Reyes splits by catcher

by john vb on Jul 4, 2007 5:58 PM EDT

I know it's already decided that we probably won't see Reyes again until September, but I was going over Anthony's splits at Baseball-Reference yesterday and found something interesting. He seemed to have a pretty significant catcher split (.238/.329/.377 vs .275/.336/.532). I didn't even realize they had those splits. Baseball-Reference gets better every day! Anyway, I did some more figuring on my own, and here's what I came up with...

G IP AB H 2B 3B HR R ER BB SO DP ERA
Bennett 6 32 122 29 8 0 3 21 20 13 27 0 5.63
Molina 5 28.1 109 30 9 2 5 21 21 10 18 3 6.64

Pit Str Str% P/IP H/9 K/9 AVG OBP SLG
Bennett 546 346 .634 17.06 8.16 8.38 .238 .329 .377
Molina 452 297 .657 15.95 9.53 5.77 .275 .336 .532

Unfortunately I don't really know what to make of all that. With Bennett, he allows fewer hits, gets way more K's, holds slugging down by 155 points, and yet, his ERA only shows a 1.01 improvement. Perhaps whoever is charting Anthony's pitches could do a comparison?

For whatever it's worth, his one start with Stinett (6/22) looks more like a Molina start than a Bennett start

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One thing stands out...

His pitch counts with Bennett are a little higher, 3.96 per plate appearance, vs 3.70 with Yadi. You can also see this reflected in the percentage of strikes thrown. So in addition to getting more strikeouts, he's also giving up more walks.

So could it be that Yadier does a better job of framing his pitches than Bennett? Or might it be that Yadier is centering his glove over the plate, following the dictum of "pitching to contact", whereas the veteran Bennett is protecting his pitcher more often by setting up on the corners.

by taiko on Jul 4, 2007 7:20 PM EDT reply actions

I had wondered about this

He usually looked better with Bennett catching to me. Bennett seemed more likely to call for a high fastball and go for the strikeout where Molina wanted everything low.

On the other hand a 5.63 ERA still isn't getting it done.

Anyone done a similar breakdown for our other pitchers?

by DriverZn on Jul 4, 2007 10:44 PM EDT reply actions