BABIP Leaders and Laggards

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

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

61 votes | Poll has closed

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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