Jose Guillen is a really great baseball player. He, for example, if given the chance to play on your neighborhood softball team, would likely never make an out and hit a HR in every plate appearance. However, the MLB playoffs are not a neighborhood softball game.He’s already hit into 8 double plays in 139 plate appearances. To put that into context: Pablo Sandoval has grounded into a double play every 24 plate appearances, Guillen – for the Giants – every 17 PA.Defensively thus far for the Giants, Fangraphs has Guillen at a minus (-) 70 UZR per 150 games. This is obviously a small sample, but just wow.He’s walking only 3.6% of the time, and punching out nearly a quarter of the time (22.7%). He has a .692 OPS (.309 wOBA). His speed factor has been .6 – yes point six – or Bengie Molina like, if not slower. He’s actually been a bit lucky on balls in play; for the Giants his .320 BABIP is up 22 points from his career mark. His ground ball percentage is 56 for the Giants and his line dri...
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