Stats Corner: Looking At Garret Anderson

Posted by exposrip in Baseball, Stats Corner on 06 27th, 2009 | one response

I caught the last inning of the Braves/Red Sox game today. De Sawx won 1-zippo.

But I don’t care about that so much. What interested me is a comment made by Thom Brennanananman about Garret Anderson. Something to the effect of “he’s been one of the best hitters in all of baseball over the last 15 years”.

I was bored and decided to check out Garret’s shtatishtics.

In a career mostly played in Anaheim with the Angels (he’s now with Atlanta), he’s been a .296 hitter. He’s slugged .467 with an OBP of . 327. He has 275 career HRs.

They’re alright I guess. But the “among the best”?

Really?

Shoot, his OPS is a very average .793.




One Response to “Stats Corner: Looking At Garret Anderson”

  1. Ron Mix says:
    June 28, 2009 at 10:57 am

    Maybe you should. Over the past 15 years, since the start of the 1995 season, only two players in all of baseball have more hits than Anderson: Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. During that same time frame, Garret leads all of baseball with 500 doubles. Could be argued that he is one of the best hitters in all of baseball

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