Offseason Notes for October 11th

A big part of Mark Reynolds’ low contact rate is probably from how he holds the wrong end of the bat.

This edition of Offseason Notes contains the following:

1. Arizona Fall League Action
2. Three True Outcome Leader- and Laggardboards for 2011
3. Mexican Winter League Rosters, Sorted by Parent Club

Arizona Fall League
Arizona Fall League Action
This is the time in the show when we look at Arizona Fall League action.

Notable Performances
Here are some notable performances from Monday’s AFL games:

• Ranger prospect Mike Olt, who hit two home runs in a single game last week, did that same thing again yesterday. If my calculations are correct — and they’re frequently not — but if they are, Olt now has four homers and five strikeouts in 20 plate appearances. And two walks, also. Which, that means 55% of his plate appearances have ended in one of the three true outcomes. For comparison’s sake, this year’s Three True Outcome leader was… uh, actually I don’t know.
• Wait a second, I’m gonna make a Three True Outcome leader- and laggardboard.
• Okay, I did that.

Leaderboard: Three True Outcomes
Three True Outcome Leaderboard
Here are the Three True Outcome leaders among 2011’s qualified hitters:

Three True Outcome Laggardboard
Here are the Three True Outcome laggards among same:

Regarding wRC+ and Those Leaderboards
Here’s the average wRC+ among the top-10 laggards: 89.

Regarding wRC+ and Those Leaderboards, Part II
Here’s the average wRC+ among the top-10 leaders: 130.

A Fact
All things being equal, it’s probably better for a player, offensively speaking, to skew towards the top of the TTO leaderboard.

Another Country Heard From: Mexican Winter League
Important Information
Bearded Greek-American* Harry Pavlidis reminded the world via Twitter yesternight that various other winter leagues are beginning soon.

*Redundant, yes.

Important Information, Part II
Here’s the aforementioned Tweet, complete with Important Information™:

Important Information, Part III
As a service to the Republic, the present author presents the following — a list of all the affiliated ballplayers in the Mexican Pacific League, sorted by parent club and then birth date.

First, here are the MPL teams and their abbreviations:

AGU: Águilas de Mexicali
ALG: Algodoneros de Guasave
CAN: Cañeros de Los Mochis
MAY: Mayos de Navojoa
NAR: Naranjeros de Hermosillo
TOM: Tomateros de Culiacán
VEN: Venados de Mazatlán
YAQ: Yaquis de Obregón

Second — and last — here are those players:

Name	Pos	DOB	MEX	MLB
Jesus Loya	OF	19920615	NAR	BOS
Sergio Burruel	C	19910722	NAR	CHC
Oswaldo Martinez	P	19880925	YAQ	CHC
Hung-Wen Chen	P	19860203	VEN	CHC
Blake Parker	P	19850619	NAR	CHC
James Avery	P	19840610	ALG	CIN
Jason Rice	P	19860513	NAR	CLE
Alejandro Barraza	P	19901025	CAN	COL
Garrett Parcell	P	19840712	ALG	FLA
Luis Durango	LF	19860423	YAQ	HOU
Federico Castaneda	P	19840126	TOM	KC
Ricky Alvarez	OF	19890207	AGU	LAA
Andrew Romine	3B	19851224	VEN	LAA
Francisco Rodriguez	P	19830226	CAN	LAA
Gil Velazquez	SS	19791017	AGU	LAA
Juan Noriega	P	19900903	CAN	LAD
Carlos Vazquez	P	19910903	VEN	NYM
Juan Gamboa	SS	19910418	CAN	NYM
Marcos Camarena	P	19900908	TOM	NYM
Pat Venditte	P	19850630	AGU	NYY
Jorge Vazquez	1B	19820315	TOM	NYY
Andres Avila	P	19900620	CAN	OAK
Carlos Hernandez	P	19870304	TOM	OAK
Jermaine Mitchell	OF	19841102	NAR	OAK
Adam Rosales	2B	19830520	AGU	OAK
Fabian Cota	P	19920413	CAN	PHI
Sebastian Valle	C	19900724	CAN	PHI
Rogelios Noris	LF	19890312	VEN	PIT
Ali Solis	C	19870929	TOM	SD
Carlos Sosa	OF	19830519	MAY	SD
Jermaine Curtis	2B	19870710	CAN	STL
Jose Felix	C	19880628	ALG	TEX
Luis Cruz	SS	19840210	TOM	TEX
Val Majewski	RF	19810619	NAR	TEX
Rey Gonzalez	P	19851101	ALG	TOR
Patrick McCoy	P	19880803	VEN	WSH
Zech Zinicola	P	19850302	NAR	WSH