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New Haven Ravens - 2003 Home/Road Splits

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Thanks to Homsar for providing us with this material.

NEW HAVEN HOME TEAM STATISTICS Through Games of 9/15/03

PLAYER AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS SLG OBP E
Umbria, Jose,C .545 3 11 3 6 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 .545 .545 1
*Godwin, Tyrell,OF .365 15 52 8 19 4 1 0 5 2 13 2 0 .481 .382 2
Sanders, Anthony,OF .357 11 42 7 15 4 0 1 6 0 11 0 0 .524 .372 0
*Gross, Gabe,OF .356 42 146 31 52 10 2 2 22 29 28 1 1 .493 .475 2
*Pond, Simon,3B .355 30 107 23 38 8 1 3 26 20 15 1 0 .533 .462 8
*Adams, Russ,SS .344 32 131 24 45 6 3 3 12 13 16 6 0 .504 .403 9
Rios, Alexis,OF .339 62 248 37 84 14 2 6 32 16 38 7 2 .484 .383 1
Deschaine, Jim,1B .304 9 23 2 7 2 0 0 4 4 3 0 0 .391 .407 1
Fagan, Shawn,1B .301 58 196 37 59 8 2 2 24 33 43 1 1 .393 .407 9
*Griffin, John-Ford,OF .289 52 180 25 52 14 2 6 36 26 37 2 0 .489 .375 2
Chiaffredo, Paul,C .284 37 109 16 31 3 1 5 15 9 29 1 0 .468 .350 0
*Thompson, Rich,OF .282 23 85 15 24 1 0 0 4 5 14 5 2 .294 .344 1
Quiroz, Guillermo,C .269 49 156 22 42 12 0 8 38 25 36 0 0 .500 .369 1
Sequea, Jorge,SS .269 16 52 5 14 1 0 0 0 5 12 0 2 .288 .333 6
*Logan, Matt,1B .265 44 136 22 36 9 0 1 21 18 18 1 0 .353 .346 1
Solano, Danny,SS .253 59 182 25 46 15 3 1 27 26 35 2 0 .385 .355 8
Keene, Kurt,3B .250 16 56 4 14 5 0 0 4 1 4 0 0 .339 .276 3
*Rich, Dominic,2B .239 58 197 20 47 9 0 1 22 13 26 0 0 .299 .299 5
*Singleton, Justin,OF .209 42 115 16 24 4 1 0 9 9 38 2 0 .261 .270 2
#Patrick, Brian,OF .125 9 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 .125 .263 4
Kratz, Erik,C .000 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000 0
Whittaker, Tim,C .000 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 .000 .125 0

NEW HAVEN ROAD TEAM STATISTICS Through Games of 9/15/03

PLAYER AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS SLG OBP E
#Patrick, Brian,OF .444 5 9 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 .444 .444 0
Sequea, Jorge,SS .407 17 59 12 24 6 0 2 13 6 9 0 2 .610 .456 1
Rios, Alexis,OF .365 65 266 49 97 18 9 5 50 23 47 4 1 .556 .419 2
*Thompson, Rich,OF .340 26 97 24 33 4 1 0 5 5 10 10 1 .402 .398 2
Fagan, Shawn,1B .324 57 225 41 73 6 1 3 26 29 39 3 1 .400 .398 5
*Pond, Simon,3B .322 31 121 21 39 9 0 4 23 19 18 0 1 .496 .420 12
Keene, Kurt,3B .299 27 97 14 29 2 0 2 19 9 8 2 1 .381 .355 4
*Singleton, Justin,OF .295 42 129 25 38 7 3 3 22 13 35 2 0 .465 .349 4
Quiroz, Guillermo,C .291 59 213 41 62 15 0 12 41 20 47 0 0 .531 .374 3
*Gross, Gabe,OF .287 42 164 21 47 13 1 5 29 23 25 2 1 .470 .374 1
*Rich, Dominic,2B .280 50 193 29 54 13 2 2 24 17 22 1 4 .399 .352 5
Solano, Danny,SS .271 64 214 29 58 15 1 1 16 23 30 1 2 .364 .340 8
*Logan, Matt,1B .270 48 163 23 44 5 1 2 15 21 19 2 2 .350 .372 4
*Griffin, John-Ford,OF .269 52 193 23 52 9 1 7 39 23 48 0 0 .435 .348 1
*Godwin, Tyrell,OF .268 18 71 12 19 2 2 1 8 1 14 4 1 .394 .288 1
Chiaffredo, Paul,C .247 29 93 12 23 5 0 2 14 12 30 0 1 .366 .339 0
Sanders, Anthony,OF .231 17 65 13 15 4 1 2 9 8 13 0 0 .415 .315 0
Deschaine, Jim,1B .222 7 18 2 4 1 0 0 2 4 3 0 0 .278 .364 0
*Adams, Russ,SS .214 33 140 18 30 4 1 1 14 17 21 2 1 .279 .299 7
Umbria, Jose,C .000 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .273 0
Whittaker, Tim,C .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 0

For entertainment purposes only. Not to be taken internally.

Posted by Craig B on Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 11:05 AM EST.

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_John Neary - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 11:57 AM EST (#86874) #

New Haven Ravens aggregate team stats, 2003

(Switch-hitters excluded)

BA = H/AB
OBP = (H+BB)/(AB+BB)
SLG = TB/AB

Home batting stats, 2003


                        AB    BA   OBP   SLG
Left-handed hitters   1149  .293  .368  .381
Right-handed hitters  1086  .293  .363  .388

Road batting stats, 2003


                        AB    BA   OBP   SLG
Left-handed hitters   1271  .280  .351  .371
Right-handed hitters  1261  .305  .373  .404

Difference (home-road), 2003


                        AB     BA    OBP    SLG
Left-handed hitters   1271   .013   .017   .011
Right-handed hitters  1261  -.013  -.010  -.017

In 2003, Yale Field gave left-handed batters an advantage of .026/.027/.027 relative to right-handed batters. You could correct for this in any number of ways; one of them would be adjusting the batting stats of right-handers up by .013/.013/.014 (or, conversely, adjusting the batting stats of left-handers downwards by the same amount). A more robust method would be to use some sort of multiplicative correction to and look at the overall EL stats to see whether the park has a positive effect on lefties, a negative effect on righties or both.

Disclaimer: I haven't done significance tests on any of these numbers. If someone would like to do them, I'd love to hear the p values.

Pistol - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 12:04 PM EST (#86875) #

Player
Home OPS
Road OPS

LHB:

Gross
.968
.844

Pond
.995
.916

Adams
.907
.578

JFG
.874
.783
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RHB

Quiroz
.869
.905

Rios
.867
.975

Among top Jays prospects, lefthanded batters all were better at home. Righthanded batters were better on the road.

Russ Adams on the road - ouch.

_John Neary - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 12:07 PM EST (#86876) #

Please ignore the "AB" column in my third table. The rest of the data in that table are, I believe, correct, but I ought to have removed the "AB" column.

_logan - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 12:13 PM EST (#86877) #

Pistol, why use OPS? are walks or even singles that park-affected?

Even so, Quiroz and Rios don't look like they were seriously hurt by the ballpark. Q's isolated power numbers are the same home and road.

Pistol - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 12:20 PM EST (#86878) #

Pistol, why use OPS? are walks or even singles that park-affected?

I wanted to use something 'quick and dirty' to see the differences between road and home. After posting I realized my 'analysis' was weak compared to John's.

_John Neary - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 02:07 PM EST (#86879) #

are walks or even singles that park-affected?

I believe that walks and singles may be strongly influenced by park factors. Things like temperature, visibility, and the amount of foul territory in play will have an impact on all batting statistics, including walks. The playing surface will clearly have a strong influence on singles. I am under the impression that there are major league ballparks that are known to increase or decrease just about every important batting rate.

As I mentioned earlier, New Haven righties had a .026/.027/.027 advantage over New Haven lefties in Yale Field this year. Significance considerations aside, that looks like a whole lot of singles to me. If the stadium were altering power numbers, we'd expect to see a greater difference in SLG than in BA or OBP.

By the way, Craig, great job getting these numbers for us.

Mike Green - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 02:11 PM EST (#86880) #

Again, Craig B and Homsar, thank you for the statistical detail. It was obviously much more thorough and up-to-date than Callis' numbers in July.

Thank you also to John Neary for the processing of the data into fine chart form. It would be great for minor league watchers if this kind of data was available for the other franchises in the system.

_John Neary - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 02:43 PM EST (#86881) #

Boy, my last comment was stupid ... (continued)

_John Neary - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 02:53 PM EST (#86882) #

Logan, you raise an interesting point: How would a ballpark differentially influence walk or single rates for hitters of different handedness? More specifically, how would it influence walk or single rates independent of home run (or extra base hit) rates?

Needless to say, I am sure this is what you meant when you wrote "are walks or even singles that park-affected?" I naively took it to mean "how would a ballpark influence single or walk rates at all."

I'm not sure that I have a good explanation for you. Nevertheless, off the top of my head, the differences look like they might be significant, so we can't just ignore them.

_R Billie - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 03:48 PM EST (#86883) #

Coor's Field is an example of a park that influences everything. Pitchers are afraid (or unable) to throw strikes in the thin air. The huge outfield allows more singles or XBH than normal. And of course the altitude plays havoc with both the pitchers' command and how far a batted ball can travel resulting in higher power numbers. The better you are at hitting all around, the more the field benefits you. Which is why Todd Helton and Larry Walker are superstars rather than just very very good players.

I could be wrong but from a quick total up I get these numbers (my OBP numbers are probably wrong as I don't have HBP or SF/SH data):

Lefties home: .293/.368/.409, .116 ISO (1149 ab)
Lefties away: .280/.351/.410, .130 ISO (1271 ab)

Righties home: .293/.363/.430, .137 ISO (1086 ab)
Righties away: .305/.373/.450, .145 ISO (1261 ab)

So assuming I haven't made a major mistake, it does look like righties see a mild benefit to power on the road while lefties see a benefit to batting average at home but not necessarily power. Though it does make sense for a power split to seem more apparent in players who have a significant amount of it. Rich Thompson hit for more power on the road but he's not a power hitter so that's more likely random. Russ Adams was just plain bad on the road and I don't think park effects have anything to do with that. More likely just bad stretches during road trips. Griffin and Gross though would pull a lot of balls in the air so maybe a handful more go over which is enough to affect the numbers signficantly in a half season or so.

Again

_R Billie - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 03:57 PM EST (#86884) #

Needless to say, hot damn that was a good hitting team in New Haven.

_Jeff Geauvreau - Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 08:38 PM EST (#86885) #

Hijack: BA reports that Vito Chiaravalloti�s instructional league stint ended early when he had arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow to remove bone chips.

Hopefully he will be fully recovered for next season.
Hijack off:

Thanks for the great stats! Syracuse should have a great hitting team next season.

Pistol - Monday, November 03 2003 @ 08:25 AM EST (#86886) #

http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/contents.shtml
Hijack - Baseball-Reference has the 2003 stats available now.

Pepper Moffatt - Monday, November 03 2003 @ 08:42 AM EST (#86887) #

http://economics.about.com
Nice.. they've got the "Similar Batters Through Age XX" updated. Here they are for the Jays:

C Tom Wilson = Frank Gibson (who?)
C Greg Myers = Pat Borders (neat!)
DH Josh Phelps = Rico Brogna
1B Carlos Delgado = Fred McGriff
2B Orlando Hudson = Tim Teufel
SS Chris Woodward = Orlando Miller
3B Eric Hinske = Butch Hobson
OF Bobby Kielty = Downtown Mike Brown
OF Vernon Wells = Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter
OF Frank Catalanotto = Bob Nieman
OF Reed Johnson = Allie Clark

Some of these seem pretty strange to me. I'd be interested in seeing the PECOTA comparables list.

I'll do the pitchers later. The bad news is Roy Halladay = Freddie Garcia.

Cheers,

Mike

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