OBI% Clutch Hitters in World Series
Hamilton: 6th best OBI% in MLB.
If you are the National League representative in the World Series, the guys you don’t want to face are Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero. No surprise there.
Hamilton had a OBI% of 19.4%, good for sixth in the MLB this year amongst players with at least 486 plate appearances. Guerrero was not far behind at 18.8%. The guy in the Rangers lineup that you do want to face in a runners on base situation? Elvis Andrus at 10.4%.
About 13-14 is the average for MLB hitters so use that as a judge of a hitters ability to knock in runners on base.
Here’s a look at the World Series and NLCS players and their OBI% for the 2010 season.
Rangers
- Josh Hamilton — 19.4%
- Vladimir Guerrero — 18.8%
- Nelson Cruz — 17.6%
- Mitchell Moreland — 15.0%
- Ian Kinsler — 12.9%
- Julio Borbon — 12.3%
- Bengie Molina — 11.5%
- Elvis Andrus — 10.4%
Giants
- Pat Burrell — 17.7%
- Andres Torres — 16.5%
- Freddy Sanchez — 16.3%
- Buster Posey — 16.2%
- Juan Uribe — 15.4%
- Aubrey Huff — 15.2%
- Aaron Rowand — 13.7%
- Pablo Sandoval — 13.2%
Phillies
- Jimmy Rollins — 17.6%
- Ryan Howard — 16.8%
- Shane Victorino — 16.6%
- Chase Utley — 16.1%
- Raul Ibanez — 15.0%
- Placido Polanco — 14.1%
- Carlos Ruiz — 13.8%
- Jayson Werth — 13.0%
OBI % stats courtesy of Baseball Prospectus.
