A-Rod vs Angels

Posted by Andy on April 24, 2010

On the FOX telecast of the Yankees-Angels game, they just mentioned how A-Rod has 70 HR against the Angels.

Here are his split against all teams, minimum 30 games (thus eliminating most NL teams):

Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	tOPS+
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	176	175	792	683	158	224	37	3	67	154	81	159	.328	.405	.685	1.090	123
Baltimore Orioles	183	183	813	700	151	216	38	1	50	161	89	150	.309	.390	.580	.970	101
Boston Red Sox	193	190	848	730	143	206	35	2	43	121	95	163	.282	.375	.512	.887	85
Chicago White Sox	129	127	550	488	76	132	18	2	25	76	55	100	.270	.346	.469	.815	70
Cleveland Indians	111	110	497	429	74	127	28	1	28	87	57	93	.296	.383	.562	.944	96
Detroit Tigers	110	110	481	430	95	147	32	3	32	105	44	76	.342	.406	.653	1.060	118
Kansas City Royals	132	131	603	490	118	158	29	0	40	104	93	110	.322	.434	.627	1.061	120
Minnesota Twins	122	120	537	466	100	154	21	3	44	110	59	77	.330	.405	.672	1.077	120
New York Mets	37	37	169	140	27	45	4	0	10	30	26	21	.321	.426	.564	.990	107
New York Yankees	82	81	374	335	70	112	20	1	28	74	31	67	.334	.386	.651	1.037	112
Oakland Athletics	162	161	722	634	114	179	29	3	41	122	68	149	.282	.362	.532	.893	85
Seattle Mariners	105	102	455	379	81	107	16	3	31	80	60	72	.282	.391	.586	.977	102
Tampa Bay Rays	158	158	706	620	117	175	40	2	41	125	69	132	.282	.365	.552	.917	89
Texas Rangers	105	104	466	393	85	124	23	1	17	69	60	85	.316	.415	.509	.924	95
Toronto Blue Jays	177	177	785	674	140	207	41	0	50	149	91	150	.307	.400	.591	.991	105

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 4/24/2010.

So, yeah, A-Rod has worn out the Angels with by far the most home runs and his highest OPS-against. Those numbers are pretty insane--in just a bit over a season's worth of games he has 67 HR and 154 RBI. Nice.

Incidentally, the discrepancy between what was said on TV (70 HR) and the numbers above (67 HR) are the 3 homers he hit in the ALCS against them last year.

By the way, I had no idea that Eric Karros had a lisp. He's a pretty good commentator--exactly what I like from former players. He's knowledgeable about hitting, the umpires, and the managers and he's sharing small relevant nuggets as the game moves along.

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2 Responses to “A-Rod vs Angels”

Kahuna Tuna Says:
April 24th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
The current pitcher against whom A-Rod has the lowest OPS in a significant number of at-bats is today's Angels starter Joel Piñeiro. Going into today's game A-Rod had 30 AB against Piñeiro with 4 hits, including one double and one RBI, one walk and 10 strikeouts, with a sacrifice fly and a HBP. That's a .133/.188/.167 slash line (.354 OPS). So what happens? A-Rod gets a single and scores a run in three at-bats against Piñeiro, striking out once, and the rest of the Yankee lineup abuses Piñeiro for 6 ER and 10 hits in six innings.

Piñeiro had done quite well against the Yankees before today's start — 3-3, 3.22 ERA, 1.266 WHIP in 17 career appearances (nine starts), 72.2 IP, 25 BB, 55 SO. The only AL club against whom he has posted better numbers is the Tigers (7-2, 2.40 in 75.0 IP). On the other hand, over his career Piñeiro's ERA in day games is nearly a run higher than in night games (4.95 to 4.10). (All credit to B-Ref's Splits page.) So you've got the pitcher you want against a team and its superstar hitter that he handles well, but in a game setting where he generally gets poor results. Today the game setting seems to have been the controlling factor, ¿no?
Gerry Says:
April 25th, 2010 at 1:37 am
The White Sox seem to have figured out how to pitch to ARod.

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