Lots of people - my dad included - clammoring for Jhonny Peralta’s head because he’s playing well in the second half, like he always does, after a sub-par first half.
But how much better is he really doing?
Peralta’s batting average in the first “half” of the season, everything prior to the all-star break, was .257 or 78 hits in 303 at bats. This was across 79 games.
So far, since the break, he’s hitting .333 or 30 hits in 90 at bats.
If Peralta were to have hit .333 in the first half, he would’ve needed to get 23 more hits, which sounds like a pretty substanial amount.
Over the course of the season, Peralta is average 3.88 at bats per game. Based on this average, Peralta would have needed to get one extra hit every 13.32 at bats in order to hit .333 over the first 79 games.
That’s one extra hit every 3.43 games.
That, my friends, doesn’t sound like a whole lot - especially when we’re talking about a batting average of leap of 76 points.
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