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10 Year Review: The Hitting Pitchers (a.ka. The Brooks Kieschnick Memorial Edition)

I thought I'd take a look at the hitting accomplishments of Brewer pitchers.  Which of course first brings up Jeff's favorite (and proposed starting 3rd baseman) Brooks Kieschnick.  

In two years and 133 AB, Brooks managed a .286 BA with 8 HR and 19 RBI.  On a sidenote at the time I always thought the Brewers should acquire Rick Ankiel (a LHP) and instead of going through an entire bullpen for righty/lefty matchups they could play Kieschnick and Ankiel at P/LF and rotate between hitters.  Neither would ever truely leave the game and both could pitch and hit.  I know there are some issues with this stragety, mainly keeping two pitchers semi-warm and expecting them to be effective, but the Brewers of those days were pretty pathetic and a little out of the box thinking couldn't have hurt.  Anyway, I digress....

The Brewer pitchers have been remarkable consistent over the years.  Consider the following combined stats of all pitchers not named Kieschnick:
        AB   BA   HR RBI   SO  SH
2006   310  .097  0   21  139  38
2005   321  .106  0   17  139  25
2004   294  .126  0   10  138  28
2003   299  .117  0    9  124  33
2002   296  .145  1   19  134  39
2001   304  .125  0   10  122  29
2000   306  .105  2   11  126  27
1999   304  .145  2   18  125  47
1998   315  .133  2   14  106  33
1997    18  .000  0    0   10   2 (the last year in the AL)

Sort of looks like you can pencil the Brewer batters in for a .120 BA, 15 RBI and 130 K...

Here are some single season "records":
BA (min 30 AB)  Obermueller    .385 (2004)
H                      Rusch               19  (2002, he hit .288)
HR                    Karl                  2  (1999)
RBI                   Bush/Capuano  9  (2006/2005)
BB                    Woodard           6  (1999)
SH                    Rusch              14  (2002)

One other item of note is the batting line by Paul Rigdon in 1999:  16 AB, 1HR, 2 BB, 7 SH.  7 SH in 24 total plate appearances is sort of amazing...

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This would probably be my stat line if I were to play in the majors right now.

For as much as Yost and the regular beat writers/TV announcers harp about the pitchers "not getting the bunts down," certainly looks consistent over the years.  

by nmc on Feb 21, 2007 10:33 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I remembered...
Yost making some comments about that a couple of years ago as well.  Which may mean we haven't gotten any better.  Or else our 7-8 hitters are getting on base equating to more opportunities for our pitchers who aren't executing.  

by Infield Fly Rule on Feb 21, 2007 11:21 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Ankiel/Kiesch
that's brilliant!

The Cubs ought to consider that with Jason Marquis; he's a better hitter than a pitcher these days.

by Jeff Sackmann on Feb 21, 2007 2:02 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Precedents
I found this list of previous instances when a pitcher moved to another position and then back to pitcher a few batters later.  Pretty interesting; Chuck Crim did it for the Brewers in 1989.

by battlekow on Feb 21, 2007 3:56 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Wow
That was a great list to find...

by Infield Fly Rule on Feb 21, 2007 5:12 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Definitely
It's part of a series. They're all good reads. Can't believe I hadn't seen this before.

Overview
In Name Only
Platoon Advantage
No Remaining Players
Final Days Of Season
Other

by battlekow on Feb 21, 2007 5:35 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

wait...
so why did we get rid of Kieschick, i'm still confused
Can we bring back the huge Keg and cup for Bernie?

by grobbins on Feb 21, 2007 3:26 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

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