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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Some interesting Carl Crawford stats

Posted Feb 13, 2010 by Roger Mooney

Updated Feb 13, 2010 at 03:03 PM

Found this info on Carl Crawford in Buster Olney’s ESPN blog …

Stats courtesy of Mark Simon of ESPN Stats & Information:
Some areas in which Crawford excels that you might not be aware of …
Offense
Areas of strength in 2009 (Inside Edge)
                            Crawford League avg. MLB percentile
OPS against non-fastballs   .798     .632         Top 7 percent
BA with 2 strikes             .238     .191         Top 12 percent
BA against fastballs         .326     .290         Top 19 percent
BA against fastballs away     .308     .273         Top 25 percent
Areas of weakness in 2009 (Inside Edge)
                          Crawford League avg. MLB percentile
Chase pct. with 2 strikes     48       36         Bottom   7 percent
SLG against high fastballs   .333     .438         Bottom 20 percent
Baserunning
• Crawford was on second base 24 times last season when a single was hit. He scored on 20 of them. That level of success is very impressive compared to MLB average.
• He stole 30 bases in 31 attempts during the first two months of the 2009 season, but was caught 15 times in his next 45 attempts.