Mat Latos vs. National League Central
Mat Latos has not played a lot in Great American Ball Park. In his career he has only played in this hitter friendly park twice, once in 2011 and the other time in 2009. He has only given up 1 home run in 14 innings and recorded 9 strike outs. After watching a few videos of Latos pitch in 2011 for San Diego Padres I have to say I am very impressed by the kid and what he can do. His curveball is amazing and his other pitches set it up very nicely. One very big bonus to this trade is that he is a National League pitcher so there will not have to be any adjustments made through that. Although he will be playing in some hitter friendly parks more now instead of the nice pitcher parks he might be used to, I have read that he did just as good on the road as he did at home. I can’t wait to see what he can do in GABP in the future.
Mat Latos in Great American Ball Park
Rk Date Tm Opp Rslt AppDec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str BF AB 1 2011-08-12 SDP CIN L 3-5 GS-7 7.0 4 2 2 1 5 0 111 71 26 24 2 2009-07-29 SDP CIN W 7-1 GS-7 W 7.0 1 1 1 1 4 1 86 57 23 21
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Generated 12/18/2011.
Friday, August 12, 2011, at Great American Ball Park [play by play and box score]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009, Great American Ball Park [play by play and box score]
I have included stats of Mat Latos career against National League Central teams so then we can see what teams he has done well against. The Brewers and Cardinals gave him some rough times in his career so far so hopefully with the Reds this will turn around and he will be able to pitch well against them.
W L ERA GS IP H R ER HR BB SO WHIP SO/9 SO/BB
Chicago Cubs 2 2 3.47 4 23.1 21 11 9 1 8 30 1.243 11.6 3.75
Cincinnati Reds 1 1 2.70 3 20.0 9 6 6 3 4 16 0.650 7.2 4.00
Houston Astros 3 1 2.30 4 27.1 16 7 7 1 4 25 0.732 8.2 6.25
Milwaukee Brewers 0 2 4.63 2 11.2 13 6 6 3 5 8 1.543 6.2 1.60
Pittsburgh Pirates 2 0 2.84 3 19.0 16 6 6 2 5 19 1.105 9.0 3.80
St. Louis Cardinals 1 2 10.80 3 13.1 23 16 16 1 5 9 2.100 6.1 1.80
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Here are his career stats against the St. Louis Cardinals players.
AB H HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
Rafael Furcal 14 5 0 2 1 4 .357 .400 .357 .757
Ryan Theriot 11 2 0 0 1 2 .182 .250 .182 .432
Lance Berkman 9 2 0 1 0 3 .222 .222 .222 .444
Albert Pujols 6 2 0 2 2 0 .333 .500 .500 1.000
Yadier Molina 7 3 0 3 0 2 .429 .429 .571 1.000
Jon Jay 5 3 0 0 1 0 .600 .667 .800 1.467
Matt Holliday 5 2 0 4 0 0 .400 .400 .400 .800
Skip Schumaker 4 2 0 0 1 0 .500 .600 .750 1.350
Chris Carpenter 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Allen Craig 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Daniel Descalso 3 1 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .667 1.000
Kyle Lohse 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Total 70 22 0 12 6 13 .314 .368 .386 .754
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And here are his career stats against Milwaukee Brewers players.
AB H HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
Nyjer Morgan 7 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Ryan Braun 4 0 0 0 2 0 .000 .333 .000 .333
Prince Fielder 6 1 0 0 0 1 .167 .167 .167 .333
Corey Hart 5 1 0 0 1 1 .200 .333 .400 .733
Casey McGehee 4 1 0 0 2 0 .250 .500 .250 .750
Rickie Weeks 6 4 2 3 0 0 .667 .667 1.667 2.333
Yuniesky Betancourt 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Craig Counsell 3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000
Yovani Gallardo 3 1 1 1 0 1 .333 .333 1.333 1.667
Carlos Gomez 3 1 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 1.000 1.333
Jerry Hairston 3 1 1 1 0 0 .333 .333 1.333 1.667
Jonathan Lucroy 3 2 0 1 0 0 .667 .667 1.000 1.667
Zack Greinke 2 1 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 .500 1.000
Josh Wilson 2 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 1.000
Randy Wolf 2 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000
Total 56 14 4 6 5 9 .250 .311 .536 .847
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Here are the stats of Mat Latos career in National League Central ball parks. I am hoping Bronson Arroyo and the other Reds pitchers will help Latos out with how to pitch well in these parks in 2012, especially in Busch Stadium and Miller Park or Dusty Baker will just have to be very careful of when he plays him when they play in those parks. In 58.4 innings (10 GS) he gave up 6 home runs in these parks while getting 54 strike outs.
Split W L ERA GS IP H R ER HR BB SO WHIP SO/9 SO/BB
CHC-Wrigley Fld 1 0 2.57 1 7.0 5 2 2 0 1 10 0.857 12.9 10.00
CIN-GreatAmer BP 1 0 1.93 2 14.0 5 3 3 1 2 9 0.500 5.8 4.50
HOU-MinuteMaidPk 1 1 3.14 2 14.1 6 5 5 1 2 15 0.558 9.4 7.50
MIL-Miller Pk 0 1 6.35 1 5.2 7 4 4 1 2 4 1.588 6.4 2.00
PIT-PNC Pk 2 0 2.77 2 13.0 11 4 4 2 3 14 1.077 9.7 4.67
STL-Busch Stad 0 2 25.31 2 5.1 17 15 15 1 5 2 4.125 3.4 0.40
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