Last week I pointed out that the Phillies excelled at preventing walks last year. While Roy Halladay led the charge, the pitchers other than Halladay were exceptionally good at preventing walks as well.
In 2010, NL pitchers combined to throw 23,088 1/3 innings and walked 8,508 batters. That’s a walk rate of 3.32 per nine innings. They faced 99,037 batters — 8,508 walks is a walk rate of 8.59%.
Here’s the list of 2010 Phillies that had a walk rate of less than 3.32 per nine innings and those who walked less than 8.59% of the batters they faced:
| IP | BB | BB/9 | BF | BB | % BF BB | ||
| Andrew Carpenter Roy Halladay Jamie Moyer Joe Blanton Ryan Madson Roy Oswalt Kyle Kendrick Jose Contreras Cole Hamels Vance Worley David Herndon Nelson Figueroa |
3.0 250.7 111.7 175.7 53.0 82.7 180.7 56.7 208.7 13.0 52.3 26.0 |
0 30 20 43 13 21 49 16 61 4 17 9 |
0 1.1 1.6 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.9 3.1 |
Andrew Carpenter Roy Halladay Jamie Moyer Joe Blanton Ryan Madson Kyle Kendrick Roy Oswalt Jose Contreras Cole Hamels David Herndon Vance Worley |
14 993 460 765 217 771 316 233 856 232 51 |
0 30 20 43 13 49 21 16 61 17 4 |
0.00% 3.02% 4.35% 5.62% 5.99% 6.36% 6.65% 6.87% 7.13% 7.33% 7.84% |
| Totals | 1214 | 283 | 2.10 | 4908 | 274 | 5.58% |
Those lists are not ordered the same, but they contain the same pitchers with the exception of Nelson Figueroa. In his 26 innings with the Phils last year, Figueroa walked nine, giving him a rate of walks per nine innings better than 3.32 batters per nine innings even though he walked more than 8.59% of the batters he faced.
Here’s the list of the guys who had a walk rate worse than 3.32 batters per nine or who walked more than 8.59% of the batters that they faced:
| IP | BB | BB/9 | BF | BB | % BF BB | ||
| Chad Durbin Danys Baez Antonio Bastardo Brad Lidge Mike Zagurski J.A. Happ J.C. Romero Scott Mathieson Nate Robertson |
68.7 47.7 18.7 45.7 7.0 15.3 36.7 1.7 1.0 |
27 23 9 24 5 12 29 2 2 |
3.5 4.3 4.3 4.7 6.4 7 7.1 10.8 18 |
Nelson Figueroa Chad Durbin Antonio Bastardo Danys Baez Brad Lidge Mike Zagurski Scott Mathieson J.C. Romero J.A. Happ Nate Robertson |
104 291 86 216 193 34 12 171 70 10 |
9 27 9 23 24 5 2 29 12 2 |
8.65% 9.28% 10.47% 10.65% 12.44% 14.71% 16.67% 16.96% 17.14% 20.00% |
| Totals for group | 242.3 | 133 | 4.94 | 1083 | 133 | 12.28% | |
| Team totals for 2010 | 1456.3 | 416 | 2.57 | 5991 | 407 | 6.79% |
A couple of things stick out when you compare the good walks group to the bad walks group. The first is how much more frequently the good walks group pitched than the bad walks group. By innings pitched, the good walk group of pitchers threw about 83.4% of the total innings thrown by the Phillies in 2010. By batters faced is was about 81.9%.
The second thing is how much better the good group was than the first. By walks per nine innings, the bad group walked about 2.35 times as many hitters. By percentage of walks per batter faced it was about 2.20 times as many.
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