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I'm thinking of doing a little project this season over at Driveline Mechanics where I take around 10-12 hitters with large, "reverse" or other interesting sorts of platoon splits. My plan is to take a looks that their OBP and maybe wOBA splits so far, and then use something like The Book's suggested method for "predciting" what they'll be in 2009.

Instead of picking them all myself, I was thinking it might be helpful to get suggestions, since there are a lot of players out there who might have interesting splits. I'm hoping for mainly left- and right-handed hitters, since switch hitters, while cool, have their own splits defined much earlier on (after about 600 PAs), and hopefully players with at least 2-3 years of MLB experience who haven't been (or aren't going to be) heavily platooned.

Please post the suggestions in the comments to the linked blog post, if you can, and thanks in advance.

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Joe Mauer

Had a fairly extreme “reverse” split last year, although based on his previous performance it’s probably a one-season fluke.

by FROZEN on Apr 11, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions  

Aki

Iwamura has a reverse platoon split…of about .010 in OPS. There is about a 300 PA sample size difference that probably accounts for the difference.

"Never judge a taco by its price" - Dr. Gonzo

by KennyWang on Apr 11, 2009 2:06 PM EDT reply actions  

thanks, keep them coming

if you have time, could you post these in the comments at Driveline so that I have them all in one place?

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by Matt Klaassen on Apr 11, 2009 2:59 PM EDT reply actions  

ryan ludwick (RHB), for his career

vs lefties, 499 PA, .235/.315/.481 (.795 OPS)
vs righties, 748 PA, .297/.363/.532 (.895 OPS)

- So, to ease his pain, you're supposed to take him to a ball game?
- Yes.

by SleepyCA on Apr 11, 2009 3:40 PM EDT reply actions  

you stole my player!

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on Apr 12, 2009 3:32 AM EDT up reply actions  

Ditto

Play him everyday, Tony! For serious.

by mattybobo on Apr 13, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

well, he did turn 30 last summer

seems like its about time for LaRussa to start hating him for no particular reason

Cf. Rolen, S.; Kennedy, A.

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by Matt Klaassen on Apr 13, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

I actually don't mind

Ludwick seems like a sure thing to produce, but we don’t know what we are going to get out of Duncan, Rasmus and Ankiel. It might make sense to give them more playing time, until we know who should be starting out of those three.

St. Louis Cardinals... defying win expectancy since 2008

by vivaelpujols on Apr 13, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ichiro

has batted 20 points higher for his career against lefties

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by Trenchtown on Apr 13, 2009 11:48 PM EDT reply actions  

WEll, my "projections" are up

in this post.

Thanks to all who suggested names. They aren’t all in there, but most of them are.

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by Matt Klaassen on Apr 15, 2009 12:19 PM EDT reply actions  

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