Somehow the Phillies manager did not notice Pablo Sandoval's .332/.386/.572/.958 batting line or his 13 HR and 48 RBI, which basically is a pace for roughly 25 HR and 100 RBI, and doesn't even account for the fact that he didn't do much in the month of April, he has done most of this in May and June, particularly June for HR.
So Kung Fu Panda is left to beg for an All-Star spot via the MLB Final Spot voting, against 4 other worth players, but obviously I don't think are as worthy as Pablo: Shane Victorino, the Flying Hawaiian, Matt Kemp, Mark Reynolds, and Cristian Guzman. He currently has a slim lead after a day of voting and the voting ends on Thursday. Vote for Pablo here. I have been putting in about 25 votes per day. There does not appear to be a limit on the site to the number of times you vote, but it gets a bit monotonous after a while, so 25-30 votes appear to be my physical/mental limit.
Hot Streak/Cold Streak
One of my favorite toys, er, tool has been Baseball-Reference.com, and one thing I like to play with recently is their game logs stats, where I can add up stats over a stretch of games pretty easily. A new feature or post I'm thinking of doing is a "Hot Streak/Cold Streak" where for certain players I will present their current hottest streak and coldest streak. I don't know how many times I go through a Giants comment area and there would be people saying that a player is lousy because his overall numbers weren't that good, but if they looked closer, they would have seen that he has actually been pretty hot recently, but was just weighed down (or buoyed up) by that first month of greatness/suckness.
And this is all relative to how good or bad he is doing. Their hot might not be that hot, or their cold could be someone else's hunka-hunka burning inferno.
Here is Panda's current Hot Streak/Cold Streak:
Hot: since June 4th, .382/.452/.755/1.207 with 10 HR in 110 AB, 15 BB, 20 SO, 19 runs, 27 RBI
Cold: since June 29th, .259/.344/.556/.899 with 2 HR in 27 AB, 4 BB, 6 SO, 5 runs, 10 RBI
Even when he's cold he's hot. He has been striking out more then what he usually did during this professional career, but not outrageously so. 15% is the key limit, a batter wants to keep it below that, as most players who hit well can limit the number of strikeouts he gets. He is at 18% for the hot streak, 22% for the cold streak. And he has started taking walks, he used to not get that much, but now he is piling them up, relatively, it is vastly improved to being where good hitters are, in terms of BB/SO ratio.
your article title stole my idea. I've been looking for a place to make PANDA-MONIUM shirts for almost a month now. He's a beast
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Pablo did not win the vote. The Flying Hawaiian did, though Pablo came in second, reportedly (they did not release any results).
ReplyDeleteThere is still the chance that the NL manager can correct this oversight. There are two players on the All-Star roster who are injured and will need to be replaced. Manuel could select Pablo and put him on the team, but I'll bet that he'll use this opportunity to add some more Phillies to the team.