Comments on: Vance trance http://www.philliesflow.com/2011/09/07/vance-trance/ A fan's Philadelphia Phillies blog Fri, 24 May 2013 01:11:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: egrissom http://www.philliesflow.com/2011/09/07/vance-trance/#comment-56634 egrissom Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:47:33 +0000 http://www.philliesflow.com/?p=4569#comment-56634 I’m kind of a little worried about Utley in general. Great to see him hit one out yesterday. 226/285/353 over his last 144 plate appearances since July 31. Last year the worry was that his power against righties was lacking. This year he’s been good against righties (287/366/482) but not hitting lefties (202/286/340 after pounding them to a 294/422/581 line last year). So I have no idea.

People make a big deal about what Howard does against lefties, but he’s been better against lefties than Utley has this year. Howard is at 236/293/366 — better in all three of the slash categories than Utley.

During the off-season last year, I was writing about the problems Utley and Howard were having against right-handed pitching. This year they are both doing better against righties, but not hitting lefties at all.
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]]> By: Jim http://www.philliesflow.com/2011/09/07/vance-trance/#comment-56632 Jim Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:34:32 +0000 http://www.philliesflow.com/?p=4569#comment-56632 I was beginning to worry Chase only had warning track power..

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