Sunday night marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the “Jewish New Year”. So, as we’ve done with Yom Kippur and Passover, its time for another edition of “Sabbathmetrics”.
Today, we’ll look at whether 1991 first-round draft pick, two-time All-Star and “member of the tribe” Shawn Green performed better or worse on the Sabbath during his career. We parsed out all of Green’s games by Sabbath/non-Sabbath and here is what it showed:
| SABBATHMETRICS: SHAWN GREEN | |||
| SABBATH? | NO | YES | TOTAL |
| GAMES | 1492 | 459 | 1951 |
| PA | 6103 | 1860 | 7963 |
| AB | 5427 | 1655 | 7082 |
| R | 877 | 252 | 1129 |
| H | 1561 | 442 | 2003 |
| 2B | 336 | 109 | 445 |
| 3B | 25 | 10 | 35 |
| HR | 256 | 72 | 328 |
| RBI | 816 | 254 | 1070 |
| BB | 568 | 176 | 744 |
| SO | 996 | 319 | 1315 |
| HBP | 63 | 17 | 80 |
| SF | 41 | 12 | 53 |
| BA | .288 | .267 | .283 |
| OBP | .359 | .341 | .355 |
| SLG | .500 | .476 | .494 |
| HR% of PA | 4.2% | 3.9% | 4.1% |
| BB% of PA | 9.3% | 9.5% | 9.3% |
| SO% of PA | 16.3% | 17.2% | 16.5% |
Green had a career 120 OPS+, but the Sabbath seemed to diminish his offense quite a bit, as he hit 21 points lower and lost 24 points on his slugging in such games. He homered slightly less often and struck out more often during Sabbath games.
I wonder if any of the tail-off might have just had something to do with wearing down by the end of the week? Of course, that’s one of the reason why Jews observer Shabbat — to recharge the spiritual and physical batteries.
That would beg the question whether offenses decline on a macro level towards the end of a week (how are we defining end of week here)
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