Billy and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month
April 06, 2010
Congratulations, Billy Les.
The Chicago State infielder "leads" our list of the worst monthly performances by Division 1 qualified batters, as sorted by OPS (minimum 40 AB):
PLAYER SCHOOL AB AVG OBP SLG OPS Billy Les Chicago State 45 0.067 0.185 0.067 0.252 Ryan Maghini Fordham 45 0.111 0.125 0.133 0.258 Luis Mena UMES 53 0.113 0.203 0.113 0.317 Nick Wiggins UMES 50 0.120 0.170 0.160 0.330 David Eldredge North Florida 58 0.138 0.219 0.138 0.357 Judah Akers Belmont 42 0.119 0.174 0.190 0.364 Derrik Zeroski Duquesne 45 0.111 0.259 0.111 0.370 Pete Cappetta Illinois 44 0.114 0.212 0.159 0.371 Chad Gough-Fortenberry Southeastern Louisiana 46 0.130 0.231 0.152 0.383 Miguel Camacho Chicago State 41 0.171 0.227 0.171 0.398 Kris Kwak North Dakota 43 0.116 0.174 0.233 0.406 Robert Abel San Francisco 55 0.127 0.169 0.236 0.406 Lamar Bridges Alabama A&M 46 0.196 0.213 0.196 0.408 Jeff Bunch North Dakota 43 0.140 0.275 0.140 0.414 Eric Brady Duke 52 0.173 0.185 0.231 0.416 Andre Harris South Carolina-Upstate 45 0.178 0.240 0.178 0.418 Bentley Christmas Charleston Southern 42 0.143 0.182 0.238 0.420 Zach Heidmann North Dakota State 43 0.186 0.239 0.186 0.425 Kyle Bubak Nebraska 41 0.122 0.255 0.171 0.426 Kyle Charron Iona 52 0.173 0.259 0.173 0.432
But wait! If a number of batters had really, really bad months of March that could only mean that there were pitchers out there who took advantage of this and posted exceptionally good months, right?
Right, but this is not that list.
Worst monthly performances by Division 1 qualified pitchers, as sorted by WHIP (minimum 13.3 IP):
PLAYER SCHOOL IP WHIP Douglas Dalley North Carolina Central 17.0 3.18 Joseph Cobb North Carolina Central 13.3 3.15 Glenn Frye North Carolina Central 19.7 3.05 Jeff Citero North Carolina Central 18.7 3.00 Sanchez Tucker Alabama A&M 15.0 2.93 Evan Abrecht Air Force 13.7 2.85 Miguel Parga Florida A&M 20.0 2.85 Kincaid Koehler Air Force 14.7 2.80 Coty Bates Cleveland State 14.3 2.79 Dennis Sherba St. Bonaventure 15.0 2.73 Drew Bowen Oral Roberts 13.3 2.70 Nick Oelker North Carolina A&T 14.3 2.65 Justin Shutt BYU 13.3 2.63 Bo Reeder East Tennessee State 13.7 2.63 Matthew Shepherd Tennessee Tech 16.0 2.63 Anthony Mannuccia Hartford 13.3 2.63 Jeremy Atkins Lafayette 15.3 2.61 James Tucker Chicago State 19.3 2.59 Kody Kasper Niagara 14.7 2.59 Jeff Walters Georgia 14.0 2.57
It's been a rough year so far for the Eagles of North Carolina Central University. They kicked off the month with a four-game set against Georgia State in which they were outscored 103-10. Those were just four of 13 consecutive games in which Eagles pitching gave up double-digit run totals.
Alas, March was not all gloom and doom for everyone. Tomorrow we'll take a look at the month’s best
performers.