they were super important -- I wasn't that bad -- I just thought they were interesting. Maybe they are. I dunno. Players get hot, players get cold, the world spins around. The one useful thing about monthly splits I suppose, is that once you get deep into the season, you can see progress or regression that's been masked by a complementary hot or cold start.
In any event, if the July splits tell us anything, it is that no one is hitting right now:
- David DeJesus and Billy Butler are having nice months. DDJ is hitting .357/.444/.457 in July. Too bad he sucks and isn't a true Royal and smiles too much. Butler leads all Royals in July OPS with a .324/.400/.535 line.
- Callaspo has been solid, if not legitimately good as well: .308/.357/.446. As has Teahen, though I'd like to see more power. Mark's hit .323/.362/.415.
- After that you get nothing. Here are the OPSes for the other regulars. Jacobs: .665. St. Willie: .642 (actually a good month by his standards). Guillen: .513. Olivo: .445. Freel, Buck, Maier, TPJ, and Luis Hernandez have been/were all terrible as well.
- The overall team line for the month thus far: .259/.312/.372.
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3 out of the four good Royals hitters in July have something in common.
Who are they and what is it?
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Pshh easy as cake
Teahen, Butler, and DDJ.
None of them where aquired by GMDM
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jul 24, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions
um, no they're hitting well
but you were totally right about Teahen, weren’t you!
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by Matt Klaassen on Jul 24, 2009 11:32 PM EDT up reply actions
You forgot Yuni
He had a triple his first game!
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Jacobs line is still weird
.171/.237/.429
can’t wait for Hillman to find a way to bench Jacobs against RHP Feldman, play Freel, and continue Bloomquist’s consecutive games streak tonight
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David's beautiful smile
I especially like his poop eating grin after he gets picked off 1st base on a 3-2 count.
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Butler, DDJ, Callaspo and Teahen have talent
the others not so much
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