Wieters Weird Season

[TuckerBlair89]

Matt Wieters has been through a weird season.

He started out fairly well in April with a .279/.364/.574 batting line
Then he had the abysmal May where he hit .188/.282/.323
Then he is scorching hot in June at .367/.415/.531

Some other weird things:

Wieters has some weird BABIP splits. Against LHP his BABIP is .426. Against RHP his BABIP is .228.I guess they even out but still a huge difference between the two. Even more weird is that 7 of his HR are against RHP. Maybe that is a reason the BABIP is low (Hr do not count as a ball in play).

However, last season he had roughly the same BABIP splits, yet he hit more HR against RHP (13 vs 9).
I just thought it was interesting and a little different from your usual player.

I'd love to see some research on BABIP and Splits for switch hitters.


Lastly, he has a lot more errors this season, and mostly ALL on throwing. I'm not really sure what the deal is, but I think it mostly has to do with bad luck.I don't see anything different in what he is doing in his release. Only 2 of them were surefire errors in my opinion.

[birdwatcher55]

That GIDP in the third killed us last night. A well placed hit in that situation and we would have likely coasted

[TuckerBlair89]

That GIDP in the third killed us last night. A well placed hit in that situation and we would have likely coasted

I couldn't catch the game last night.
He hits into a lot of them though. One, he is very slow. Two, he hits a ton of ground balls. I think we should just get used to that aspect. He's had a ton of big hits recently too though.

[Matt P]

Started off hot, then had a horrific slump, and has been on fire since breaking out of it.

Seems like he is just streaky.