{"id":94,"date":"2011-07-26T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:27:10","slug":"a-dan-uggla-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/26\/a-dan-uggla-statistic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dan Uggla Statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21 of this year, the Atlanta Braves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/ANA\/ANA201105210.shtml\">beat the Anaheim\/L.A. Angels 5-4<\/a>.  Dan Uggla went 1 for 6 in this game.  What is remarkable about this, you ask?  As far as I can tell, this is the only time all year that he had a hit in a game and actually <strong>lowered<\/strong> his batting average.  In this case, it went down from .190 to .189.  In other words, <em>in every other game this year in which Dan Uggla has done so much as getting a single hit, it&#8217;s been enough to raise his batting average<\/em>.  That&#8217;s how bad his BA has been all season.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, you only have to go back a few days to find an instance in which Freddie Freeman has pulled off this feat.  On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/CIN\/CIN201107230.shtml\">July 23,<\/a> he went 1 for 4, lowering his average from .280 to .279.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now place your bets: will this happen again to Uggla this season?  His batting average now sits at .195, but is climbing thanks to a recent hitting streak.  If he gets it above .200, he just needs a 1 for 5 day to lower his batting average despite getting a hit.  There&#8217;s plenty of season left, I say he does it.  I&#8217;ll say &#8230; early September.  Because I&#8217;m an optimist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21 of this year, the Atlanta Braves beat the Anaheim\/L.A. Angels 5-4. Dan Uggla went 1 for 6 in this game. What is remarkable about this, you ask? As far as I can tell, this is the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2011\/07\/26\/a-dan-uggla-statistic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}