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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Carl Crawford On The Road

Carl Crawford will be playing his home games in Fenway Park next season, a place he is very familiar with. Other than Tropicana Field, Fenway is where Crawford has played the most games (and AB's and PA's) in his career. How has he done there? Not very well. Here are his career away numbers at each stadium in the American League:
TEAM-Field        G  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG  OPS BAbip tOPS+
CHW-US Cellular  25 101 18 36  7  1  4 15  3  7 15 .356 .414 .564 .979  .390   150
MIN-Target Field  4  20  5  8  2  0  0  1  0  1  5 .400 .429 .500 .929  .533   140
SEA-Safeco Fld   32 136 20 49  8  1  1  8  3 10 13 .360 .403 .456 .859  .387   122
NYY-Yankee Stad3 17  74  8 25  1  1  2  7  2  2 12 .338 .364 .459 .823  .383   111
TOR-Rogers Ctr   68 287 53 85  9  6 11 27  3 12 48 .296 .326 .484 .810  .320   106
KCR-KauffmanStad 30 124 24 35  3  3  5 13  1  8 18 .282 .326 .476 .802  .297   104
TEX-AmeriquestFd 36 156 22 42  7  7  1  8  4 12 18 .269 .325 .423 .749  .299    92
BAL-Camden Yards 71 297 38 87 19  5  4 16  5 12 41 .293 .319 .431 .750  .328    92
DET-Comerica Pk  23  82 10 24  3  1  1  6  1  8 14 .293 .352 .390 .742  .338    92
MIN-Metrodome    25  99 11 25  4  2  3  3  2 10 16 .253 .321 .424 .745  .275    91
BOS-Fenway Pk    76 320 35 88 24  3  4 26  1  9 61 .275 .301 .406 .708  .327    81
NYY-Yankee Stad  49 208 32 59  7  3  1 19  5  9 34 .284 .315 .361 .676  .333    75
LAA-Angel Stad   32 126 18 31  7  2  0  8  1  9 22 .246 .301 .333 .635  .298    64
OAK-McAfee Col   33 134 21 30  7  1  0 14  1 10 19 .224 .278 .291 .569  .261    48
CLE-Jacobs Fld   29 114  9 23  2  1  0  8  1  7 23 .202 .246 .237 .483  .250    26
Interestingly, he has had even worse numbers at his other main suitor, the Angels. For comparison, Crawford has hit .304/.345/.459/.804 for a 106 OPS+ in Tropicana Field. At least he didn't sign with the Indians, wow.

Note: The Twins and Yankees have had two stadiums during Crawford's career. For the Twins, they now play at Target Field, and for the Yankees "Stad3" is their current one.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 6:22 PM

    It would be awesome if Crawford hit that way in Fenway for all 7 years.

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  2. DougDecember 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM

    Now now, let's wish him the best. And remember this is just over a half season of ABs over his entire career, some many years ago when he probably would have been in the minors for most teams. And many of those early years he was the biggest threat in the Rays lineup, so probably didn't get the best pitches to hit.

    I'm not buying any thank you ads, and I wish he'd gone to the NL or at least out of the AL East, but I appreciate what he's done for the Rays and congratulate him on his good fortune. It's quite a good fortune!

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