P.R. vs. D.R. Batter-Pitcher Matchups

Assuming that both D.R. manager Manny Acta and P.R. manager Jose Oquendo use in the second round opener the same pitchers that they used in the first round opener, the matchups look like this:

Puerto Rico vs. Bartolo Colon

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Javy Lopez	14	3	1	0	1	1	2	1	0.214	0.313	0.500	0.813	0.50
Ivan Rodriguez	27	8	2	0	1	7	1	8	0.296	0.310	0.481	0.792	8.00
Javier Valentin	14	4	1	0	0	1	2	5	0.286	0.375	0.357	0.732	2.50
Alex Cora	16	4	1	0	0	1	1	1	0.250	0.294	0.313	0.607	1.00
Carlos Delgado	39	12	5	0	1	4	5	13	0.308	0.386	0.513	0.899	2.60
Ruben Gotay	12	4	1	0	1	4	0	2	0.333	0.333	0.667	1.000
Jose Valentin	30	7	2	0	0	2	2	7	0.233	0.281	0.300	0.581	3.50
Carlos Beltran	38	12	2	0	4	7	5	10	0.316	0.395	0.684	1.080	2.00
Jose Cruz Jr	31	8	4	0	2	3	9	9	0.258	0.425	0.581	1.006	1.00
Ricky Ledee	10	1	1	0	0	0	2	5	0.100	0.250	0.200	0.450	2.50
Luis Matos	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.250	0.400	0.250	0.650
Alexis Rios	9	2	0	1	0	3	0	2	0.222	0.222	0.444	0.667
Bernie Williams	22	6	0	0	1	2	3	6	0.273	0.360	0.409	0.769	2.00

Some of the Puerto Rican guys have had some success against Colon, notably Pudge, Delgado, Gotay, Beltran and Bernie Williams. Beltran has particularly hit him well and hard, getting four homers off Colon. Jose Cruz Jr. has been very successful getting on base versus Colon too A lot of these guys have seen Colon plenty of times, 4 have faced him more than 30 times and Pudge and Bernie have faced him between 20 and 30 times. The good news for the D.R. is that Delgado isn’t likely to play in this one, so the big worries in this lineup should be Pudge and Beltran.

P.R. vs. Miguel Batista

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Javy Lopez	21	6	1	0	1	2	0	4	0.286	0.286	0.476	0.762
Ivan Rodriguez	13	3	1	0	0	2	1	3	0.231	0.286	0.308	0.593	3.00
Alex Cora	32	9	2	0	0	4	1	3	0.281	0.303	0.344	0.647	3.00
Carlos Delgado	6	2	1	0	0	1	3	1	0.333	0.556	0.500	1.056	0.33
Jose Valentin	5	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	0.200	0.500	0.400	0.900	0.00
Carlos Beltran	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Jose Cruz Jr	19	2	0	0	0	2	1	4	0.105	0.150	0.105	0.255	4.00
Ricky Ledee	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.250	0.250	0.250	0.500
Luis Matos	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0.400	0.333	0.400	0.733
Bernie Williams	14	3	2	0	1	4	3	0	0.214	0.353	0.571	0.924	0.00

Batista has been much more successful against the Puerto Rican batters he has faced. Only Javy Lopez, Delgado, Alex Cora and Luis Matos have given him any problems. He’s only faced Beltran once though, so those numbers aren’t representative at all.

P.R. vs. Damaso Marte

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Javy Lopez	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.500	0.500	0.500	1.000
Ivan Rodriguez	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0.333	0.000	0.333	0.00
Javier Valentin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
Alex Cintron	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Alex Cora	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Carlos Delgado	6	1	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.167	0.286	0.667	0.952	2.00
Eduardo Perez	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0.500	0.000	0.500	0.00
Carlos Beltran	5	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	0.600	0.600	1.200	1.800
Jose Cruz Jr	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Luis Matos	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Alexis Rios	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Bernie Williams	5	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0.200	0.333	0.200	0.533	1.00

This guy has been fantastic versus the P.R. hitters, except against Beltran who has pounded him. Javy Lopez has also been successful vs. Marte.

P.R. vs. Julian Tavarez

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Javy Lopez	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.000	0.286	0.000	0.286	2.00
Ivan Rodriguez	15	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	0.467	0.467	0.600	1.067
Javier Valentin	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.500	0.500	0.500	1.000
Alex Cintron	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
Alex Cora	11	3	1	0	0	1	2	2	0.273	0.385	0.364	0.748	1.00
Carlos Delgado	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.500	0.667	1.000	1.667	0.00
Eduardo Perez	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.333	0.500	0.333	0.833	1.00
Jose Valentin	10	2	0	0	0	2	2	2	0.200	0.333	0.200	0.533	1.00
Carlos Beltran	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0.00
Jose Cruz Jr	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.200	0.200	0.400	0.600
Ricky Ledee	7	3	1	0	0	1	1	2	0.429	0.500	0.571	1.071	2.00
Bernie Williams	6	3	1	0	0	1	1	1	0.500	0.571	0.667	1.238	1.00

This guy’s a mixed bag, he’s been very successful with some P.R. hitters and just awful against others. I think he’ll only be used to pitch to a few hitters, but not more than one or two innings like he’s been used previously, especially given the increase in pitch couts for the second round.

P.R. vs. Duaner Sanchez

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Yadier Molina	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Ivan Rodriguez	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
Javier Valentin	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Alex Cintron	6	2	1	0	1	3	1	0	0.333	0.429	1.000	1.429	0.00
Ruben Gotay	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Eduardo Perez	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000
Carlos Beltran	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Jose Cruz Jr	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.000	1.000	0.000	1.000	0.00
Ricky Ledee	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0.500	0.000	0.500	0.00
Alexis Rios	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Bernie Williams	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000

Another mixed bag, but he han’t pitched enough to these guys to draw conclusions. Alex Cintron looks like he has Duaner figured out though.

The Puerto Rican rotation is full of unknowns: its composed of two established major league starters (Javier Vazquez and Joel Piñeiro), lots of borderline major league pitchers and minor leaguers. So hitter vs. pitcher data is very scarce.

D.R. vs. Javier Vazquez

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Alberto Castillo	5	2	1	0	0	2	1	1	0.400	0.500	0.600	1.100	1.000
Albert Pujols	13	5	2	0	1	4	0	3	0.385	0.385	0.769	1.154
David Ortiz	12	4	1	0	1	2	0	3	0.333	0.333	0.667	1.000
Placido Polanco	30	10	1	0	0	1	2	2	0.333	0.375	0.367	0.742	1.000
Miguel Tejada	14	6	1	0	1	4	2	0	0.429	0.500	0.714	1.214	0.000
Alfonso Soriano	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.333	0.333	0.333	0.667
Ronnie Belliard	23	5	2	1	0	3	2	4	0.217	0.280	0.391	0.671	2.000
Adrian Beltre	20	10	3	0	1	2	0	3	0.500	0.500	0.800	1.300
Jose Reyes	10	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.300	0.300	0.500	0.800
Vladimir Guerrero	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.200	0.333	0.200	0.533	2.000
Moises Alou	22	7	2	1	0	1	3	3	0.318	0.400	0.500	0.900	1.000
Juan Encarnacion	9	7	4	0	0	2	1	4	0.368	0.429	0.579	1.008	4.000
Wily Mo Pena	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Pedro Feliz	15	4	0	0	0	0	2	3	0.267	0.353	0.267	0.620	1.500
Willy Taveras	7	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.286	0.375	0.286	0.661	0.000

The D.R. players have hit Vazquez really, really well. If those guys hit Vazquez like they’ve done in the majors, the game could turn into a blow out really quickly. When you see that Castillo has hit well off him, you know it can get ugly.

D.R. vs. Dicky Gonzalez

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
Alfonso Soriano	3	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0.333	0.333	0.667	1.000
Vladimir Guerrero	6	1	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.167	0.167	0.667	0.833
Moises Alou	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

There’s not much to say, Dicky hasn’t really faced anyone in this lineup much.

D.R. vs Fernando Cabrera

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
Placido Polanco	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Miguel Tejada	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Not much to say here either.

D.R. vs. J.C. Romero

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
Alberto Castillo	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Juan Brito	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
David Ortiz	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.000	0.333	0.000	0.333	1.00
Placido Polanco	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000
Miguel Tejada	6	1	1	0	0	2	3	0	0.167	0.444	0.333	0.778	0.00
Alfonso Soriano	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.000	0.750	0.000	0.750	0.00
Ronnie Belliard	6	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0.500	0.571	0.667	1.238	1.00
Vladimir Guerrero	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0.500	0.000	0.500	0.00
Juan Encarnacion	6	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.167	0.167	0.167	0.333
Pedro Feliz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Has faced a lot of the guys on the team, but not too many times. Polanco and Belliard have done the best against him and Tejada has been successful getting on base vs. him.

D.R. vs. Jose Santiago

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
David Ortiz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Placido Polanco	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Miguel Tejada	4	3	0	0	1	4	0	0	0.750	0.750	1.500	2.250
Alfonso Soriano	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Vladimir Guerrero	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.250	0.000	0.250
Moises Alou	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Juan Encarnacion	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Pedro Feliz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Only Tejada stands out against Santiago. But he hasn’t faced them a lot and has yet to face guys like Pujols and Beltre.

D.R. vs. Kiko Calero

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SO/BB
David Ortiz	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0.500	0.000	0.500	0.00
Placido Polanco	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Miguel Tejada	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Alfonso Soriano	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Adrian Beltre	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Vladimir Guerrero	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.000	0.500	0.000	0.500	1.00
Moises Alou	3	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.667	0.750	1.000	1.750	0.00
Juan Encarnacion	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Pedro Feliz	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000

Alou stands out in 3 at bats, while Beltre has been horrible against him in 8 at bats.

D.R. vs. Pedro Feliciano

	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
Placido Polanco	2	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	0.500	0.667	2.000	2.667
Alfonso Soriano	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.500	0.500	0.500	1.000
Adrian Beltre	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Vladimir Guerrero	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0.500	0.500	1.000	1.500
Juan Encarnacion	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.667	0.667	0.667	1.333

The toal opposite of the other P.R. pitchers, the Dominican hitters he has faced have been really successful against him.

If these are indeed the pitchers used, it looks like the D.R. has the edge, especially with the increase in pitch limits, which will allow guys like Colon and Batista go deeper into games and the D.R. to rely less on the bullpen guys that have been inconsistent versus P.R. hitters.

Vazquez has been horrible versus D.R. hitters and the rest of the P.R. bullpen hasn’t faced the D.R. hitters enough times to draw trends from the numbers. This is mainly due to the fact that P.R. pitchers don’t have much MLB experience. Romero and Calero are the only regular MLB bullpen guys on the team, and they seem to have success against some of the Dominican players, but again only in very limited at bats.