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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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...
by Infield Fly Rule on Feb 21, 2007 11:21 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Ankiel/Kiesch
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
by battlekow on Feb 21, 2007 3:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
by Infield Fly Rule on Feb 21, 2007 5:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Definitely
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by battlekow on Feb 21, 2007 5:35 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
wait...
by grobbins on Feb 21, 2007 3:26 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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