Chris Coghlan sets the record

by craig on Aug 10, 2009 4:11 PM EDT in News and Rumors

Chris Coghlan set the Marlins record for consecutive multihit games.

In the sixth inning Sunday against the Phillies' Jamie Moyer, Coghlan set a club record with his eighth consecutive multihit game. Coghlan singled to right, marking his second hit of the day.

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Juan Pierre twice had stretches of seven straight games with at least two hits -- Aug. 28-Sept. 7, 2004, and Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 2004. Miguel Cabrera also pulled off the feat from Aug. 6-13, 2006.

Congrats Chris!

Speaking of Chris, somewhere in doing all of this JCR started to ponder a question that really hadn't occurred to me.

Florida Marlins: Where does Chris Coghlan stand in the NL ROY race?

Read the post and see what you think. But I will say this, the young Mr. Coghlan is definitely making noise in that direction.

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I disagree on McGehee...

… he hasn’t been up in the majors long enough. Coghlan gets the edge over him, but I think Happ wins it barring a Phillies collapse(which is looking more and more likely).

Go Nevada Wolf Pack!

by BacksThePack on Aug 10, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions

I think he'd finish 3rd or 4th, at best.

The problem is that he was batting a quiet .250-.260 for a good month or so until this past week’s outburst.

There’s also the fact that he wasn’t brought up with any fanfare. He didn’t dazzle anyone in spring training or begin the season as the team’s “2B of the Future.” Instead, he was called up a month into the season and moved to an entirely different position.

I don’t think he’s a top ROY contender just yet. However, if he can keep moving his average up and hitting a timely homer here or there, he could claw his way to the top of the list. I do think it’ll require a pretty bad slump by Happ, though.

by Fishcrazy on Aug 10, 2009 5:02 PM EDT reply actions

What if

he hit the game winning home run off Happ in the last game of the season to win us the division? I would give it to him just for that.

by cpmustangs13 on Aug 11, 2009 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions

I would imagine it would help if he hit .300 for the season.

Barring a power surge, I mean. The ROY is often dependent on those kinds of milestones.

I mean, Happ’s probably got it unless he implodes. Even if the Phillies fall apart, Happ’s currently got a sub-3.00 ERA, and that’s pretty unavoidable.

Other than that… Fowler has been decent, I guess. Hard to predict what’ll happen with him — he’s got a lot of walks and a lot of steals. Voters tend to undervalue the former and overvalue the latter.

Coghlan is 80 ABs ahead of McGehee, but only 40 ahead of Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen — we’ll see how serious those differences look at the end of the season, but if we’re considering McGehee, we have to consider McCutchen, who’s been almost as good a hitter and can also steal some.

He's currently two-thirds man, one-third amazing. Which, let's face it, is still a pretty good ratio.

by 3.3seconds on Aug 11, 2009 12:30 AM EDT reply actions

I think this is a good explanation...

The Patience Index

The batters with the most total pitches seen in Monday’s games:

Sittin’ on a Dock at the Plate
Hitter Pitches
Dustin Pedroia 35
Luis Castillo 33
Ryan Sweeney 32
Jacoby Ellsbury 28
Milton Bradley 25
Victor Martinez 25
Hunter Pence 25
Nick Swisher 25
Orlando Hudson 24
Ben Zobrist 24
Chris Coghlan 24

That’s some nice company CHris was keeping Monday night.

Go Nevada Wolf Pack!

by BacksThePack on Aug 11, 2009 10:00 AM EDT reply actions

loving the fact that Coghlan is tearing it up with the team, but i gotta say that ROY award should go to Colby Rasmus of the St. Louis Cardinals, but thats ONLY because hes been playing longer.. I’ sure had Coghlan been playing since opening day he would be making space in his trophy collection by now

by xquiles21x on Aug 11, 2009 11:50 AM EDT reply actions

I dunno about that.

Rasmus has been around all season, but his numbers are weaker than Coghlan’s despite many more ABs. The only significant edge Rasmus has on Coghlan is HRs (11-6).

by Fishcrazy on Aug 11, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions