Yasmani Grandal – by the numbers

Phil Gurnee ♦ July 9, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

• Grandal hit three home runs last night, and could have had a shot at a home run cycle. Grandal hit a solo home run in the 7th, a two-run home run in the 1st, and a three-run home run in the 3rd. At one point it looked like he might be able to come up with the bases loaded but Adrian hit into a double play between two walks.
• Grandal become the 14th LAD to hit at least three home runs in a game. Here is the complete list.
• Grandal is only the second catcher to ever hit three home runs in a game
• Grandal is only the 3rd LAD to ever collect at least five hits, and hit three home runs in a game.
• Grandal has hit twelve home runs, four of those twelve have been three-run home runs. He hit his first two-run home run last night.
• Grandal had his first five-hit game as a Dodger.  He had a four-hit game on May 7th, 2015, a game in which he hit two home runs and drove in eight runs. He also had a  four-hit game as a Padre on April 8th, 2014.
• He now has had two games as a Dodger in which he has driven in at least six runs. Last night, and the aforementioned game on May 7th, 2015.
• His three home runs now give the Dodgers five players with at least 12 home runs, Grandal (12), Thompson (13), Turner (13), Pederson (13), and Seager (17).
• Grandal has only 39 hits, but has driven in 37 runs
• Grandal has eight hits in July, five of the eight hits have been home runs. He has driven in eight runs. He has a TSL of .444 / .545 / 1.278 with an OPS of 1.823 in July.
• Grandal now has 12 home runs. LuCroy as 11. Grandal now has the fourth most home runs as a catcher in major league baseball. He is 2nd in the NL.
• Grandal is now tied with CJ Cron and Wilmer Flores for the most home runs in July with five.

On June 29th, I disagreed with the assertion the Dodgers needed to trade for Jonathan Lucroy with this statement:

I fully expect Grandal to if not out hit Lucroy from this point on, at least match him. I could point to all sorts of advanced metrics as to why I believe this, but if you got this far, you are probably already sleepy. Let’s check back in a few months and see if I whiffed or not.

This should change dramatically but since I’m now doing well on this statement I just thought I’d put it out there:

Grandal – six home runs, eleven RBI, hitting .333 / .438 / 1.000 with an OPS of 1.438

Lucroy – one home run, three RBI, hitting .300 / .364 / .400  with an OPS of .764