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Originally Posted by One Red Seat
There has to be some kind of mechanical flaw in Ellsbury's swing for him to popup to SS as frequently as he does.
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I ran reports on POPUP% (IF/FB %) for all AL batters with 150+ PA and all Boston Red Sox. AL POPUP% ranged from 21.9% for Mark Ellis to 1.5% for Delmon Young, with a median of 7.6%. For the Red Sox, here are the stats:
| NAME | POPUP% |
| Joe Thurston | 57.10% |
| David Ortiz | 13.00% |
| Mike Lowell | 10.60% |
| Coco Crisp | 10.30% |
| Jacoby Ellsbury | 9.30% |
| Jason Varitek | 7.00% |
| J.D. Drew | 6.90% |
| Kevin Youkilis | 6.00% |
| Dustin Pedroia | 6.00% |
| Alex Cora | 5.60% |
| Manny Ramirez | 3.40% |
| Jed Lowrie | 2.80% |
| Julio Lugo | 0.00% |
| Sean Casey | 0.00% |
| Kevin Cash | 0.00% |
| Brandon Moss | 0.00% |
| Jonathan Van Every | 0.00% |
Flaw? Yeah, he's worse than average this year, and he was a bit worse in 2007, but it's not enough for me to worry about given his high LD%.
We can't all be Manny Ramirez.
