Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Two months is not a representative sample size. If it was, Chris Shelton would be Babe Ruth and not a scrub, and Mike Morse would have been the AL MVP last year.
If he was just swinging and missing, he wouldn't be drawing more walks.
He's also not flying out on the infield at a ruinous rate. If he was, his IFF% would correlate with poor hitting months, and it isn't there. He hit more IFFs in May than September and posted his second best month of offensive production for the entire year.
In August Gordon tore the cover off the ball. He saw 475 pitches, of which, 293 were strikes, for a 61.6% strike rate. And he killed the ball that month.
In September Gordon saw 445 pitches, of which, 256 were strikes, for a 57.5% strike percentage.
That indicates that he was actually more selective in September.
The data just doesn't support your conclusion.
|
Not if he's swinging and missing good pitches. I said he was still being selective. Two months is not insignificant. He's striking out more and getting on base less. You can analyze it all you want but that's the bottom line and over a two-month period, it is worth being concerned about.
Are you trying to argue he's been just as good the last two months as he was prior? You're just saying he's been unlucky?