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Mets OPS By Position

Position NL Avg Mets NL Rank
P .361 .342 11
C .742 .729 9
1B .836 .809 8
2B .752 .710 11
3B .759 .880 2
SS .717 .723 6
LF .810 .857 6
CF .774 1.024 1
RF .779 .654 14

 

Where would this 28-23 team be without Carlos Beltran, David Wright, and Gary Sheffield?  They've carried an offense receiving subpar production from catcher and the right side of the infield, and downright embarrassing production from right field.  It's been a season to forget for Ryan Church, the main right field culprit.  His isolated power (ISO), which is slugging % minus batting average, is a rotten .080 and Mets right fielders as a whole are at .076.  For comparison, Luis Castillo's is .056.  The Mets are still a respectable 5th in the league in runs scored per game. However, that won't last when (if?) Omir Santos and Wilson Valdez regress and if Daniel Murphy can't figure out how to stop hitting weak groundballs.  The best we can hope for is that Beltran and Jose Reyes perform well when they return, and Omar Minaya adds a bat like Nick Johnson or Josh Willingham

Some other items of note from around the league:

  • There's a reason the McCovey Chronicles tagline is "In play: Outs".  The Giants offense is unfathomably awful, as their team OPS is .687.  No amount of RsBI can mask Bengie Molina's .688 OPS, and broke-face Aaron Rowand has been the only standout performer.  First baseman Travis Ishikawa is the Giants version of Church, slugging .336 as the everyday first baseman.  Ishikawa has shown some promise in the minor leagues though, and is still just 25 years old.
  • Miguel Tejada is blowing up at the plate this season, hitting .362/.388/.546.  Astros fans can't love that 2.8% BB%, and since his .367 BABIP is way higher than his career mark he should crash back down to earth pretty soon.  I'll dare say his performance is unsustainable.
  • It's fascinating to look at stats for Rockies RF Brad Hawpe.  He's absolutely mashing and has been the best hitting RF in the league.  Then you look at his defensive stats, which are so bad they almost wipe out his offensive contributions. 

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Really good stuff James,

I really enjoy looking at data like this but just too lazy to put it together myself, so many thanks.

I just want to point out that while our second base production has been weak OPS wise, looking at the make up of our main contributor, Castillo’s OPS is the silver lining. Luis has a triple slash of .285/.380/.340, since OBP is worth (debatably) 3 times SLG, while Luis’ OPS looks below average, he offense has been at 2004 level with a .330 wOBA.

Using the inferior metric of EqA (plus side being I don’t have to do any math,) Luis has an EqA of .271, all major leaguers manning the under-the-shirt-over-the-bra base have an accumlated EqA of .265. Meaning Castillo himself has actually been above average offensively, too bad his UZR has been less than impressive.

by Sokojoe on Jun 3, 2009 1:02 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I wanted to do this with wOBA

but couldn’t find league average wOBA by position without doing some annoying calculations. Agreed on Castillo, his OPS is OBP heavy so it’s not as bad as it looks. +/- agrees with UZR on his defense so far, unfortunately. Projected over a full season he looks to be about a 1 WAR player, which isn’t great but I guess an improvement over the 2nd base situation last season.

by James Kannengieser on Jun 3, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

wOBA

You could probably get a rough idea by breaking down FanGraphs’ team stat rankings by position and then just averaging the wOBAs.

by Eric Simon on Jun 3, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

.710 from second base is actually pretty good considering what we got last year

Like I would have taken anything within .100 points of average from second base after last year.

by Gina on Jun 3, 2009 1:06 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Can you link to source for this?

I’d like to confirm my suspicion that the Braves RF / CF are 16th in the NL and LF in the bottom 1/3.

by fphjr01 on Jun 3, 2009 1:15 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Braves

LF: .332 wOBA, 11th in NL
CF: .265 wOBA, 15th in NL (only the D-Backs and superstar in the making Chris Young are worse)
RF: .278 wOBA, 15th in NL

It’s amazing how 2 awesome months, an SI cover, and a bunch of RsBI from have affected the average fan’s perception of Jeff Francouer.

by James Kannengieser on Jun 3, 2009 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

murphy

ok, good, my eyes aren’t fooling me, it isn’t just an unlucky babip and those are some weak-ass worm-killers he is hitting. And frankly, I doubt the worms are too worried either.

by wobatus on Jun 3, 2009 1:21 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

No way

The worms know that Daniel Murphy means business.*

*Business here means killing worms, not getting on base.

by mets81 on Jun 3, 2009 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

New nickname for Murph?

Daniel “Vermicide” Murphy

by deadspy3 on Jun 4, 2009 5:23 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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