Here is a kinda scary stat....Our pitching staff has taken 74 ABs this season, and hit 4 homeruns and driven in 7 rbis. The average everyday position player in our lineup has taken about 130 ABs. If you normalize the pitcher hitting numbers to create a player that has taken 130 ABs, you get the following (130/74) = 1.756 X 4 = 7 HRs and 1.756 X 7 = 12 RBIs. Well, that homerun total is higher than any player on our team besides Alonso. The RBI total would be the 6th highest on the team - but remember, in late innings of games, pitchers are rarely given opportunities to hit with runners on base. If you projected these numbers over 500 ABs (full season) our hypothetical batter would (500/74 = 6.756 * 4 = 27 homeruns and 47 rbis.

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My takeaways:

1) Statistically speaking, our pitchers are probably better pinch hitting options than most position players on our team.

2) I believe that this "outperformance" probably has something to do with the lack of opposing team's scouting/preparation on how to pitch to our pitchers when they are batters in comparison to the rest of our lineup. I also believe, this supports the theory held by many of us that our batters are largely unable to adjust once the scouting report gets out on their strengths/weaknesses. I'm not sure if this is a preparation issues, or scouting issue, or simply talent issue, but this has been going on for a few years now so alarm bells should be going off.