Every 15 games or so we’ll take a look at the team’s pitching and batting stats. I’ll sort the tables by WAR, as I’m a big fan of it, but of course for these early tables it has a little less meaning, particularly on the pitching front. I’ll probably throw in a fielding table in future too, because I’m nice.
Batting
Having started the season cold, a few superb games from superstar signing Willie Perez have put him up among the team’s top performers, with an average of .333 and OPS of 1.025, as well as a team leading 5 home-runs and 9 RBIs. It’s Rutz who comes out on top so far though with a very impressive .352 average and 1.017 OPS in 54 at bats. He’s notched up 3 home runs and 6 RBIs. Adam Koehler also deserves a mention here, though his high WAR is more related to his defensive ability than his offensive statistics, as you can see, he has still hit 3 home-runs and batted in 6 RBIs.
On the less impressive side of things, last year’s superstar Abdul-Karim bin Jameel has made a poor start, racking up an awful batting average of .180, and an OPS of .521. He has hit 7 RBIs, though that seems more a function of luck than anything else given his other statistics. Dam De has been the team’s worst fielder so far, with a whooping 11 errors in 15 games, and his batting hasn’t helped either, meaning he is a rather spectacularly bad -0.5 WAR at this stage of the season. We’ll see how long he lasts if this performance level continues.
Pitching
Ok, I forgot to put FIP as one of the listed stats, I will make sure I do this in future, as it gives am much better picture as to why Marinello’s WAR is higher than anyone else’s, even though he has a high ERA. Essentially he’s been particularly let down by some dodgy fielding. I’m not going to go into this table massively at this point, as the sample sizes are very small (only a few appearances for most), but it does paint a fairly good picture of our pitching so far. Overall it’s a bit better than I was expecting at the start of the season. I’m a big fan of a pitcher weighted roster, which isn’t exactly the way the Hares have gone in the past (or now), but this little table does at least give me some confidence that we’ll not be giving up 10 runs a game, though Guzman is threatening to do that in his starts so far.