Sentences with phrase «on his batting average»

Last year the Mets were the worst team in baseball by defensive efficiency -LRB-.667) and the worst team on batting average on balls in play -LRB-.322) while allowing more runs (863) than any team in franchise history except the infamous 1962 Mets.

He used to share stories with me at Michigan about how as a youth he kept individual statistics on his batting average in baseball, scoring average in basketball and touchdowns in football.

But most law firms are «drafting» new lawyers on their batting averages and win totals, and have been doing so for decades now.

Not exact matches

Sean Browne writes: You will see that the 60 % -70 % failure rate matches what most VC's are aiming for in their portfolio in way of a.300 + batting average on investments.

For much of its history, Major League Baseball has aligned the value of its players according to traditional stats, like batting average, home runs, stolen bases, earned run average and so on.

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«-LSB-...] Our target batting average is» 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 «which means that we expect to lose our entire investment on 1/3 of our investments, we expect to get our money back (or maybe make a small return) on 1/3 of our investments, and we expect to generate the bulk of our returns on 1/3 of our investments.»

His WAR is a cool 0.2, according to Baseball-Reference.com, and his current batting average, on - base percentage, and slugging percentage would all be the worst of his career.

It's also based on two statistics — batting average and RBIs — that we know to be less important when assessing overall performance.

With some help with batting average on balls in play, he can be an excellent bat off the bench.

BetDSI has also posted odds on both his ERA and batting average.

However, his deceptively productive spring -LRB-.425 average,.489 on - base percentage, nine home runs in 40 at - bats) means that a Strat - O - Matic card based on his stats is absolutely goofy.

Rollins is hitting into some bad luck, and not just with batting average on balls in play.

He led the team in batting average -LRB-.331), home runs (37), hits (213), and on - base percentage -LRB-.399).

Shave some points from his batting average and on - base percentage... give him fewer 160 - game seasons... heck, we know that he isn't going to steal 110 bases in this alternate reality.

Much of this is based on the assumption that Gordon's batting average will slip from.289 in 2014 to.256 in 2015.

It's also for the best for A-Rod, who had a decent enough start to the year outside of his batting average — his OPS was.705 on June 5 — but then saw everything else slip by the time mid-August rolled around.

The 2015 Steamer projections have Miguel Cabrera re-gaining his batting title with a.314 average indicating that there could once again be value on the under.

3B Chipper Jones, 28, Braves [SKINNY] At the break the ever - consistent Jones (above) led all third basemen in on - base percentage -LRB-.423) and slugging percentage -LRB-.621), was second in batting average -LRB-.325), RBIs (64) and walks (50), and was third in home runs (21).

Baseball purists argue that there's an unfair advantage based on ballpark since American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's rarely have the bench depth to install an above average designated hitter.

Our prop betting piece pointed out value on Billy Hamilton Under 59.5 steals, Jose Iglesias Under.290 batting average and Carlos Gonzalez Under 30.5 home runs.

They're nine games back in the AL Central but just 3.5 back in the wild card race behind four other teams, so there is hope, but they are also going to be without Miguel Cabrera — the current AL leader in both batting average and on - base percentage — for at least another month.

He led the team with a.349 batting average, 29 hits, and 18 RBI in the middle of a lineup that improved as the year rolled on.

Kramer Robertson has had a rough go of it in Omaha, with errors compounded on errors and a drowsiness at the plate unbefitting his.413 season batting average.

Automatic Elections: No automatic elections based on performances such as a batting average of.400 or more for one (1) year, pitching a perfect game or similar outstanding achievement shall be permitted.

«I'm here to raise the pitchers» batting averages on this team,» Seaver said prophetically.

There are 19 players who finished their careers with a batting average over.300, an on - base percentage over.400, and a slugging percentage over.500.

NL Rank (out of 15) Runs per game: 8th Runs scored: 9th Batting average: 9th On - base percentage: 11th Slugging percentage: 9th Adjusted OPS: 10th

Coleman had a particularly anemic year at the plate in»89 -LRB-.254,.316 on - base average), and despite an off - season tutorial with appropriately named batting coach Steve Braun, he might have to steal time away from the Cards» other regular outfielders — moving left to right, former MVP Willie McGee, Milt Thompson -LRB-.290, 68 RBIs, 27 stolen bases) and Tom Brunansky, who hit at least 20 homers in each of the last eight seasons.

It's a little tough to say for sure — especially given Buxton's batting average on balls in play is nearly.400 during these 55 games — but all the elements he needs to thrive are in place.

The Queens congressman and county Democratic boss had an uneven batting average at home this year, but his stats on the road were great.

Teeth and bones of the extinct bat — which was about three times the size of an average bat today — were recovered from 19 to 16 - million - year - old sediments near the town of St Bathans in Central Otago on the South Island.

Flying mammals also survived more on average: «If we split mammals into bats and nonflying mammals, bats behave kind of like the birds.»

Bats have a spacing of about 0.125 millimetres between their hairs on average, so they are getting about as much nectar from each dip as possible.

You may have a better overall batting average on other sites, but this one can lead to fun times.

That highly - quantitative theory ignores conventional baseball wisdom, scouting reports and popular stats like batting averages and RBIs in favor of lesser - appreciated indicators like slugging and on - base percentages which apparently have a higher correlation to wins and losses.

In the opening moments of the new NBC sitcom — based on the British series of the same name — co-workers Alex (Hank Azaria), recently divorced, and Helen (Kathryn Hahn), whose fiancé died, are struggling with postcoital etiquette after their one - night stand, which, to hear the stars tell it, lets you know right off the bat that this is not your average love story.

Again, a lesson from baseball: Perkins knew the concept of batting average, then he discovered the concept of «runs created,» a measure of how many runs a batter generates for each time at bat (on average)-- an index more important than just getting hits.

As New York Times columnist Richard Rothstein notes — a baseball player's batting average is never computed based on one game.

The best offensive players are the ones who get on base the most, not (necessarily) those with the highest batting average or home run count.

A few stocks going up or down dramatically will often have a much greater impact on portfolio performance than the batting average.»

No word yet on just how deep these price cuts will be, but knowing the batting average of the Ars Technica mole, cash - strapped gamers should have plenty of choices by the time the leaves start turning.

Putting unrelated variables on the same graph as the IPCC does systemically would enable one to prove that Hitler was an inverse product of Bradman's batting average in the 1930s.

Experiments at a site in Indiana in 2012 showed that feathering turbines when winds were slow reduced bat deaths by 30 percent on average.

«Since 1990, surface ocean pH has directly been measured or calculated at several locations, with the average recent decrease estimated as 0.0019 pH units per year at the Hawaii Ocean Time - series (HOT; close to the site of long - term atmospheric CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa)[12]; 0.0017 per year based on transects in the North Pacific [13]; 0.0012 per year at the Bermuda Atlantic Time - Series (BATS)[14] and 0.0017 per year at the European Station for Time - Series in the Ocean at the Canary Islands (ESTOC)[15].

I can't say I think he has been entirely correct in every statement he's made on the topic, but he shares that distinction with every other person on the planet, including myself, and his batting average is well ahead of anyone else with a similar number of plate appearances.

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