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Measuring opponents’ quality in Spring Training

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Cleveland Indians

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Mariners at Dodgers, 1:05 p.m.
Jimmy Rollins, SS
Yasiel Puig, RF
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
Howie Kendrick, 2B
Yasmani Grandal, C
Carl Crawford, LF
Juan Uribe, 3B
Andre Ethier, CF
Alex Guerrero, DH
(Clayton Kershaw, P)

By Jon Weisman

Spring Training statistics are a ride off Niagara Falls– momentarily exhilarating before the thundering, brain-soaking crash of reality. However, Baseball-Reference.com has taken a step to, I don’t know, pad your barrel. (It’s Sunday morning — sue me.)

It’s basically a novelty, but Baseball Reference provides a simple but welcome opposition quality measurement, based on the level of play last year for every batter or pitcher: 10 for Major Leaguers, 8 for Triple A, 7 for AA, 5 for High A, 4 for Low A and 3 or below for short season.

Here are the Dodgers’ 2015 Spring Training stats on Baseball Reference. A few things immediately noticeable:

  • Corey Seager’s outstanding spring has come against opponents’ quality rating of 8.6 — essentially, top minor-leaguers but a level below the Majors. It’s not surprising, given that Seager has come off the bench in all but one of his games, around the time that MLB starters have been exiting.
  • Joc Pederson’s opponents have been a bit more challenging, with a quality rating is 9.1.
  • Josh Ravin, sent to minor-league camp Saturday, retired all eight batters he faced despite facing the highest opponents’ quality rating of any Dodger reliever: 9.7 (matched by Julio Urias).

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  1. Two DH’s?

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