A few notes and other musings for this Monday morning…
The Giants’ trade acquisitions — Jeff Keppinger, Orlando Cabrera, and Carlos Beltran — have not been drawing walks since coming over. The three have combined for just four walks in 146 plate appearances (a 2.7% walk rate). With Keppinger and Cabrera, it’s not terribly surprising, considering that they own career walk rates of 7.1% and 6.3% respectively and hadn’t been walking much with their previous teams. With Carlos Beltran, however (one walk in a small 46-PA sample size), has a career walk rate north of 10%, and he had posted a clip of 14.3% with the Mets this season.
Pablo Sandoval‘s resurgent 2011 season is not something to be taken for granted. He’s bounced back in two ways: First, from his disappointing 2010 season (though he was essentially a league-average third baseman, which is inherently valuable); and secondly, he’s recovered quite well post-hamate fracture, ...
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