On average, the 2015-17 group had a wRC+ that was 24 points worse than it was over the first half after one week, and 34 points worse after two weeks. There does appear to be a notable difference in recent seasons with the new timed format. I’ve spent the past week manually pulling stats from Fangraphs to see how players in the Derby have done in the first half of the season and then compared it to their performance in the first calendar week following the break, first two calendar weeks after, first month and entire second half. Are the eight players competing this year destined for a slow start to the second half, or is there nothing to worry about? With that in mind, I wanted to find out whether players are actually worse after competing in the home run derby. So, back to Judge: He went from being almost twice as productive as an average hitter to being, well … A 100 wRC+ is league average, and as Fangraphs says, “a 125 wRC+ means a player created 25% more runs than a league average hitter would have in the same number of plate appearances.”) (Note: wRC+ is Weighted Runs Created Plus, a fancy metric that quantifies a player’s total offensive value.
Neither cited performance as a reason they wouldn’t be attending, but I think we can all agree that was a factor in Judge’s decision.
His teammate Giancarlo Stanton will also sit it out, putting frowns on children’s (and adults’) faces all over the country. Unfortunately, Judge will not be defending his title this year.
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