Small Sample Size: Hitters Edition
Posted on April 20th, 2011 by Jeff in Memphis Redbirds, Palm Beach Cardinals, Quad Cities River Bandits, Springfield CardinalsLet’s take a look at the early season stats for the hitters in the Cardinals system to see who is off to a hot start.
Memphis:
- Sugar Shane Robinson was hitting 400/435/600 before his outfield collision and orbital bone injury.
- Mark Hamilton’s 902 OPS earned himself a call up to St. Louis. He also lead the team with .469 OBP.
- Adron Chambers is next in OBP with .439.
Springfield:
- Ryan Jackson’s hot start is much heralded and he’s hitting 431/464/569. Those numbers should come down as the season progresses (.489 BABIP for one), but it is a great start as he’s hitting 35% line drives.
- Alex Castellanos leads the team with 3 HRs and .571 SLG.
- Aaron Luna’s .410 OBP got himself promoted to Memphis.
Palm Beach:
- Audry Perez leads the team in OPS with a 400/417/543 slash line, but he’s been getting a bit lucky with 10% line drives and an astronomical .448 BABIP.
- Zack Cox so far has a wOBA of .342, but if you adjust for park and batted ball rates that wOBA (wOBAr) jumps to .399.
- Alan Ahmady leads the team with a .426 OBP.
Quad Cities:
- In 12 at-bats, Oscar Taveras leads the team with 1.881 OPS. (I told you they were small sample sizes.)
- Cody Stanley is slashing 296/406/593 with hitting only 4% line drives.
- Jrod Part Deux has 8 walks so far for an OBP of .436.
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Taveras’ line is sick!
Has anyone heard what’s going on with him or how long he is expected to be out? Zach Cox is what he is put our position player with the highest ceiling is Taveras and if anyone wants to debate that…. let’s go! (M Adams is a close 2nd)
I’ll bite. Cox=punch and Judy hitter.
Oh, c’mon. . .I’m only kidding :)
Last I heard, Taveras was going to be our 2-4 weeks depending on how it healed.
Taveras out at least 2 weeks maybe more….
Oscar is a monster!
I’m a huge fan of Oscar T. (had him in the 50-60 range among all prospects before the season), but even if he becomes a consistent .900 OPS guy in the majors, I think fellow teenager Anthony Garcia *might* have even *more* upside—provided he remains at catcher.
Specifically, if Garcia is eventually an average defensive backstop, and hits, say, .280/.360/.470 on a regular basis, there’s a TON of value there.
I have no idea whether Anthony is headed to Johnson City or Batavia, but I’m hoping it’s the latter, because based on his GCL performance last year he’s probably too good for rookieball pitchers already.
I say Garcia goes wherever he can best succeed. He didn’t catch last year so hopefully he’s back at it this year.