Dr Jekyll and Mr Eyes

When Glaus exited the game last night due to watering issues, I started looking up some stats in the small amount of games played so far. Honestly, I thought he was having a hard time of it and was pulled. I mean, striking out twice with bases loaded had to be demoralizing on its own. But when I caught the quip over at PD about him having issues seeing at night in St Louis I thought I'd take a look.

Wow, to say the least. Our 3B is seriously having some trouble. This is a seriously small sample size, for obvious reasons. But even still, consider this.

Games in St Louis this year : 12
In 7 night games (24 AB) he's done
.125/.214/.125 with 3BB, and 8Ks
In 5 day games (16 AB) he's done
.375/.500/.375 with 4BB and 2Ks

Something is clearly wrong with him here at night. That's just over 30% of the games we've played so far. It really dents his numbers.

For the record, if you take out his Home Night games this year and then look at his numbers, they really clean up quite a bit.

All games - Home night games : 16
In those games he's put up .328/.426/.517 with 19 hits (11 doubles) 10BB/9K

Hardcore's infamous 40 acres fanpost noted the following line as a guideline -.279/.375/.505 for a clean up hitter. Now, while Glaus' numbers will regress some, it's clear that we may very well have our guy, if we could pinpoint what's going on with him at home at night. Food for thought.

As with all things medical, finding out how long this issue has been going on from the Cardinals is something I'd highly doubt. But clearly, the watery eyes is far from excuse, there's something there.