Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hi! My Name is: Chris Britton

Each day, "Piss and Wynegar" will present Yankees "player previews" for the coming 2008 season. In what can only be referred to as a "revelatory" strategy, we will use statistics, as well as opinion, to further our analysis.

Good fastball. Control problems. Weight problems.

(Note to self: copy and paste all of the above into Brian Bruney preview.)

Will probably see an awful lot of beautiful Scranton this year.

Oh, well. Wonder how the Orioles are enjoying Jaret Wright?

Seriously though, we’d be surprised (and incredibly worried) if Britton makes the Opening Day roster…mainly because he posted a BABIP of .310 in 37 games at Scranton last year. For those of you who are not familiar with BABIP – that means when he was hit, he was hit hard. Like really hard. That means a very straight fastball.

Which is bad.

To read earlier "Hi! My Name Is" entries, click here.

1 comment:

Dr. Professor said...

Yes, but he's lighting it up in Spring Training this year!

"Lighting it up" is in reference to his numbers, not his weight...which is still very, very un-light.