Take his April 11th game as the typical example of what he brings to the table:
- In the first, he struck out.
- In the second his singled. Stole Second. Scored on a ground ball that made its way to the outfield.
- In the fourth, he laid down a beautiful sac bunt that led to a run being scored.
- In the 5th, he was hit by a pitch, and scored from first on a double
- In the 7th, he grounded out to third
- In the 8th, he was hit by another pitch, and later scored
To date, Jennings is batting .285 with no power and 2 walks. Yet, in 32 games he already has 25 runs scored, 16 stolen bases, and a .385 on base percentage? How does a player who doesn't walk and have a league average batting average, manage to get on base at 38.5% clip? He's been hit by a pitch 20 times, and is on pace for 125 runs scored and an incredible 100 hit by pitches.
And before your cry foul - in 130 real life games Jennings recorded 51 real life beanings. But perhaps his 4 HBP performance on May 7, the Great Individual Feat that sparked the idea of this article, is a bit much to take.
Up to 22 HBP through sim 3B. Some more stats on this:
ReplyDeleteJennings has been hit in 13.8% of his plate appearances.
The mean among qualifying players (I fudged the qualifying marker a bit with a standardized cutoff at 34 games -- 105 PA) is 1.04. The standard deviation is 2.16. So, he's 9 SD from the mean.
Nothin' beats Standard Deviation talk in the morning
ReplyDeleteAlso, while researching Kevin Appier who turned in an 85 game score for me in a game following one which he was pulled after recording only one out, I see that in that May 7 game, Jennings was hit twice in the first inning! Once to lead off vs Appier, and once later in that 6-run inning by Seward.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure my strategy is to have Jennings take as many pitches as humanly possible...and he might be taking it a little too literally
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