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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I've been swayed to think more along the lines of On Base and Slugging % verses a players batting average. Marco Scutaro hitting .275 with a .470 slugging percentage and .400 on base is doing the Jays more use than a guy who hits 300 with a 350 on base and 390 slugging would.
Rios and Wells both need to get their on base and slugging numbers up. At least a guy like Overbay is posting a .350 on base and close to .500 slugging. I can tolerate him batting 247 or whatever if those other numbers are there. But Wells .320 on base and like .430 slugging...no good.
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I agree......it's just that everyone on here has been complaining about his batting average so far this season. A .750 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage), though, is right around his average of .774 for April. His career OPS for July? .909, and it gradually steps up until that point and then falls way off to around .750 after. I'm not advocating the big contract given to Wells, I just think that his numbers so far this year are par for the course, and that he'll start tearing it up, hopefully tonight. We all need to hope for a statistical anomaly for the Aug./Sep. period if the Jays want to make the playoffs IMO.