Walking Off with Marco Part II
Posted by Raphy on August 8, 2009
Last week Andy wrote about Marco Scutaro's large number of walk-off plate appearances.:
"Can you believe that Scutaro has already been responsible for NINE walk-off wins? That’s more than most players get in their entire careers, much less below-average middle infielders."
Andy is an expert when it comes to walk-offs. He has written about them extensively and has a good feel for when something unusual happens. I however, am a novice and felt compelled to run the numbers.
Scutaro began playing full time in 2004. That same season he collected had first walk-off win. As Andy mentioned Scutaro has amassed 9 walk-off wins playing either 2nd base or shortstop. Here are the leaders since 2004 in walk-off wins among middle infielders (through Friday's games).
| Marco Scutaro | 9 |
| Orlando Cabrera | 8 |
| Placido Polanco | 7 |
| Jose Lopez | 6 |
| Juan Uribe | 6 |
| Mark Loretta | 6 |
| Bobby Crosby | 5 |
| Carlos Guillen | 5 |
| David Eckstein | 5 |
| Michael Young | 5 |
| Miguel Tejada | 5 |
| Orlando Hudson | 5 |
| Yuniesky Betancou | 5 |
As you can see, the numbers confirm Andy's statement. When it comes to walking away with a win, there is no one up the middle who has done it better than Marco.
August 9th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Could you post the active lead and all-time lead for most walk-off plate appearances? Thanks.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Wow that's two brown-nosing posts in a row, Raphy...thanks!
August 10th, 2009 at 11:48 am
That all-time lead coming anytime soon?
August 10th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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August 11th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
THAT ALL-TIME LEAD COMING ANYTIME SOON!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
August 11th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
If you're so desperate to know, its not that complicated to figure out. All you need is a computer (with a PI subscription and a good spreadsheet program (or a basic programming language if you're so inclined)) and some time.
Step 1: Go to http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/ and select "Team Batting Event Finder"
Step 2: (This step is to avoid PI hang time) Where it says select team click on the drop down menu and select Angels and click on "Get Report".
Step 3: Click on "game-ending" and "go ahead". Change the search parameters to "1954", "All Teams" and "Plate Appearances". Then click "Get Report".
Step 4: When you get your results there will be a list of all walk-off game-winning plate appearances for 1954. Select them all and copy them all.
Step 5: Paste the list into a spreadsheet.
Step 6: repeat for all years 1954-2009.
When you complete step 6 save your spreadsheet and let me know. I'll instruct you from there.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Imashark, I would have thought youd've given up posting here after the many, many comments you've posted that have been filtered out by the blog software.