I spent some time today staring at the Blue Jays' statistics so far this year. (Since it's a rainy workday, and I needed to cheer myself up, I spent more time on the hitting stats than the pitching ones.) Here's a few interesting numbers for you:
- Vernon Wells and Tom Wilson have each walked 11 times, and have each struck out 26. Rocking-chair Tom has compiled his numbers in 84 at-bats, while Vernon has needed 193.
- Carlos Delgado is not the Jays' leader in extra-base hits or total bases - Wells is. Vernon has 28 extra-base hits to Carlos's 24, and 106 total bases to Carlos's 101. To think that the Jays have this guy locked up for four more years.
- Eric Hinske seems to have refined his game to exclusively doubles: he leads the team with 18, but has done nothing else noteworthy with the bat. He has as many runs scored as doubles; can't anyone get this guy home from first?
- I hardly ever seem to notice Josh Phelps doing much these days, but he still has an OPS of .847, which is better than a boot in the head. He's drawing more walks; I think opposing pitchers are avoiding his power zone.
- Carlos Delgado and Greg Myers are the only Jays with more home runs than doubles. Myers's OPS is a healthy 1.004. Tom Wilson's is .881. (Ken Huckaby's was .200.)
- Congratulations to Tanyon Sturtze, who has already exceeded last year's win total (he's got 4). Go in there and ask for a raise, Tanyon!
- One traditional measure of pitching competence is hits per innings pitched: good pitchers usually give up less than a hit an inning. Right now, only Cory Lidle and Cliff Politte meet that standard, and both only barely. The next-best Jay in this category? Doug Creek.
- Of course, this doesn't mean that Doug Creek has actually been any good: he's given up the same number of walks in 13 innings as Cory Lidle has given up in 67. Still, at least he's not Jeff Tam, who has walked more batters than any current member of the Jays' starting rotation.
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