Showing posts with label Alex Gordon Is Awesome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Gordon Is Awesome. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

2012-14 fWAR All-Stars

The tops at each position over the last three years combined as judged by Fangraphs WAR.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Alex Gordon 2013 Defense Highlights

For the third straight year, Alex Gordon played left field almost perfectly. Seemingly any ball to left that can be caught is, his decision making is impeccable, and Royals fans beg the opposition to run on him. For some reason, they still do, bless their little hearts. Here are his defensive highlights this year from MLB.com.



Saturday, November 3, 2012

Alex Gordon 2012 Defense Highlights

Alex Gordon's all-around game has been the best part of Royals baseball for the past two seasons. In addition to a great combination of on-base skills and pop with the bat, he has turned himself into the best defensive left fielder in the game. His 2012 glove work has been recognized with a second straight Gold Glove and as the unanimous choice for the Fielding Bible Award. In honor of another stellar year by Our Alex, here are all the defensive highlights MLB.com has for him in 2012:







many more after the jump

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Royal Doubles

Billy Butler has slowed down in his pursuit of the Royals single-season home run record, but Alex Gordon has a good shot to capture a less glamorous team record: doubles in a season. Hal McRae has held the team mark with 54 since 1977. Gordon is up to 44 and is on pace for 56. Here is a graph of McRae's and Gordon's doubles totals by game:


And while we're talking about Royals doubles, here are the top doubles hitters in team history:

Rk Player 2B
1 George Brett 665
2 Hal McRae 449
3 Frank White 407
4 Amos Otis 365
5 Mike Sweeney 297
6 Willie Wilson 241
7 Joe Randa 223
8 Billy Butler 204
9 David DeJesus 187
10 Freddie Patek 182
11 Alex Gordon 176
12 Mike Macfarlane 174
13 Carlos Beltran 156
14 Johnny Damon 156
15 Mark Teahen 146
Generated 8/29/2012

Mark Teahen looms disturbingly large in team hitting history. Billy and Alex are already looking good from the counting perspective (they might be 8-9 in team history by the end of the year), and their rates look even better. Out of the 76 humanoids with 1000+ plate appearances for the Royals, here are the hitters with the most doubles per 550 PA:

Player PA 2B 2B/550
Mark Quinn 1166 72 34.0
Mark Grudzielanek 1432 88 33.8
Hal McRae 7362 449 33.5
Billy Butler 3392 204 33.1
Alex Gordon 2906 174 32.9
Jeff Francoeur 1141 66 31.8
George Brett 11625 665 31.5
Mike Sweeney 5278 297 30.9
Clint Hurdle 1240 69 30.6
Wally Joyner 2173 120 30.4


Jeff Francoeur ya'all!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Alex Gordon 2011 Defense Highlights

In honor of Alex Gordon's Gold Glove, and one of the truly elite seasons in Royals history, here are all of Alex's 2011 defensive gems I find on MLB.com:



many more after the jump