2011 by the Numbers: Hitting

It’s time for my annual run down of the 2011 baseball season set.  I call it “By the Numbers”.  Today, I’ll start with hitting.

Overall, I’ve found that there weren’t many players with “monster” numbers with either positive or negative stats.  Things were pretty tempered.   That’s not necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion.

Let’s get started.

Here are those players with five extra base hit numbers (0-6).

Pitcher Mark Worrell was the only player with more than two first column 1s on his card.  He accomplished that by hitting one homer in two plate appearances.  Here are all the players in 2011 who have two 1s on their card.

Here’s another long list.  It’s every player who has more than ten hit numbers.  We’re talking all hit numbers from 1 through 11.  Essentially, everything that gets by a D pitcher.

Let’s look at speed for a bit.  Only five players received three or more 11s in the first column.  Twenty-three more received two 11s.

You saw pretty much the same players when I sorted on total speed numbers (10s and 11s) in the first column.

Each of these players will get a free pass six times on their card.  A total of 38 players have five 14s.

Two players received a double dose of the hit by pitch.

With three 31s each, these are your hit and run guys.

Automatic outs.  You’ll even have trouble bunting with these guys.  Each of these players have a grand total of twenty-three 13s on their card.

Yikes! Thirdbaseman James Darnell who hit into six DPs in 52 PA, will receive fourteen 24s on his card.

(A side note:  I did a quick double take as I had temporarily forgotten I would be seeing Kyle Hudson in this APBA set.  See, I knew Hudson when he played for the University of Illinois and wrote quite a lot about him on another blog of mine.  Good to see him make it to the MLB (and in the APBA realm).  My guess is in the future, you will see him in this column but instead, in the Most 11s category and not the Most 24s.)

Thanks to Mike Bunch for help in getting me the numbers for this article.