Another shitty Cubs season in review: Jeff Baker

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Midway through the 2009 season the Cubs acquired Jeff Baker from the Rockies in exchange for Al Alburquerque. Alburquerque striked out a lot of batters, but walked more than his fair share. He was 23 at the time and at best appeared to be a middle reliever. The Cubs acquired someone with potential who at the very least would be a quality back-up at 2nd and 3rd base. In 224 PA for the Cubs in 2009 Baker had a .355 wOBA. He absolutely crushed lefties and had some difficulty with righties.

He was mediocre in 224 PA in 2010 and was quite bad in 2011. Despite a .333 BABIP, he hit only .269/.302/.383 (good for a .300 wOBA). His ISO fell to .114. His walk rate fell. Baker managed an impressive 23.8% line drive rate, but when he wasn’t hitting liners, he was pounding the ball into the ground. His GB/FB ratio was the highest in his career at 1.7. In his career 43.8% of balls in play have been grounders. Last year it was just over 48%. His FB rate fell to 28%. He ended the season hitting only 3 home runs.

In his career he’s swung at 28.8% of pitchest out of the zone. In 2011 he did on 37.7% of out of zone pitches. His overall contact rate was about the same so he was hitting pitches that were much more difficult to made solid contact on.

DRS, UZR and Total Zone all had Baker below average on defense in 2011. He had been an above average fielder.

His career wRC+ vs lefties is 127 and last year it was 119. He didn’t hit them as well as he had been, but he still hit them well above average. In Baker’s impressive stint with the Cubs in 2009 he was league average vs righties. He’d never hit them well in the past and in 2010 he posted a wOBA of .150 against righties (-22 wRC+). This past year he improved all the way to a 26 wRC+. Jeff Baker cannot hit righties. He should really not ever face them if it’s at all possible.

Since Baker continues to hit lefties well he’ll stick around on an MLB roster for awhile. The Cubs could easily use him next season in a platoon role or they can use him off the bench vs lefties. If he ability to hit lefties continues to decline he won’t be around baseball much longer.

By the way, nobody really could have seen Alburquerque progressing as he did, but in 2011 he made his big league debut and put up silly numbers. In 43.1 innings he allowed 21 hits. Yes, you read that right. He didn’t allow a single home run and he struckout 67 (13.9 per 9 innings). He did walk 6 per 9 so that’s going to be an issue, but he had a pretty good rookie season.


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  5. Rice Cube

    [quote name=Berselius]It’s sounding like Santo —–> HOF is a done deal[/quote]Is that like a pre-announcement before Monday’s official announcement?

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  6. Berselius

    [quote name=Rice Cube]Is that like a pre-announcement before Monday’s official announcement?[/quote]
    I’ll see if I can find them, one or two of the media guys posted wink-wink-nudge-nudge articles about the election last night. I probably saw them from WSD (dying laughing)

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  8. GBTS

    [quote name=Berselius]http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/7349/ron-santo-nearing-hall-entry?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter[/quote]Or this is the HOF just giving his family one more swift kick to its collective nads.

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  10. Aisle424

    [quote name=GBTS]Or this is the HOF just giving his family one more swift kick to its collective nads.[/quote]
    That’s what I’ll think until it is officially official. At least he can’t sit by his phone in front of all of Chicago sports media waiting for a phone call that never comes. That still fucking pissed me off more than any of it.

    “Hey Ron, you might want to be ready to take a very important phone call from the Hall of Fame………. psych!”

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  11. Mercurial Outfielder

    I don’t know if MB sent his Christmas cards to everyone here, so I just wanted to share his his Christmas cheer with all of you:

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  17. Recalcitrant Blogger Nate

    [quote name=Berselius]http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/cubs/post/_/id/7349/ron-santo-nearing-hall-entry?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter[/quote]

    its still pretty shitty that they waited til he died.

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  20. Suburban kid

    [quote name=Berselius]If the Superfriends can unload a bucket of salsa at 50 cents on the dollar it will be the greatest feat they ever pull off.[/quote].

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  21. Mercurial Outfielder

    [quote name=Recalcitrant Blogger Nate]its still pretty shitty that they waited til he died.[/quote]The VC are just a bunch of ignorant, petty, bitter codgers who use their votes to justify their biases.

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  23. Berselius

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    False.

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  25. Mercurial Outfielder

    [quote name=Suburban kid]I have no idea of what you are talking about.[/quote]That was the worst thing to every happen on this blog.

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  26. Suburban kid

    [quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]That was the worst thing to every happen on this blog.[/quote]I was misquoted. (dying laughing)

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  30. Rice Cube

    [quote name=Berselius]Phil Rogers’s dog told him that the Cubs are interested in Kuroda[/quote]That had to be a classic Lassie moment.

    Philassie: WOOF!

    Phil Rogers: “What’s that girl? Theo’s going after Hiroki Kuroda?”

    Philassie: WOOF WOOF!

    Phil Rogers: “And Tony Campana fell in the well again? Well let’s go!”

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  33. Mercurial Outfielder

    Jeebus is letting all the Bears best players get hurt so Tebow can let the light of glory shine next week.

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