Random Juan Pierre thoughts
Posted by Andy on May 6, 2011
I was just looking at Juan Pierre's player page after Neil mentioned a recent discussion about the guy on another thread.
Some random thoughts:
- As of today he has exactly 397 walks and 397 strikeouts in his career
- It's amazing that he led the NL in hits in 2006 but also had an 82 OPS+! That's what you get when you bat leadoff and rarely walk.
- Hence leading the league in AB 3 different times.
- He played every single same from 2003 through 2007. Wow.
- How does such a fast guy ground into 77 double plays, especially when batting leadoff? (You can't lead off the game with a GIDP...)
- Led the league (or all of MLB) in caught stealing 6 times, plus leading MLB so far in 2011.
- Hit by pitch might be saving his career OBP. He's gotten on base at a .346 clip...certainly not great but not horrible. His low walk total really hurts him, but he's got 89 times hit by pitch in his career, which really helps a lot.
- At the moment, he has 911 career runs scored. 9-1-1 indeed.
May 11th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Great point JB
May 13th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Well I would like to respond, but it appears Neil has cried a river and I won't be allowed to post anymore.
May 13th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Nobody "cried a river" and nobody was intentionally blocked from commenting. We had a server error that apparently lost 2 comments in the last several hours. I'll try to recover them in WordPress; I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
May 13th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Np, I manually approved those two comments roughly an hour ago so they should be posted. One from Timmy and one from Ken.
May 13th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Jack Cust is a marginal player, and Rickey Weeks is a bad player. Doc Cramer was a very good player, that did benefit from WWII as he was 36 in 1942 and so played several more years of slap-hitting and walking. Doc had 345 K's in 20 years, 15 as a full time starter. Doc was not the base stealing threat that Pierre is though.