Derrek Lee Total Sploogefest Love-a-Thon Thread

[Internet Apex]

MV-LEE!

Before you give out any awards, remember the paragon of virtuous drug-free Christian American baseball that is Albert Pujols is putting up Barroid numbers so far this year.

I've never heard of Albert Pujols but he seems like a big, dumb, phoney mankisser.

[Kermit, B.]

MV-LEE!

Before you give out any awards, remember the paragon of virtuous drug-free Christian American baseball that is Albert Pujols is putting up Barroid numbers so far this year.

I've never heard of Albert Pujols but he seems like a big, dumb, phoney mankisser.

I sure wish he would die.

[Internet Apex]

MV-LEE!

Before you give out any awards, remember the paragon of virtuous drug-free Christian American baseball that is Albert Pujols is putting up Barroid numbers so far this year.

I've never heard of Albert Pujols but he seems like a big, dumb, phoney mankisser.

I sure wish he would get busted for HgH and then die.

THI'd.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

This is why we have sploogefest threads.

[Saul Goodman]

Bump.  D-Lee, baby.

[air2300]

That was great.  Douchebag marlin fan sitting next to me kept yelling bartman and 1908 to me.  There was nothing better than watching this dude sit down and get quiet.   

[Quality Start Machine]

That was great.  Douchebag marlin fan sitting next to me kept yelling bartman and 1908 to me.  There was nothing better than watching this dude sit down and get quiet.   

You didn't yell "HEE SEOP CHOI!" at him?

FAIL.

[Shooter]

86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

[CubFaninHydePark]

86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

Bradley, sure...but Theroit and Fukudome have been on base enough to give him chances.

[Shooter]

86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

Bradley, sure...but Theroit and Fukudome have been on base enough to give him chances.

And Soriano?

[CT III]

86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

Bradley, sure...but Theroit and Fukudome have been on base enough to give him chances.

Even my Bradley HATE can't stand for such wrongness, the guy's got a .387 OBP.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

Bradley, sure...but Theroit and Fukudome have been on base enough to give him chances.

Even my Bradley HATE can't stand for such wrongness, the guy's got a .387 OBP.

Mind-bottling wrongness.

Your 2009 Cubs in OBP (top 20)...

                  OBP    PA
Milton Bradley   .393   407
Aramis Ramirez   .389   229
Kosuke Fukudome  .386   461
Sam Fuld         .377    69
Derrek Lee       .376   432
Tom Gorzelanny   .375     9
Jeff Baker       .369   103
Jake Fox         .345   177
Ryan Theriot     .342   545
Bobby Scales     .333    66
Reed Johnson     .327   166
Koyie Hill       .326   220
Geovany Soto     .322   307
Alfonso Soriano  .305   515
Andres Blanco    .297   106
Mike Fontenot    .294   364
Sean Marshall    .286    15
Micah Hoffpauir  .280   193
Joey Gathright   .267    15
Carlos Zambrano  .259    54

Average NL OBP this season is .332

[ChuckD]

86 RBIs with various awful, awful hitters batting ahead of him all season.

Bradley, sure...but Theroit and Fukudome have been on base enough to give him chances.

Even my Bradley HATE can't stand for such wrongness, the guy's got a .387 OBP.

Mind-bottling wrongness.

Your 2009 Cubs in OBP (top 20)...

                   OBP    PA
Milton Bradley   .393   407
Aramis Ramirez   .389   229
Kosuke Fukudome  .386   461
Sam Fuld         .377    69
Derrek Lee       .376   432
Tom Gorzelanny   .375     9
Jeff Baker       .369   103
Jake Fox         .345   177
Ryan Theriot     .342   545
Bobby Scales     .333    66
Reed Johnson     .327   166
Koyie Hill       .326   220
Geovany Soto     .322   307
Alfonso Soriano  .305   515
Andres Blanco    .297   106
Mike Fontenot    .294   364
Sean Marshall    .286    15
Micah Hoffpauir  .280   193
Joey Gathright   .267    15
Carlos Zambrano  .259    54

Average NL OBP this season is .332

.262/11/35

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

Batting order splits say that wrongness is even more wronger...

Cubs           OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .326   603
Batting 2nd   .356   586
Total         .337  1189

NL             OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .334  9663
Batting 2nd   .343  9427
Total         .335 19090

Theriot        OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .314   103
Batting 2nd   .337   374
Total         .325   477

Soriano        OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .295   332

Fukudome       OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .437   104
Batting 2nd   .365    85
Total         .402   189

Bradley        OBP    PA
Batting 2nd   .430    80

Johnson        OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .222    36
Batting 2nd   .500     2
Total         .237    38

Fuld           OBP    PA
Batting 1st   .545    22
Batting 2nd   .545    11
Total         .545    33

The Cubs have basically put up a league average on base rate at the top of the order this season.

Theriot and Soriano have both been below average up there (Soriano, of course, significantly below)—while accounting for over half of the PAs—with Fukudome and Bradley picking up much of the slack.

Lee's splits for context...

               PA    H   HR  RBI GDP    BA   OBP   SLG   OPS

Batting 3rd   280   66   12   51   5  .268  .346  .504  .850
Batting 4th   208   60   13   36   2  .333  .418  .611 1.029

Bases Empty   236   62   15   15   0  .295  .373  .571  .944
Men On        256   65   10   72   7  .295  .379  .523  .902
RISP          140   36    9   68   4  .310  .400  .647 1.047

April/March    83   14    1   10   0  .189  .253  .284  .537
May            77   21    4    9   1  .313  .403  .552  .955
June          115   33    6   20   1  .333  .417  .556  .973
July          107   28    9   27   2  .295  .364  .663 1.028
August        110   31    5   21   3  .326  .418  .621 1.039

[Philberto]

That just tells me what I already know.. Fuku and Bradley at the top of the order.