Showdown: Santos’ OBP vs. Molina’s OBP [Graph]

The Mets need a catcher.  Bengie Molina is available.  The Mets will likely be interested.

Say the Mets sign Molina and pair him with Omir Santos as the Mets catchers in 2010, can you imagine the battle to keep their combined OBP above .600?

Here is a chart with Santos’ and Molina’s OBP for every year from 2001 on, Santos’ first year in pro ball.  All numbers for Santos are minor league stats except for 2009.

Please, no.  Don’t let it happen.  I don’t want to see a two-man battle for futility.

Graph: 2009 Mets, by age

Breakdown of the 53 Mets players to appear on the roster in 2009, broken down by age.

Can you name the one 20-year-old and two 40-year-olds?

(All ages gathered from Baseball-Reference.com)

Graph: Mets Top 10 HR leaders in 2009

Albert Pujols led the league with 47 home runs.  The league average was 10. 

Five Mets at least met the league average, while only one surpassed it.

It should be noted that Carlos Beltran hit 10 home runs in 357 plate appearances, Gary Sheffield hit 10 home runs in 312 plate appearances and Jeff Francoeur hit his 10 home runs in 308 PAs.

Mets Top 10 OBP in 2009

Here’s a fun little chart.  Expect more in the coming days and weeks…

Poll: Pelfrey’s the resident ace right now

In a somewhat joke of a poll, I asked fans who the ace of the Mets rotation was now that Johan Santana is on the DL. 

Here are the results…I’m shocked how many votes Pat Misch and Nelson Figueroa garnered.

Now if only Mike Pelfrey can turn in his last performance for the every start.

Next Poll: Is Omir Santos your starting catcher in 2010?

Mets DL trips [Graph]

This is truly remarkable.Above is a chart of the Mets roster and call-ups and their time on the DL, as of Sept. 1.

Obviously, there’s too much data to fit here.  Click over to Sean Engelhardt’s site to view the full image.

Prepare to chuckle to yourself and shake your head in disbelief.

Tracking David Wright [Day 34]

David Wright, 8/12: 3-5, 2 R, K

AVG: .325 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: -.001)

OBP: .415 (Change from previous game: +.001, Change from Game 81: +.001)

SLG: .468 (Change from previous game: +.002, Change from Game 81: -.002)

Will the Mets finish in last place in the NL East?

The New York Mets are currently 53-61, a .465 winning percentage.  They’ve dropped seven of their last 10 and 10 of their last 14.

The team currently last in the NL East, the Washington Nationals, are 40-74, a .351 winning percentage.  But they’re won eight of their last 10 games.

So with the basic Excel skills I know, I wanted to see if the Mets could end up in last place in 2009. 

Answer: It’s possible (maybe if the season never ended).

Here’s the two teams winning percentages on a graph, with an average trendline.  (Basic trendline rules: trendline going up = winning more games of late, trendline going down = winning less games as of late.)As you can see, the Nationals have been winning more games lately, while the Mets have not.

Taking a very rudimentary approach to extrapolating this out, I turned to Photoshop and traced the trendlines out, so you could see what would eventually happen if both teams stay on their respective paths.Eventually, if the season lasted forever, the Nationals would overtake the Mets if each team kept playing (read: winning and losing) at their current pace.

I’m not sure if this is possible in the games left for the 2009 season, but if they just kept playing baseball until next March, it would happen.

The Mets can stay out of the basement with a few more wins here or there, but if they don’t veer off their current path, the Nationals may have a change to leap-frog them into fourth place.

Scary, isn’t it?

Tracking David Wright [Day 29]

David Wright, 8/7: 3-4, 2B, R, RBI

AVG: .330 (Change from previous game: +.004, Change from Game 81: +.004)

OBP: .422 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: +.008)

SLG: .479 (Change from previous game: +.005, Change from Game 81: +.009)

Tracking David Wright [Day 24]

David Wright, 8/2: 0-4

AVG: .322 (Change from previous game: -.003, Change from Game 81: -.004)

OBP: .413 (Change from previous game: -.004, Change from Game 81: -.001)

SLG: .468 (Change from previous game: -.004, Change from Game 81: –.002)

Tracking David Wright [Day 17]

David Wright, 7/27: 2-3, 2 R, BB, K

AVG: .321 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: -.005)

OBP: .412 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: -.002)

SLG: .458 (Change from previous game: +.002, Change from Game 81: –.012)

Tracking David Wright [Day 16]

David Wright, 7/26: 2-5, 2B, 2 RBI

AVG: .318 (Change from previous game: +.001, Change from Game 81: -.008)

OBP: .409 (Change from previous game: .000, Change from Game 81: -.005)

SLG: .456 (Change from previous game: -.002, Change from Game 81: –.014)

Tracking David Wright [Day 10]

Oops.  Missed a few days.  Let’s pick this up again.

David Wright, 7/19: 0-3, BB, K

AVG: .322 (Change from previous game: -.002, Change from Game 81: -.004)

OBP: .411 (Change from previous game: -.002, Change from Game 81: -.003)

SLG: .457 (Change from previous game: -.004, Change from Game 81: –.013)

Tracking David Wright [Day 5]

David Wright, 7/10: 0-4, K

AVG: .324 (Change from previous game: -.004, Change from Game 81: -.002)

OBP: .412 (Change from previous game: -.004, Change from Game 81: -.002)

SLG: .462 (Change from previous game: -.006, Change from Game 81: –.008)

Tracking David Wright [Day 4]

David Wright, 7/9: 2-3, BB, R

AVG: .328 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: +.002)

OBP: .416 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: +.002)

SLG: .468 (Change from previous game: +.002, Change from Game 81: –.004)

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The black lines on the strikeout chart represent the overall trend line (the thick line) and the moving average over 10 game periods (the thin line).

Oliver Perez’s balls and strikes

This is a simple pie chart of Oliver Perez’s balls and strikes from his start on July 8, 2009.  I guess this is where the seven walks stems from.

Tracking David Wright [Day 3]

David Wright, 7/8: 2-4, RBI, 2 R

AVG: .325 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: –.001)

OBP: .413 (Change from previous game: –.001, Change from Game 81: –.001)

SLG: .466 (Change from previous game: +/-.000, Change from Game 81: –.006)

  Click for full size.

The black lines on the strikeout chart represent the overall trend line (the thick line) and the moving average over 10 game periods (the thin line).

Tracking David Wright [Day 2]

David Wright, 7/7: 0-3, BB

AVG: .322 (-.004)

OBP: .412 (-.002)

SLG: .466 (-.004)

Click for full size.

The black lines on the strikeout chart represent the overall trend line (the thick line) and the moving average over 10 game periods (the thin line).

Tracking David Wright [Day 1]

The Mets are at the halfway point of their season - 81 games played, 81 to go. David Wright has had a strange statistical season so far.

Starting today and going through the rest of the season, I will be tracking and charting some stats on Wright’s 2009 season. As of right now I will present his AVG, OBP and SLG in a combined line chart and his strikeouts per game in another. I will also break down his hits (singles, doubles, triples, home runs) in a pie chart.

If you have any suggestions for something else to track, please let me know.

David Wright vs. team strikeouts [Chart]

David Wright leads the team with 80 strikeouts.  In second place, Carlos Beltran has 34 and Ryan Church has K’d 33 times in third place.

Obviously, most of the team has been on the disabled list, outside of Wright.  There is a correlation that he has had by far the most plate appearances (341), giving him more chances to strike out.

Still, this chart is amazing to look at.