I needed a break from the regular series recaps, because there is only so much you can say every 3 games and still be moderately interesting. So, I pulled some interesting statistical numbers for the Phillies from ESPN, FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus and actually found some real good stuff.
Today I'm doing the hitters, and later in the week I will look at the pitchers. Since a lot of this stuff will be new to people, it is necessary to start off with a glossary:
P/PA - Pitches per plate appearance
BABIP - Batting average on balls hit in play. Higher infers good luck, lower infers bad luck
Clutch - A metric by FanGraphs that measures how a player performs in "high leverage" situations (i.e. situations with a large affect on the outcome of the game) vs. their performance in normal situations
FB%, SL%, CT%, CB%, CH%, SF%- The percentage of total pitches thrown to a batter that are fastballs (FB), sliders (SL), cutters (CT), curve balls (CB), change-ups (CH) or split...
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