Carlos Ruiz Hurts
Aug 06, 2008 in Phillies
as we have all witnessed this year, carlos ruiz is not exactly a great hitter. he’s hitting 60 points lower than chris coste, has 6 less rbi’s in 30 less at bats, and is generally a double play waiting to happen. he’s probably one of many reasons that jimmy rollins has fewer rbi’s than pedro feliz. but what has it really meant to the phils?
one half decent stat might be winning percentage of games with ruiz vs. games with costs. it ain’t perfect by any stretch. numbers are from before last night’s crime against baseball quality so it actually got worse for “chooch” after that horseshit. here you go:
phils win % is 60%
coste’s win % is 63.1%
ruiz’s win % is 54.7%
following my flawed logic, we’d have 70 wins or so instead of 61 if coste started every game (or if carlos sucked less).
so you might say, should we put lou marson in once he gets back from beijing? i’m torn because it takes time to learn the staff and there’s not a lot of time left. however, he’s my first september call up. he’s got a veteran staff to work with (except brett myers who i would assume has no idea what he;s doing up there) so it could be easy. but a rookie catcher in the playoffs with 40 games of part-time experience? no thanks.
