BABIP Leaders and Laggards

by faketeams on May 25, 2008 5:01 PM EDT in Baseball Comment 1 comment

The Top 10 leaders and laggards in BABIP for the coming week are below. Remember leading or lagging in BABIP are contrarian indicators. These are pitchers due for a fall (leading) or for improvement (lagging). I have used a screen of at least three starts to compile these Top 10s. The last column indicates whether the pitcher starts on Monday(M) or Tuesday (T). Under a seven-game week, pitchers starting on either day would be in line for two starts during the week.

Low BABIP. Sit?:

RANK	NAME	TEAM	BABIP	M/T?
1	Greg Reynolds	COL	0.167	N
2	Shaun Marcum	TOR	0.173	M
3	Gavin Floyd	CHA	0.176	N
4	Claudio Vargas	NYN	0.192	N
5	Armando Galarraga	DET	0.205	N
6	Shawn Estes	SDN	0.217	N
7	Ryan Dempster	CHN	0.218	M
8	Darrell Rasner	NYA	0.218	M
9	Tim Redding	WAS	0.226	N
10	Scott Olsen	FLO	0.228	N

High BABIP. Start?:

RANK	NAME	TEAM	BABIP	M/T?
1	Nick Adenhart	ANA	0.391	N
2	Bronson Arroyo	CIN	0.383	N
3	Andrew Miller	FLO	0.382	T
4	Jo-Jo Reyes	ATL	0.38	N
5	Miguel Batista	SEA	0.379	T
6	Matt Belisle	CIN	0.374	N
7	Garrett Olson	BAL	0.372	M
8	Jorge De La Rosa	COL	0.367	M
9	Chris Sampson	HOU	0.358	N
10	Jarrod Washburn	SEA	0.357	N

Poll

Which of the laggards are you most comfortable starting?

Andrew Miller

23 votes

Bronson Arroyo

18 votes

Garrett Olson

11 votes

Jarrod Washburn

2 votes

None. BABIP Laggards lag because they are not good pitchers.

7 votes

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Comments

I Hope

No one used De La Rosa (you know, apart from Clint Hurdle) at all with today’s pathetic performance. He might be the first pitcher ever to approach a BABIP of above 1.000.

And yes, I know how BABIP works. It was THAT BAD.

Insert clever and witty remark slash pun here!

by ES46NE10 on May 26, 2008 11:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs