Comments on: A-Rod vs Angels http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5590 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Gerry http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5590/comment-page-1#comment-16594 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:37:34 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5590#comment-16594 The White Sox seem to have figured out how to pitch to ARod.

]]> By: Kahuna Tuna http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5590/comment-page-1#comment-16584 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:15:51 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5590#comment-16584 The current pitcher against whom A-Rod has the lowest OPS in a significant number of at-bats is today's Angels starter Joel Piñeiro. Going into today's game A-Rod had 30 AB against Piñeiro with 4 hits, including one double and one RBI, one walk and 10 strikeouts, with a sacrifice fly and a HBP. That's a .133/.188/.167 slash line (.354 OPS). So what happens? A-Rod gets a single and scores a run in three at-bats against Piñeiro, striking out once, and the rest of the Yankee lineup abuses Piñeiro for 6 ER and 10 hits in six innings.

Piñeiro had done quite well against the Yankees before today's start — 3-3, 3.22 ERA, 1.266 WHIP in 17 career appearances (nine starts), 72.2 IP, 25 BB, 55 SO. The only AL club against whom he has posted better numbers is the Tigers (7-2, 2.40 in 75.0 IP). On the other hand, over his career Piñeiro's ERA in day games is nearly a run higher than in night games (4.95 to 4.10). (All credit to B-Ref's Splits page.) So you've got the pitcher you want against a team and its superstar hitter that he handles well, but in a game setting where he generally gets poor results. Today the game setting seems to have been the controlling factor, ¿no?

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