The Cubs Offense So Far

What a road trip. 10 games, only two wins, merely 28 runs scored. The Cubs were actually in the Philadelphia games, but walked away with three straight losses after taking the opener.

The trip closed out with a second straight, but still rare, rough outing from Sean Marshall and news of a blister shutting down Kerry Wood.

Now the first place Brewers are meeting the team at Wrigley for a four-game set. Doh.

Meanwhile, Jeff Baker is set to return from the DL. He'll probably take Wood's spot since the Cubs currently have an extra pitcher in the form of Casey Coleman. Reed Johnson won't be back quite yet, thanks to being hit in the head by a pitch while rehabbing. Alfonso Soriano is supposed to be a few days away, meaning the Cubs' offense will be back to full strength before long.

Not that "full strength" is going to overwhelm anybody, but it will be better than what we've seen over the past two weeks. Heck, regression to the mean would predict an impending improvement in offense.

So far

For no reason in particular (beyond wanting to do something with the massive amounts of 2011 pitches I've classified), let's take a look at some of the Cubs' hitters via PITCHf/x. There's just about enough data to talk about pitch type performance at the hitter level, at least in a few cases.

These tables are sortable.

Hitter	Fastball/Sinker	Change/Splitter	Curveball	Slider/Cutter
Dewitt	60%	13%	6%	16%
Campana	58%	15%	10%	14%
Barney	58%	9%	8%	18%
Fukudome	57%	15%	9%	13%
Colvin	56%	12%	13%	18%
Byrd	56%	11%	9%	21%
Ramirez	56%	10%	8%	20%
Hill	55%	12%	10%	11%
Castro	52%	10%	10%	23%
Pena	50%	16%	11%	16%
Soto	49%	12%	17%	22%
Johnson	47%	9%	11%	17%
Soriano	45%	7%	17%	24%
Baker	44%	12%	8%	24%
Zambrano	41%	15%	21%	21%

Hitter	Pit.	Swing	Whiff	Foul	B:CS	IWZ	Chase	Watch
Soriano	629	0.566	0.272	0.402	2.3	0.442	0.479	0.303
Pena	872	0.453	0.316	0.377	3.7	0.459	0.242	0.221
Zambrano	125	0.600	0.307	0.427	4.1	0.464	0.478	0.111
Soto	628	0.393	0.308	0.259	2.1	0.533	0.191	0.418
Byrd	610	0.556	0.218	0.381	2.2	0.548	0.377	0.298
Hill	229	0.402	0.359	0.152	1.7	0.546	0.250	0.352
Baker	200	0.485	0.165	0.309	2.2	0.505	0.303	0.272
Colvin	311	0.531	0.261	0.388	2.3	0.469	0.382	0.267
Ramirez	735	0.546	0.180	0.357	3.0	0.536	0.337	0.224
Dewitt	216	0.463	0.090	0.340	1.6	0.546	0.276	0.356
Fukudome	796	0.349	0.158	0.363	1.8	0.510	0.167	0.387
Castro	925	0.479	0.140	0.348	1.9	0.529	0.317	0.353
Barney	902	0.429	0.085	0.380	1.3	0.573	0.314	0.443
Campana	124	0.403	0.220	0.300	1.9	0.484	0.266	0.333
Johnson	132	0.432	0.140	0.439	1.6	0.576	0.304	0.475

Hitter	Pit.	nkSLG	GB%	LD%	FB%	PU%	HR/FL%
Soriano	629	0.741	31%	16%	44%	8.6%	17.1%
Pena	872	0.570	39%	21%	31%	9.9%	14.5%
Zambrano	125	0.700	55%	25%	20%	0.0%	11.1%
Soto	628	0.505	42%	21%	28%	8.4%	7.5%
Byrd	610	0.529	53%	29%	13%	5.1%	5.3%
Hill	229	0.511	44%	27%	22%	6.7%	4.5%
Baker	200	0.588	51%	33%	14%	2.0%	4.2%
Colvin	311	0.211	47%	12%	30%	10.5%	4.2%
Ramirez	735	0.446	37%	23%	30%	10.8%	4.1%
Dewitt	216	0.491	37%	21%	28%	14.0%	3.6%
Fukudome	796	0.477	55%	23%	20%	1.5%	3.5%
Castro	925	0.458	56%	19%	20%	4.8%	1.1%
Barney	902	0.401	50%	23%	20%	7.2%	1.1%
Campana	124	0.375	67%	21%	13%	0.0%	0.0%
Johnson	132	0.750	42%	25%	25%	8.3%	0.0%