We're about to come back from our first holiday break, and with most teams a quarter or third of the way through their seasons it's a perfect time to measure up where players sit so far. We already broke down the
top-ten pitchers through the first four weeks, so now let's look on the other side of the ball at the top ten hitters. Similarly to how things were done with the pitchers, we'll first rank them 1-10 (and beyond) in a number of individual stat categories:
The Old School Categories
- Batting Average: The tried and true, most basic offensive baseball stat.
- Slugging Percentage: Average on steroids, slugging is better representation of power and production.
- On-Base Percentage: Walks are boring, but a lot of people like them. Here ya go.
The More Obscure Categories
- Plate Appearances per RBI: How frequently will this player produce a run?
- At Bats per Home Run: How frequently will this player clear the bases?
- Bases per Hit: Similar to slugging, using Total Bases, but only focused on hit quality when something happens.
Once we can see where the players stack up in the individual categories, we'll then take the average of all six categories to compute their overall "Composite Rank." That number is then used for a final ranking across the entire offensive spectrum: Closer the composite rank is to 1, the better the player.
| * Minimum of 20 PA required for consideration |
| BATTING AVERAGE (AVG) |
| 1) |
Stephen Farkas |
.377 |
| 2) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
.320 |
| 3) |
Anthony Kreza |
.316 |
| 4) |
Dennis Pearson |
.310 |
| 5) |
Evan Bortmas |
.298 |
| 6) |
Stephen Werner |
.259 |
| 7) |
Austin Bischoff |
.258 |
| 8) |
Nathan Gendron |
.219 |
| 9) |
Travis Strojny |
.190 |
| 10) |
David Castle |
.188 |
|
| SLUGGING PERCENTAGE (SLG%) |
| 1) |
Stephen Farkas |
.660 |
| 1) |
Evan Bortmas |
.660 |
| 3) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
.640 |
| 4) |
Dennis Pearson |
.595 |
| 5) |
Nathan Gendron |
.594 |
| 6) |
Austin Bischoff |
.548 |
| 7) |
Anthony Kreza |
.546 |
| 8) |
Travis Strojny |
.500 |
| 9) |
Stephen Werner |
.444 |
| 10) |
David Castle |
.375 |
|
| ON-BASE PERCENTAGE (OBP) |
| 1) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
.630 |
| 2) |
Stephen Werner |
.545 |
| 3) |
Evan Bortmas |
.542 |
| 4) |
Stephen Farkas |
.515 |
| 5) |
David Buhr |
.500 |
| 6) |
Kevin Doby |
.468 |
| 7) |
Chandler Phillips |
.467 |
| 8) |
Dennis Pearson |
.463 |
| 9) |
Anthony Kreza |
.458 |
| 10) |
Chris Paquin |
.452 |
|
| PLATE APPEARANCES per RBI (PA/RBI) |
| 1) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
3.83 |
| 2) |
Dennis Pearson |
4.15 |
| 3) |
Austin Bischoff |
4.18 |
| 4) |
Travis Strojny |
4.58 |
| 5) |
Stephen Farkas |
4.86 |
| 6) |
Craig Skinner |
5.75 |
| 7) |
Anthony Kreza |
6.00 |
| 8) |
Nathan Gendron |
7.17 |
| 9) |
Evan Bortmas |
7.20 |
| 10) |
John Sharlow |
7.43 |
|
| AT BATS per HOME RUN (AB/HR) |
| 1) |
Nathan Gendron |
8.0 |
| 2) |
Evan Bortmas |
9.4 |
| 3) |
Dennis Pearson |
10.5 |
| 3) |
Travis Strojny |
10.5 |
| 5) |
Stephen Farkas |
10.6 |
| 6) |
Austin Bischoff |
12.4 |
| 7) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
12.5 |
| 8) |
David Castle |
16.0 |
| 9) |
Craig Skinner |
18.5 |
| 10) |
Anthony Kreza |
19.0 |
|
| BASES per HIT (Bases/H) |
| 1) |
Craig Skinner |
2.75 |
| 2) |
Nathan Gendron |
2.71 |
| 3) |
Travis Strojny |
2.63 |
| 4) |
Evan Bortmas |
2.21 |
| 5) |
Austin Bischoff |
2.13 |
| 6) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
2.00 |
| 6) |
David Castle |
2.00 |
| 6) |
Nick Braden |
2.00 |
| 9) |
Dennis Pearson |
1.92 |
| 10) |
John Sharlow |
1.86 |
|
| # |
PLAYER RANK |
AVG |
SLG% |
OBP |
PA/RBI |
AB/HR |
Bases/H |
COMPOSITE
RANK |
| 1) |
Kyle Tomlinson |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
6 |
3.3 |
| 2) |
Evan Bortmas |
5 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
2 |
4 |
4.0 |
| 3) |
Stephen Farkas |
1 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
11 |
4.5 |
| 4) |
Dennis Pearson |
4 |
4 |
8 |
2 |
3 |
9 |
5.0 |
| 5) |
Nathan Gendron |
8 |
5 |
14 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
6.3 |
| 6) |
Travis Strojny |
9 |
8 |
19 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
7.7 |
| 7) |
Anthony Kreza |
3 |
7 |
9 |
7 |
10 |
14 |
8.3 |
| 8) |
Austin Bischoff |
7 |
6 |
24 |
3 |
6 |
5 |
8.5 |
| 9) |
Stephen Werner |
6 |
9 |
2 |
13 |
14 |
13 |
9.5 |
| 10) |
David Castle |
10 |
10 |
17 |
11 |
8 |
6 |
10.3 |
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