Consistency meter: Adrian Beltre
Not buying it.
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Aaron Campeau
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At the risk of letting my eyes decieve me
that’s why I’m not buying it. He was just absolutely destroying the ball. He hit a home run from his knees for heaven’s sake. Maybe his average HR distance is down because he hit more LD HRs than usual? I don’t know. But based on what I saw from him last year, this just doesn’t add up.
by Aaron Campeau on Dec 30, 2008 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
Hit Tracker Online
says only 32% of Beltre’s homeruns “cleared the fence by less than 10 vertical feet, OR that it landed less than one fence height past the fence. These are the ones that barely made it over the fence”
http://hittrackeronline.com/detail.php?id=2008_4284&type=hitter
League average is 27%
Yeah, not buying this.
That ligament in his thumb. Or tendon. Had to have some kind of impact, other than losing a month of playing time.
Plus with all the free swingers on the team, that cuts down on plate appearances, and the opportunities to hit. Unless that’s a misconception on my part. $5 says somebody has done an analytical study that refutes that idea.
Formerly dpseadvr.
Adrian Beltre by year
2006: 25 homers, 389ft average standard distance
2007: 26, 401
2008: 25, 384
2008 looks an awful lot like 2006. Guess what didn’t happen in 2007?
Which of course begs the question
if he was hitting the ball that much harder in 2007 when healthy, why didn’t he hit more home runs?
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