Comments on: Ian Stewart and Rockies avoid arbitration with one-year deal

By: poseidonsfist

poseidonsfist — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:41:14 +0000

Kind of. I never said that he was a great hitter. He’s pretty below average to this point as an MLB starting third baseman. It just seems very weird to single out his career road average as an example of his weakness when he’s just as mediocre at Coors as he is on the road. What it comes down to is:

What’s the point of pointing out a split if it there actually is no split? The wording of this article would lead readers to believe Stewart is just another Rockies hitter whose stats are brought down by an inability to hit away from Coors. Which is not true.

By: Jeremiah Graves

Jeremiah Graves — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:03:18 +0000

…so your defense of Stewart is that he’s not a “poor road hitter,” but rather that he’s simply a “poor hitter.”

Huh.

Rockies fans are weird.

By: poseidonsfist

poseidonsfist — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:27:13 +0000

I thought that might be the case, but still, for his career, he’s just .251 at home. And .795/.770 home/away OPS. That’s not very much.

Expand it to just the two years he was a starter, and he’s a .243 hitter at home and .241 on the road. .777 OPS at home, .767 OPS on the road. You chose to highlight that he has hit “only .239 away from Coors” which directly implies he’s a poor road hitter. And he’s not. That’s why it’s misleading. He’s one of the best Rockies maintaining his hitting on the road. His issue is that he’s just not a high average hitter, period, not that he’s a poor road hitter.

By: Aaron Gleeman

Aaron Gleeman — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:04:47 +0000

Also, where did that .239 number come from?

Stewart has hit .239 away from Coors Field for his entire career. So, you know, maybe not so “completely misleading and borderline untrue.”

By: poseidonsfist

poseidonsfist — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:54:57 +0000

I realize that it is a very safe default to write “he only hit .XXX away from Coors” as an implied weakness in these types of articles, but in this case, it’s completely misleading and borderline untrue.

In 2009, he hit .235 away from Coors, but that was BETTER than his .221 at home. In 2010, he was one of the few Rockies with a BETTER OPS on the road, almost fifty points better, and 12 of his 18 home runs came away from Coors. In fact, he pretty much has a zero OPS and average home/road split the last two years, so this shouldn’t even be mentioned with Stewart.

Also, where did that .239 number come from? He hit .248 on the road in 2010 and .235 in 2009…