Someone get Derek some Rec Specs
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:31 am by SJK
Flying under the radar of the Yankees' great start is the fact that Derek Jeter has been significantly below par. After going 0-5 in Monday's loss to Detroit, Jeter's line now stands at a pedestrian .286/.324/.436.
The most startling aspect of Derek's game this season is that he's going up to the plate and hacking at everything. His BB% is a microscopic 4.2%. Entering Monday's game, he was swinging at 53.5% of total pitches, compared to his recorded career average of 48.1%. And what really jumps off the page is that he's swinging at 33.9% of pitches outside the strike zone, which is a HUGE jump over his recorded career average of 19.7% and also 11.7% higher than last season. Perhaps this is the reason why his line drive rate is down 8% and his groundballs are up 13% from 2009 -- he's not waiting for a good pitch to hit.
When he got rid of his 90s hi-top fade, maybe he got rid of his 1990s eyesight too.
Maybe The Captain needs to rock the Recs to rectify his plate problems.
Data source: Fangraphs
Tags: jeter
I sorta tapered off too once May estarted.
How can you pussies not hit in May? It’s child’s play.
I believe in him. I know he will improve, God willing.
Can always count on NoMaas to be the first to start slamming me.
Jeter needs to learn how to not swing at anything, like my DL’ed ass.
Lemme have a crack at him.. He’ll be fine in a week!
Hes busy with arrangements, invitations and the such from our big Hollywood wedding, he has no time to play around with you boys
If you want that big fat contract, you better start hitting the ball, and being an automatic out!!
Don’t worry Derek. They bashed me too. Look how that turned out.
Ah, it’s the ol’ “You can’t critique Derek” crowd.
…actually…he misses Melky…especially on road trips.
I’m in a slump so nomaas says I need glasses. What will they think of next? Also where did the good artists circa 2006 go? This looks like it was done on a mobile app.
I can’t over how people attack nomaas because they highlighted jeter is slumping. God forbid.
He does look odd without the hi-top fade, I think he needs to go back to it.
Not to mention, he looks like he’s returned to form when it comes to ranging to his left…
I told you that I was the best shortstop in NY!
Yeah, he sucks!
Where is Minka ?
I think even I could get DJ out.
Its not that you can’t critique Jeter. Its that he was just hitting over .300 a few days ago. Hes had a rough stretch to bring him down to .285. No big deal, everyone goes through it.
As a long time reader, NoMaas does seem to have its players they single out for criticism. For some reason Jeter is one of them.
It’s not my fault I’m a one dimensional player (batting avg) and when that isn’t working for me I get ripped on… Thanks Nomaas
Nomaas would rather give me Jeter’s at bats.
Cut him some slack. Every ball he hit against the Sox was laced. And that hit in the 8th of last night game was hit just as hard and Mags made a great play.
SJK – Tomorrow. Detroit. Batting practice. Be there. I need you to help me work with Jeter on his approach.
You idiots (not you nomaas), how can you be anything but impressed with this. Nomaas throws us an eye-opening stat about Jeter swinging at pitches outside the strike zone and make a funny picture about it. Nomaas shouldn’t allow people to hide behind an alias when they say stupid shit.
I agree on the aliases, Phil.
He is so damn sexy. muy caliente
He looka like a man
None of this is alarming as the aliased jeter defenders are interpreting. Just satirical.
Jeter isn’t “slumping”. Slumping tends to be a retrospective results based understanding from a small sample of outcomes. By highlighting a change in his approach of swinging at pitches outside the strikezone and consequently taking fewer walks, you effectively isolate the cause of seeing him less than usual on the bases. He’s still hitting decently and for extra bases, so its not really your typical slump that joe morgan would mention on sunday night baseball about mark teixeira in april. He just needs to relax and work some counts.
P.S. river ave blues covered this one in depth and most importantly noted that he was in the exact same position statistically last year where he eventually WAR’d>7 wins.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/05/derek-jeter-hitting-the-same-but-different-than-2009-28205/
Where all my NoMaas geeks at? Just wanted to thank y’all thanks for all the get well cards. Now think OPP and rub one out to me.
Get well soon Mr. Johnson. You’re needed in that crucial bench position.
I’m still the straw that stirs the drink. Not Jeter, not nobody else on this club.
here we go, surfing the Net again, something done by humans and very gullible fish