When doing research for the above stat I stumbled upon the following - - 16 of 30 teams were hitting under .250 (1 of 4) going into the evening's slate of games. Last season finished with 13 teams under a .250 team batting average, 12 in 2012, 11 in 2011, 9 in 2010. Furthermore not since 2008 has the MLB has averaged more than 9 hits per game. Moral of the stat story, with so much glamor given to the homerun, if nobody is on base, it's just one run.
A nifty stat was posted by the Oakland Athletics gameday Twitter account: "(Yoenis) Cespedes is 8-for-24 (.333) with runners on compared to 3-for-23 (.130) with the bases empty" They posted this in the 9th inning trailing the Anaheim Angels by one with a man on first. Cespedes would fly out but pinch hitter John Jaso would hit a 2 run homerun to give the A's the lead and the win. Sooner or later the problematic pairing of "sabremetrics" and "moneyball" will fail. I keep choosing sooner and it keeps becoming later.
16 games, about 1/10 of the season is over for the Arizona Diamondbacks. A 7-3 loss to the New York Mets keeps the D'Backs at 4 wins on the season. I feel sorry for the anxiety that must be running through the Kirk Gibson family in regards to his job security and will stop writing about it out of respect for a man with the most memorable homerun trot of my life.
The Colorado Rockies found an improbable way to lose to the San Diego Padres Monday night. After WALKING THE BASES LOADED, a wild pitch would score the game tying run and an errant throw back to the plate would score the game winning run. Wow, just wow!
As a wrestling fan I feel obliged to share this link,
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