Mike Young hits too many line drives
I was looking over hardball times' story about Jose Reyes' ground ball tendencies http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/should-jose-reyes-hit-more-groundballs /] or lack there of and hit the link at the bottom to League Leaders for fewest infield flies. A stat with Mike Young as the leader. So I opened his page and looked at his BIP stats.
Year LD% GB% IF/F HR/F
2004 24.8% 37.4% N/A 8.6%
2005 25.5% 45.3% 10.1% 12.7%
2006 24.9% 48.1% 3.7% 7.9%
2007 27.2% 48.4% 1.5% 6.8%
So his line drives were up, ground balls were similar and infield flies and homers were down. I'm not sure what really explains this but its almost as if he wasn't trying to hit home runs because he wasn't trying to get under the ball hence his outrageously low IF/F number
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I've been saying that for a while
by badradiorules on Dec 13, 2007 1:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
no such thing
I predict more doubles this year.
by SteveP on Dec 13, 2007 1:30 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Amen
Plus line drives mean he is hitting the ball right on the button. Thats a sign of an amazing hitter.
by Steven on Dec 13, 2007 5:31 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
question
or someone do a diary on it?
by knockoutking24 on Dec 13, 2007 1:32 PM CST reply actions 0 recs



















