VT Baseball Player In-Conference Hitting & Pitching Visuals…
With 9 games of ACC play under our belts, I thought it would be interesting to see where are hitters and pitchers stack up in comparison to ACC averages for SLG/OBP for hitters and ERA/WHIP for pitchers.
The visuals below provide a view of the comparisons with the red lines representing the ACC in-conference averages for each metric. Based on the information, here are a few observations.
Hitting (among hitters with at least 10 at-bats in conference play)
• Sam Tackett is #1 in conference play in both SLG and OBP. Jackson Cherry isn’t too far behind him in OBP while also showing good SLG (.750).
• The only other hitters who are above ACC average in both SLG and OBP are Henry Cooke, Ben Watson and Hudson Lutterman.
• Jared Davis is above average in SLG but below average in OBP while Cam Pittman is the opposite.
• We have four hitters that are below average in both categories: Clay Grady, David McCann, Garrett Michel, David Lewis with Lewis at the bottom in both SLG and OBP.
Pitching (among pitchers with at least 1 inning in conference play)
• We have only two pitchers who are better than average in both ERA and WHIP: Brett Renfrow, Andrew Sentlinger.
• Cameron LeJeune has a worse than average ERA but better than average WHIP while Preston Crowl is the opposite.
• Jake Marciano and Luke Craytor are slightly worse than average in both ERA and WHIP with Mathieu Curtis being a little worse in ERA.
• Our lowest performing pitchers in-conference have been Grant Manning, Logan Eisenreich, Luke Jackman and Jacob Exum
3 Replies
1y
Not too optimistic it will turnaround as league play gets more difficult
(In response to this post by QCP)
1y
both of them were pretty effective in ACC play last year (Exum with a 3.68 ERA in 14.2 innings; Manning with a 5.40 ERA in 23.1 innings) so they have both previously been viable weekend arms. Manning has been slightly better after struggling as a starter this year so hopefully he can stay in a relief role and get more quality appearances.
Exum has been a head-scratcher. He's been really good for two years but has struggled with his command this year and generally been ineffective. I noticed he asked for someone on the staff to trim his fingernail during the game so not sure if maybe he has been dealing with a hand issue.
In any case, if they can round into form, that would be a big boost for our bullpen.
(In response to this post by hokiepaul)