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One Year Ago
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One year ago today Vladimir Guerrero Jr. played his first MLB game.
We waited and waited for that day. Vlad went 1 for 4 with a double in the ninth. He was replaced for a pinch-runner (Alen Hanson) and Hanson scored on Brandon Drury’s walk-off home run.
Vlad also made two plays at third base.
He ground out in each of his first two at bats. In his third at bat he hit a fly ball which we all though was going out. But no.
WOW VLAD!!*
— New Hampshire Fisher Cats (@FisherCats) April 27, 2019
*Ignore the last three seconds of this clip pic.twitter.com/HniXzWuSYr
I see in Kate’s recap she has Stroman (+.412 WPA), Drury (.323), Sogard (.144) and Giles (.139), but not Vlad who had a .127 WPA. Bad Kate.
If you want a reminder of the day:
| Batting | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | PA | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | Pit | Str | WPA | aLI | WPA+ | WPA- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Sogard SS | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | .394 | .444 | .636 | 1.081 | 17 | 10 | 0.140 | 1.02 | 0.167 | -0.027 |
| Justin Smoak 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .282 | .404 | .513 | .917 | 15 | 11 | -0.082 | 1.19 | 0.018 | -0.100 |
| Randal Grichuk CF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .219 | .286 | .406 | .692 | 13 | 10 | 0.009 | 1.25 | 0.096 | -0.087 |
| Rowdy Tellez DH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .234 | .315 | .500 | .815 | 18 | 10 | -0.103 | 0.94 | 0.000 | -0.103 |
| Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .250 | .250 | .500 | .750 | 17 | 9 | 0.127 | 0.99 | 0.172 | -0.044 |
| Alen Hanson PR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .225 | .167 | .392 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||
| Billy McKinney RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .237 | .289 | .355 | .644 | 10 | 9 | -0.023 | 1.00 | 0.015 | -0.038 |
| Teoscar Hernandez LF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .229 | .309 | .349 | .658 | 18 | 10 | -0.198 | 1.24 | 0.021 | -0.219 |
| Brandon Drury 2B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .182 | .226 | .352 | .578 | 14 | 9 | 0.318 | 1.67 | 0.369 | -0.051 |
| Danny Jansen C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .177 | .261 | .226 | .487 | 14 | 9 | -0.010 | 0.60 | 0.023 | -0.032 |
| Marcus Stroman P | |||||||||||||||||
| Joe Biagini P | |||||||||||||||||
| Ryan Tepera P | |||||||||||||||||
| Ken Giles P | |||||||||||||||||
| Team Totals | 33 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | .242 | .265 | .455 | .719 | 136 | 87 | 0.178 | 1.12 | 0.881 | -0.701 |