Odd Split: Trout Hits Better Against Righties Than Lefties (Part 2)

Part 1 was yesterday. Trout had an OPS of .999 vs. RHP thru Sat. while it was .941 vs. LHP. Since 2012, all right handed batters combined had .707 & .749. That gives Trout a swing of .100.

For this post, I called up all the right handed batters that had 3000+ PAs since 2012 (thru Sun.). I looked at two things: What % of their PAs were against LHP and their OPS differential (vs. LHP minus vs. RHP).

Trout has faced LHP 24.496% of his PAs, the 15th lowest of the 54 guys in the study.   Another odd thing is that none of them reached the MLB average of 33.78%. Guys who reached 3000+ PAs are probably pretty good hitters overall and maybe they are just not given much of a chance to face LHP, something I wondered about yesterday with Trout. In this group, Austin Jackson had the highest % vs. LHP at 32.9%.

Now the OPS differential. Here are the ten lowest (or most negative). Trout has the biggest negative differential of the group by far. In fact, only 12 of the 54 had a negative OPSDIFF. 14 had a positive differential of .100 or more, with Giancarlo Stanton the biggest at .214 (1.090 - .872).

Player	OPS v. LHP	OPS v. RHP	OPSDiff
Mike Trout	0.950	1.008	-0.058
Brandon Phillips	0.700	0.730	-0.030
Adam Jones	0.767	0.797	-0.030
Albert Pujols	0.752	0.779	-0.027
Jose Bautista	0.822	0.844	-0.022
Carlos Gomez	0.758	0.778	-0.020
Manny Machado	0.806	0.821	-0.015
Edwin Encarnacion	0.888	0.901	-0.013
Jean Segura	0.722	0.735	-0.013
Jonathan Lucroy	0.792	0.797	-0.005