Chipper on .400

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/braves/entries/2008/...30/_u_k

""Not driving the ball out of the ballpark quite the way I want," he said.
...
"This hitting .400 thing kind of takes away from your aggressiveness.
Whereas you might look to juice a ball 2-0, I find myself trying to get
hits, trying to get multiple-hit games and whatnot, and it's taking away
from some of the times during the course of a game where I might pick a spot
and swing from the heels and try to break somebody's back or just tie it up.
That's been the only thing in the streak that I've been on that's cost me."
....
"The slugging percentage is still there, the OPS is still there, the on-base
percentage is still there," Jones said. "So just because I haven't hit a
home run in over a week, not only do people you're talking to say something
about it, I'm thinking about it too because quite frankly, I've got 70 hits
this year and not enough of them are for extra bases. And that bothers me.

"If I had 20 doubles and 15 homers, that's great. That's 35 extra base hits;
that's 35 singles. That's OK. But the fact that I've only got 24, 25 extra
base hits that's bothers me. Because I'm not a singles guy."

Colin
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"Science is based on a fundamental insight - that the degree to which an
idea seems true has nothing to do with whether it is true"

In article <6adsh1F3616v3U2.TakeThisOut@mid.individual.net>,
colintwilliam.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com says...
> http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/braves/entries/2008/...30/_u_k
>
> ""Not driving the ball out of the ballpark quite the way I want," he said.
> ..
> "This hitting .400 thing kind of takes away from your aggressiveness.
> Whereas you might look to juice a ball 2-0, I find myself trying to get
> hits, trying to get multiple-hit games and whatnot, and it's taking away
> from some of the times during the course of a game where I might pick a spot
> and swing from the heels and try to break somebody's back or just tie it up.
> That's been the only thing in the streak that I've been on that's cost me."
> ...
> "The slugging percentage is still there, the OPS is still there, the on-base
> percentage is still there," Jones said. "So just because I haven't hit a
> home run in over a week, not only do people you're talking to say something
> about it, I'm thinking about it too because quite frankly, I've got 70 hits
> this year and not enough of them are for extra bases. And that bothers me.

Could someone volunteer to explain to Chipper that 492/637 is much
better for his team than his previous numbers that he put up when he
was being a "slugger" (406/549)?

Simply put, tell him to quit bitching about being on base every other
at bat.

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