Saturday, November 5, 2022

GDP rates for left handed and right handed batters

I used data from pages like this from Baseball Reference: 2011 National League PH/HR/Situ Hitting. It shows how many opportunities each batter in a season had to hit into a DP and their number of DPs. Then I moved it into an Excel file.

Left handed batters have a * after their names while switch hitters have a # (I did not look at switch hitters). The command I used to separate out the different type of hitters was =ISNUMBER(SEARCH(G2,F2)). It will say if the cell contains * or #. If it does it gives TRUE. If not, FALSE. Then I can sort and separate all of those and then get totals for opportunities and DPs.

The table below shows the rates for each league for all years from 2011-2022 except 2020, the shortened Covid season.

Year

AL LHB

AL RHB

NL LHB

NL RHB

2011

9.74%

11.66%

8.90%

11.01%

2012

9.85%

12.56%

8.85%

11.78%

2013

9.50%

12.18%

9.16%

12.53%

2014

8.86%

11.97%

8.63%

11.84%

2015

9.09%

12.18%

9.98%

12.10%

2016

10.02%

12.10%

9.30%

11.39%

2017

9.66%

12.37%

9.64%

11.37%

2018

8.26%

12.00%

8.28%

10.65%

2019

8.27%

11.61%

8.57%

11.34%

2021

7.72%

11.33%

8.61%

10.58%

2022

8.17%

11.43%

7.99%

11.47%

 

 

 

 

 

Total

9.04%

11.92%

8.90%

11.46%


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