Saturday, July 04, 2009

Do The Math: Juan Pierre

Let's break down Juan Pierre 0.318 avg during Manny's 50-game suspension:

AB
Hits
Avg
Games 1-20
87
37
0.425
Games 21-50
127
31
0.244

So basically after his 20-game torrid start, he's hit 55 points below his career average. Here's a graph of his cumulative average during those 50 games, and since I'm not a big fan of arbitrary splits or cumulative averages, I've also included his trailing 10 game average*:

(click image to enlarge)

*The first 9 games of the trailing average trendline include games previous to Manny's suspension. The cumulative avg includes only games during Manny's suspension.

3 comments:

berkowit28 said...

In the table, I think the second item should be referring to Games 21-50, not 21-30, right?

Eric Karros said...

Yes...correction forthcoming. That's 3 mistakes in 2 days. Maybe we shouldn't have laid off those editors.

rbnlaw said...

If you want an interesting parallel, see Adrian Gonzalez.