With Michael Lewis's famous book Moneyball shining the light on the ways that the Oakland Athletics tried to achieve a statistical advantage, as well as the current trends in analyzing the way the game of baseball is played, statistical analysis has become a popular pasttime over the last few years. While this is an interesting trend, it seems to really only be used when talking about Major League Baseball, as opposed to including the college game as well.
With college baseball it seems that we get your basic stats for each player: batting average, hits, runs, walks, strikeouts and so on. However, I thought it would be interesting to try and bring together some of the more in-depth "sabermetric" stats for the 2007 Gators baseball team as their season comes into full swing.
This doesn't mean I'll go into the ridiculous stats such as "VORP" (Value Over Replacement Player) or "OPS Win Shares," but instead will just try and put together the more than basic stats that are looked at with regularity for the Major Leagues.
The offensive stats include OPS (OBP+SLG), BB% (Walk %), K% (Strikeout %), ISO (Isolated Power) and BABIP (Batting Average of Balls in Play).
For pitchers we will look at K/BB, HR/9 (Homeruns per 9 IP) and WHIP (Walks+Hits per IP). I will try to get those stats up by Tomorrow afternoon (prior to the game).
Batters
Only players with 10 or more AB's will be looked at.
OPS: (OBP+SLG), a rough look at a player's contribution to a team's offense.
Team: .921
- Matt LaPorta 1.490
- Austin Pride 1.185
- Clayton Pisani 1.076
- Jon Townsend 1.060
- Cole Figueroa .996
- Cody Neer .900
- Chris Petrie .818
- Bryson Barber .713
- Matt den Dekker .669
- Avery Barnes .672
- Jonathan Pigott .578
- Dustin Bamberg .533
- Brian Leclerc .306
- Pride .444
- Barber .417
- LaPorta .400
- Townsend .400
- Barnes .375
- Pigott .364
- Pisani .353
- Figueroa .320
- Neer .261
- Bamberg .250
- Petrie .222
- den Dekker .190
- Leclerc .111
Team: 9.2%
- Bamberg 16.6%
- den Dekker 16.1%
- Pisani 14.8%
- LaPorta 14.3%
- Pride 12.5%
- Barber 11.1%
- Barnes 8.3%
- Leclerc 5.8%
- Townsend 5.3%
- Pigott 5.2%
- Neer 3.2%
- Figueroa 2.8%
- Petrie 0%
Team: 19.2%
- LaPorta 3.3%
- Petrie 9.0%
- Townsend 11.1%
- Figueroa 12.5%
- Neer 16.6%
- Bamberg 20%
- Pisani 21.7%
- Barber 25.0%
- den Dekker 26.9%
- Barnes 27.2%
- Pride 28.5%
- Leclerc 35.7%
- Pigott 38.8%
Team: .231
- LaPorta .433
- Pride .357
- Pisani .305
- Neer .300
- Figueroa .281
- Petrie .272
- Townsend .250
- den Dekker .154
- Barber .000
- Barnes .091
- Pigott .056
- Bamberg .000
- Leclerc .000
As a team we could definitely get our strikeouts down and our walks up. Some better at bats may be in order. These stats also show us that our lineup may be a little top-heavy at this point, with guys like Figueroa, Townsend, LaPorta, Pride and Pisani giving us most of our production. Again, I think a lot of these guys lower in the order will break out of their mini-slumps and give the Gators some good ABs in the upcoming games.
Remember, I'll be getting the pitching stats up ASAP.
Go Gators!!!