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Rick Ankiel

Cardinals Career team 1999–2009
Number #16
Position Center Fielder
Bats Left
Throws Left
Age 47
Height 6' 1"
Weight 208 lbs
Birth Place Fort Pierce, FL
Born Jul 19, 1979

Key Insights

2013
One club he looks forward to seeing on the schedule

Against the arms currently on the MIN, Ankiel has hit .321 and slugged .714 over 28 plate appearances, his best of any club.

9 hits, 3 home runs and 3 strikeouts, against a .399 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

Carlos Villanueva has struck Ankiel out 8 times in 17 plate appearances, 47.1% of everything between them.

8 strikeouts in 17 plate appearances.
He cannot get the bat on this opponent's pitches

Ankiel swings through more against Ian Snell than against anyone else he has faced this often: 7.5% of the swings between them come up empty.

19 plate appearances between them. 92nd percentile of the 10 matchups on his own record.
The long balls in this matchup all go one way

Ankiel has hit 3 home runs off Bronson Arroyo, one every 7.0 plate appearances they have shared.

21 career plate appearances against him.
Nobody has seen more of him than this opponent

No pitcher has seen Ankiel more often than Roy Oswalt: 22 plate appearances, in which Ankiel has hit .238/.273/.238.

5 hits, 0 home runs and 3 strikeouts across 22 plate appearances.
One club he never seems to get going against

Against the arms currently on the STL, Ankiel has hit .163 and slugged .186 over 48 plate appearances, his worst of any club.

7 hits, 0 home runs and 12 strikeouts, against a .399 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Jul 19, 1979
Birth Place Fort Pierce, FL
Height 6' 1"
Weight 208 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Left/Left