Puig has added the walk to his repetiore

Phil Gurnee ♦ August 22, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

Puig has fifteen walks in August which made me run a search to find out how many Dodgers had at least fifteen walks since Puig started playing baseball in 2013.

Some surprising findings:

• This only the second time in his career that he has gotten at least fifteen walks in a month.
• Adrian Gonzalez has only done it once since 2013 despite playing every day until this year.
• Yazmani Grandal has only done it once despite a reputation as a patient/power hitter.
• Hanley Ramirez only did it once
• Justin Turner has only done it once
• Chris Taylor has only done it once but this is his first full-time season.
• Corey Seager has done it twice this year
• Joc Pederson currently playing in AAA has done it five times but four of those five times came back in 2015.

I expected more. Much more.

Player                  Split Year BB  PA   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS
Adrian Gonzalez      Sept/Oct 2015 15 115 .232 .330 .364  .694
Yasmani Grandal        August 2016 16  91 .253 .385 .560  .945
Joc Pederson         Sept/Oct 2016 15  79 .286 .430 .651 1.081
Joc Pederson              May 2015 16 123 .236 .341 .519  .860
Joc Pederson      April/March 2015 17  77 .298 .461 .596 1.057
Joc Pederson           August 2015 21  74 .120 .384 .260  .644
Joc Pederson             June 2015 22 124 .222 .379 .495  .874
Yasiel Puig            August 2017 15  68 .226 .397 .472  .869
Yasiel Puig               May 2014 17 128 .398 .492 .731 1.224
Hanley Ramirez           June 2014 15  84 .294 .417 .441  .858
Corey Seager      April/March 2017 15 107 .319 .411 .549  .961
Corey Seager              May 2017 17 116 .255 .371 .388  .758
Chris Taylor              May 2017 17 107 .322 .430 .511  .941
Justin Turner            July 2017 18  94 .260 .404 .507  .911

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Generated 8/22/2017.