Is Feliciano A Lefty Specialist?

Pedro Feliciano is usually given the ball by Jerry Manual to pitch to a tough lefty, but lets look deeper into the stats.

The most basic stat to measure a left handed specialist by is BAA by left handers, and Feliciano's is where it should be at .149, allowing 10 hits in 67 ABs against him, which is good, and I will compare hsi number sto JC Romero's 2008 season, where he was considered one of the best left handed specialists in baseball.

Pedro Feliciano has allowed a Slugging Percentage of .299 on those hits, which I know sounds bad, but considering its over 10 hits in 67 ABs means that those ten hits have been pretty good, or for the Mets pretty bad. He out of those ten hits has allowed 3 home runs, which means that if Johan Santana has the same hits to homers ratio as him, he would have allowed 22 home runs this year, and for a comparison the league leader in home runs allowed is 17, so Pedro Feliciano allows WAY to many home runs, and this is against lefties only. The 7 other hits were a double, and 6 singles, he has allowed 7 of his batters to score, which is dispicable for a left handed specialist.

In 0-2 counts he has allowed 2 hits, and one of them is a home run, which for any relief pitcher is just bad, as 0-2 late in games needs to equal an out, or you will lose like the Mets tend to when Feliciano is in a game.

Now JC Romero in all of 2008 allowed a .102 BAA or 10-98. Of those ten hits, only one was a home run, ALL YEAR. He allowed 3 extra base hits total, for a .153 Slugging Percentage which is almost lower than Feliciano's BAA for lefties, so this shows us why Feliciano has been so ineffective.