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Insight To Binghamton’s Batting Success

By John Bernhardt

August 30, 2014 4 Comments

TJ Rivera Batting

MLBfarm.com is an interesting site with some great statistical batting data on minor league baseball players.  Here are some interesting asides involving Binghamton Mets players.

Everyone who follows the Mets minor league teams knows T.J. Rivera is going crazy in the batter’s box in Binghamton.  Rivera, an infielder who was elevated to Binghamton in midseason, has had multiple hit games in seven of his last eight games, going 18-for-30 for the B-Mets.  Rivera has scored six times and knocked in 6 runs over that 8 game span.

In his last 10 games Rivera is hitting .600.  Those numbers drop to .398 over a 30-game span and are still a hefty .370 during his time with the B-Mets.

What really caught my attention, was Rivera’s ability to hit to all fields.  The report of the B-Met infielders hit location is particularly telling.  Rivera, a right-handed batter, has hit 69 balls to right field, 68 balls to center field and 66 balls to left field.  In addition, Rivera has hit 68 balls to shortstop.

Detractors gnashed their teeth when Brandon Nimmo started his time at Double-A Binghamton painfully slow. Watching Nimmo many times this summer it’s hard for me to understand the concerns.  The kid is an exciting talent with great baseball instincts and a huge upside.

Nimmo has settled in quite nicely for Binghamton.  Over his last 30 days, Nimmo is batting .296 with six doubles, four triples, and a home run.  Add in Nimmo’s 13 base-on-balls over that time span and that gives him a .378 on-base-percentage.

Nimmo’s batting charts validate my personal appreciation for his ability to go with a pitch where it’s thrown.  Nimmo, a left-handed hitter has directed the largest number of pitches to leftflield, 79, with 68 going to center and 38 to right.  Yet he pulls more infield balls to second and first than to third and short.

Unaccustomed to playing baseball in cold weather, Jayce Boyd had a dreadful start at the plate in Binghamton.  As the spring air turned from cold to moderate and then summer rolled into upstate New York, Boyd turned his season around.  Over the last 30 days the B-Met first baseman/DH has hit a sparkling .382 with eight doubles, a triple and three HR’s.  Boyd has put together an impressive .482 on-base-percentage over that time.

Even more impressive is Boyd’s ability to hit against Top 20  MLB pitching prospects.  Boyd has a .349 season’s average against the best pitchers he faces.

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