Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Corbin Carroll's Wacky Game

Rookie phenom Corbin Carroll had a very rookie phenom-type game yesterday. He tripled and later scored on an error, he reached 3rd base on a strikeout, he singled with two men on, and he stole two bases only to be thrown out at home on a fielder's choice.

Inn Batter  Event     Runner  Runs  Outs
1st Carroll Triple    Perdomo .750
                      Carroll .750
    Gurriel ROE       Carroll .245
2nd Carroll Strikeout Marte   .003
                      Carroll .750
    Walker  Single    Carroll .007
4th Carroll Lineout   Carroll      1.000
6th Carroll Single    Thomas  .249
                      Marte   .250
                      Carroll .250
8th Gurriel FC        Carroll       .793
9th Carroll Strikeout Carroll      1.000

            Batting          2.253 1.997
            Baserunning      1.001  .796
            Total            3.254 2.793

Here's another breakdown of his events and the runs and outs they earned him:

Inn Event      Runs  Outs
1st Triple    1.745
2nd Strikeout  .760
4th Lineout         1.000
6th Single     .749
8th HBP              .793
    Stole 2B
    Stole 3B
9th Strikeout       1.000
Total         3.254 2.793

Carroll's triple was worth 1.745 Runs because it got Geraldo Perdomo home from 1st (.75 Runs), got him to 3rd (.75 Runs), and led to him scoring on Lourdes Gurriel Jr.'s groundball (.245 Runs). Carroll's hit by pitch was worth .793 Outs because it led to him being thrown out at home on Gurriel's fielder's choice, and .793 of the out was Carroll's fault (by 2022 percentages).

With 3 runs scored, 2 RBI, and 3 hitless at-bats, the simple formulas estimate Carroll created (3*5)/9 + (2*4)/9 = 15/9 + 8/9 = 2.556 Runs against 3 Outs. So the simple formulas seriously underrate Carroll's performance yesterday, due to the fact that he actually created 3/4 of Perdomo's run and almost all of his own in the first inning, instead of the 4/9 estimated for an RBI and 5/9 for a run scored.

Inn Event      Runs  Outs  estR  estO
1st Triple    1.745       1.000
2nd Strikeout  .760        .556 1.000
4th Lineout         1.000       1.000
6th Single     .749       1.000
8th HBP              .793
    Stole 2B
    Stole 3B
9th Strikeout       1.000       1.000
Total         3.254 2.793 2.556 3.000

Speaking of the simple formulas, Carroll is hanging in at 8th in the Simple ORA Top 10. Not mentioned above, because Carroll didn't hit one yesterday, but a home run is worth 1/12 of a Run in the simple formula.

Rk Player                Runs Outs  sORA
 1 Shohei Ohtani, LAA    75.0  265  7.64
 2 Ronald Acuna Jr., ATL 74.4  265  7.58
 3 Matt Olson, ATL       76.7  276  7.51
 4 Adolis Garcia, TEX    78.1  284  7.43
 5 Mookie Betts, LAD     72.8  266  7.39
 6 Freddie Freeman, LAD  72.1  264  7.37
 7 Will Smith, LAD       49.0  191  6.92
 8 Corbin Carroll, ARI   60.9  241  6.83
 9 Isaac Paredes, TBR    51.2  207  6.68
10 Josh Naylor, CLE      56.3  230  6.60

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