Paraphrasing the beacon of baseball information known as Joe Buck during Game 1 of the 2007 World Series:
“Helton’s road numbers have always been just as good as his home numbers.”
From FOX Sports, the folks currently paying Mr. Buck:
H/R AVG/OBP/SLG
Home .374/.468/.692
Road .297/.398/.518
My complaint is that this information isn’t exactly buried somewhere in the dark corners of the internet. I’ve said plenty of wrong things in my life, but I’ve usually fessed up to them. I doubt there’s a retraction coming here.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Pete Toms // Oct 25, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I heard Buck say that, he and McCarver were talking about the impact of the humidor and cited Helton as an example ( if I remember correctly, I could’ve been 1/2 asleep ).
Anyway, I was surprised at the statement but asuumed it was correct. After all, it is the World Series, it is FOX, he is Joe Buck.
Nice to know that I was right and they were wrong.
2 MGL // Oct 25, 2007 at 2:43 pm
If there were a mandatory retraction on that, every commentator, and I mean EVERY one (well, not every one), would be doing NOTHING but retracting all of the stupid and factually innaccurate things they say over and over and over and over again…
3 MGL // Oct 25, 2007 at 2:58 pm
And I don’t see our blog (http://insidethebook.com/ee/) linked to anwhere on your site!
4 Voros // Oct 25, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I didn’t realize there was a blog there. I linked to the book in one of my posts and Tango’s site is there somewhere.
I’ll fix it forthwith Sir Mitchell. Glad to see you here. Every intelligent person here greatly increases the base IQ of the blog.
5 Dave // Oct 26, 2007 at 6:49 am
Add two:
Last night, McCarver was talking about Manny batting with two strikes, and how he was better than virtually anyone.
Manny has a career .178 BA with a 0-2 count, per the splits at bbref.com. With two strikes, he has a .227 BA.
In comparison, Albert Pujols has a .221 BA with a 0-2 count, and a .270 BA with two strikes.
During game one, McCarver called Ortiz the best clutch hitter in the last 30 years.
Ortiz
RISP overall, .923 OPS
2 outs, RISP, .921 OPS
Late & Close, .974 OPS
Manny
RISP overall, 1.056 OPS
2 outs, RISP, 1.065 OPS
Late & Close, .898 OPS
For two of the three metrics, Ortiz isn’t even the best player on his team, much less the last 30 years.
And again, for comparison:
Pujols
RISP overall, 1.137 OPS
2 outs, RISP, 1.154 OPS
Late & Close, 1.056 OPS
Best in baseball for the last 30 years? No. Most hyped as a clutch hitter? Yes.
Dave
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