Let's look at Casey McGehee

Ok I could write all day long about how awesome it was to sweep the Twins this weekend. It was in fact awesome. Did you hear the Cardinals got swept by the Blue Jays?? Also awesome.

So the Crew has a 3 game lead in the Central headed to the Bronx Tuesday. Absolutely no complaints there.

Now for the bad news. The left side of the Brewers infield has not been good this year. Both Yuniesky Betancourt and Casey McGehee have been bad on offense and defense. While I've already had my fun with Yuni and suggested a replacement Yuni has 8 hits in the last 6 games so let's turn to Mr McGehee.

.227/.280/.316

that's good for a -0.8 oWAR

defense??

-0.4 dWAR

yeah that's not good. Let's dig deeper.


Average vs left handed pitchers: .188

Slugging vs left handed pitchers: .188

what??

69 plate appearances, 12 singles, 0 extra base hits vs lefties. Also 0 runs scored.

seriously

last year Casey was .316/.358/.589 vs lefties.

let's return to our friend leverage. Casey seems to do better when the pressure is on.

	low leverage	medium leverage	high leverage
average	.221	.229	.250

ok not concrete evidence.

how about with runners on base??

	bases empty	runner on base	runner in scoring position
average	.219	.234	.265

a deeper look at leverage situations:

	low leverage	medium leverage	high leverage
OBP	.264	.295	.292
slugging	.314	.282	.550

so Casey hits better when the pressure is on??

He went .223/.295/.362 last June. Maybe it's just a summer thing.