A miscellany of numbers on David Wright, Boston Red Sox pitching and a slugging second baseman, all after the “Read the rest of this entry” thingie.
The Good
Here in New York there has been quite a bit of attention paid to David Wright becoming the Mets’ career franchise leader in hits, passing the 18-season Met Ed Kranepool. But here are some less-noticed points about David:
He has the most hits by a National Leaguer since the beginning of 2005:
1. David Wright 1,346
2. Jose Reyes 1,340
3. Jimmy Rollins 1,316
4. Matt Holliday 1,306
5. Albert Pujols 1,286
Wright is, by far, the advanced-fielding-stats Gold Glover for the NL at third base this season.
Most WAR Fielding Runs by an NL Third Baseman, 2012:
1. David Wright 18
T2. Luis Valbuena and Ryan Roberts 5
4. Aramis Ramirez 4
And that impressive performance on defense, when added to his spectacular first half of the season at bat, puts Wright still in the mix for the top spot in NL WAR for 2012, with three games to go:
1. Andrew McCutchen 7.1
2. Ryan Braun 6.9
T3. David Wright and Yadier Molina 6.8
5. Buster Posey 6.7
The Bad
With three games remaining in the season, the leaders in pitching WAR for the Red Sox are:
1. Scott Atchison 1.7
2. Junichi Tazawa 1.6
3. Clay Buchholz 1.5
No other Boston pitcher is over 0.8 WAR for the season.
The last time the Red Sox went through a full-length season with no pitcher accumulating at least 2.0 WAR or more was 1906. The last AL team before these Red Sox to have gone a season with no pitcher reaching 2.0 WAR was Texas in 2008.
The Uggla
Dan Uggla has tailed off a bit in his home run hitting this season, with just 19 homers through yesterday after 5 years in a row at 30+. But he has hit just enough dingers to have worked his way into the top 10 all-time for career homers as a second baseman. The following list includes only homers hit while in the game as the second baseman:
1. Jeff Kent 351
2. Ryne Sandberg 277
3. Joe Morgan 266
4. Rogers Hornsby 265
5. Bret Boone 251
6. Joe Gordon 246
7. Lou Whitaker 239
8. Craig Biggio 226
9. Bobby Doerr 221
10. Dan Uggla 208
11. Roberto Alomar 207
Dan has also played more games as a National Leaguer than anyone else since the beginning of 2006:
1. Dan Uggla 1,090
2. Brandon Phillips 1,050
3. David Wright 1,030
4. Shane Victorino 1,016
5. Hanley Ramirez 1,004