Prosperdick said:

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Nice clean inning!

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Mathguy64 said:

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Can't drive in runs when no one is on base in front of you or when they are, you get walked.

Part of this is a function of hitting in the 2 hole. He gets more ABs (marginally) but he will see fewer RISP. Esock on the other hand gets the benefit of Yordan being on in front of him. He's had 175 PA and 149 AB with RISP. Walker is at 167 and 152.

Yordan by the way has had 139 PA with RISP and only 86 ABs. In that situation He's got a SLG of .712 in those 86 ABs and an OPS of 1.282. If you wonder why he's getting 4 fingers, it's just that simple. Alonso has a SLG of .513 and an OPS of .885. Junior is .526 and .912.

Yordan has also been much more efficient in his limited ABs. He's got 55 RBI in his 86 ABs while Junior has just 57 in his 135 AB. Pete has 69 RBI in his 139 AB. And nobody is holding 4 fingers up for Pete. He's only got 5 IBB with RISP. The RBI deal is simple math. Pete is getting a ton of chances with RISP batting mostly in the 3 and 4 holes and teams are letting him swing. So is Junior. Yordan isn't getting the chances mostly due to his teammates not getting on in front of him and partly because opposing managers were holding up 4 fingers a lot in the 2H of the season.

Prorated out to the same ABs, Yordan would have about 80 RBI with RISP with the same chances.

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linkdude said:

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Good job to be alert on the relay, Tuve!

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