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Luis Castillo and lowest SLG/OBP ratios

Posted by Andy on January 7, 2010

A recent comment on another post about Luis Castillo made me look into this. Here are qualified seasons where the player's SLG was less than 90% of his OBP (meaning that if, for example, his OBP was .400, his SLG was at most .360.)

Rk Player Year BB XBH SLG OBP Age Tm
1 Luis Castillo 2009 69 16 .346 .387 33 NYM
2 Gregor Blanco 2008 74 19 .309 .366 24 ATL
3 Chone Figgins 2008 62 16 .318 .367 30 LAA
4 Reggie Willits 2007 69 21 .344 .391 26 LAA
5 Rickey Henderson 2000 88 20 .305 .368 41 TOT
6 Mark McLemore 2000 81 27 .316 .353 35 SEA
7 Desi Relaford 2000 75 22 .300 .351 26 TOT
8 Tom Goodwin 1998 73 18 .338 .378 29 TEX
9 Mark McLemore 1998 89 21 .317 .369 33 TEX
10 Rickey Henderson 1997 97 22 .342 .400 38 TOT
11 Otis Nixon 1996 71 17 .327 .377 37 TOR
12 Rickey Henderson 1996 125 28 .344 .410 37 SDP
13 Walt Weiss 1995 98 21 .321 .403 31 COL
14 Otis Nixon 1994 55 16 .317 .360 35 BOS
15 Rickey Henderson 1994 72 19 .365 .411 35 OAK
16 Walt Weiss 1993 79 17 .308 .367 29 FLA
17 Tony Phillips 1993 132 34 .398 .443 34 DET
18 Otis Nixon 1993 61 16 .315 .351 34 ATL
19 Willie Randolph 1991 75 17 .374 .424 36 MIL
20 Brett Butler 1991 108 20 .343 .401 34 LAD
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 1/6/2010.



Those are the 20 most recent such seasons out of 396 since 1901. Guys made it on here for different reasons. For Luis Castillo, it's because he doesn't hit for extra bases very often. For Rickey Henderson and Tony Castillo, it's because they walked so much that their OBPs were very high.

From the last 50 years, Walt Weiss' 1995 is the most extreme example. He posted a .403 OBP and a .321 SLG, a ratio of 0.797.

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    Luis Castillo
    Lowest RBI per HR ratios in history
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    K/BB ratios for young pitchers
    Lowest winning percetange, minimum 400 starts

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5 Responses to “Luis Castillo and lowest SLG/OBP ratios”

  1. whiz Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    Donie Bush did this (SLG < OBP) 13 years in a row from 1909 to 1921, all qualified seasons (his only qualified seasons, in fact). Those 13 times are most all-time. Miller Huggins and Fred Tenney are second with 11. Willie Randolph is the highest modern player with 10 (tied with 5 others).

  2. whiz Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    And Donie Bush and Miller Huggins each had 11 qualified seasons with SLG < 0.9*OBP.

  3. Stats: Luis Castillo, and K-Rod’s Change-Up Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    [...] from Baseball Reference did a quick search of their database to determine Luis Castillo’s SLG was less than 90 [...]

  4. Stats: Luis Castillo, and K-Rod’s Change-Up — NYFSBlogs Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    [...] from Baseball Reference did a quick search of their database to determine Luis Castillo’s SLG was less than 90 [...]

  5. DoubleDiamond Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    My Chris Berman-inspired nickname for him is Luis "Who's on Second" Castillo (name sounds a bit like Lou Costello - yes, I know this is very lame).

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