K-Marlins
Interestingly, the Florida Marlins have struck out 8 or more times in the last 13 games. That’s the longest streak at least since 1956.
Thanks to Whiz from Stat of the Day for crunching the numbers.
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Which MLB teams do better on the road?
Right now, I’m fixated on how major league teams do on the road. Mostly, I’m sure, because for the first half, the Cubs were having a hard time doing that. I will give them credit though. They’ve managed to play themselves up to four under .500 which ain’t great but is a helluva lot better than they were (thanks, Brew Crew!).
Right now, there are five teams who have a better record as visitors than they do in front of their friendly crowds at home. The Angels actually have the best record in all of MLB as visitors with a pretty dang amazing .664 winning percentage.
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Away |
Home |
|||||||
|
W |
L |
W |
L |
Diff |
||||
San Francisco Giants |
26 |
30 |
0.464 |
20 |
34 |
0.370 |
0.094 |
|
Philadelphia Phillies |
31 |
26 |
0.544 |
29 |
34 |
0.460 |
0.084 |
|
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim |
38 |
21 |
0.644 |
31 |
21 |
0.596 |
0.048 |
|
St Louis Cardinals |
31 |
25 |
0.554 |
31 |
26 |
0.544 |
0.010 |
|
Kansas City Royals |
26 |
30 |
0.464 |
26 |
30 |
0.464 |
0.000 |
But it’s the San Fran Giants who have the largest difference between the two. Though their visitor record of .464 is really nothing to write home about, it’s a whole lot better than their home record of 20-34 (.370), a .094 difference best in the majors.
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Patterson at the bottom
Andy from Stat of the Day is probably stating the obvious but claims that Corey Patterson is an “awful” player at least when it comes to offense. Among players with 200+ at-bats, He ranks last in batting average (.183 to second place Eric Byrnes’ .209) and ranks last in OBP (a paltry .216 to Kenji Johjima’s .252, a .32 difference).
The Cubs traded him in January ‘06 after a miserable 2005 campaign not much better than this year’s (.215/.254/.348). In the two years in Baltimore, Patterson picked it up slightly, hitting .276 and .269 and even managing to steal a combined 83 bases. Of course, knowing us Cub fans, we wondered if it was a management issue then.
Looks like Corey is back to his old ways again.
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Home Sweet Home for Twinkie Hurlers
I was chatting with my friend Joy the Sox fan over lunch today and she passed on an interesting tidbit about the Twins (a team, by the way, she despises).
Minnesota is currently a half game out of first place with a 59-47. Yet, their pitching staff show a wide gap in their performance on the road and at home. Their ERA at home is third in the majors at a nifty 3.19. When they travel, however, it slides all the way down to 28th in the MLB at a miserable 5.52 ERA.
That results in a 36-19 home, 23-28 away record for the year.
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U of I prof Alan Nathan talks physics with MLB.com
University of Illinois Physics professor Alan Nathan was interviewed by MLB.com’s Cory Schwartz on the topic of the Pitch F/X tool. We interviewed Nathan for Baseball Zealot Radio last year and I’m happily surprised to say that some of stuff sunk in and I recognize some of his talking points.
You can see Schwartz’ interview with Alan Nathan at MLB.com’s web site.
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Key to Tampa’s success?
Interesting piece of trivia. Every game so far in 2008 by the Tampa Bay Rays has been started by a pitcher who is 26 years old or younger. Andy from Baseball Reference’s Stat of the Day did the math for the whole league.
Pittsburgh is up there with 72. On the other side of the coin, Seattle has just 16 such games.
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Rays’ getting defensive?
Just one reason for the Tampa Bay Rays upturn this year… their much improved defense according to Nate Silver of Baseball Prospectus.
The Rays have gone from having one of the worst defenses in baseball history to one of the best. In fact their Defensive Efficiency Rating of .720 ranks second in baseball, just a couple ticks behind the Oakland A’s. This degree of improvement is literally without precedent. The Rays have improved their DER by 58 points this year, which is the largest year-over-year improvement that we’ve ever tracked.
The 2008 Marlins are #9 on the list as most improved.
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Scorekeeping 101
Here’s an pretty cool web site I ran across tonight. Coach Bobby B has an extensive tutorial on his web site on how to score a baseball game. I realize I’m preaching to the choir since most reading this site probably have a pretty good idea how to do this but it’s interesting and good resource for those newbies learning the game.
Those of us in the Illowa APBA League have a lot of practice scoring games. Unlike other fantasy baseball, APBA is a simulation game. Actual games get played, stats are accumulated and therefore we need to score them.
There are ten managers in our league and we use ten different ways of scorekeeping. Everyone’s way is different. Some are incredibly thorough (bordering on anal). Others can fit six games on one side of a sheet of paper.
Anyway, for those who want to brush up on scorekeeping, take a look at How to Score Baseball.
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Retrosheet upgrades their web site
Good news for stathounds. Retrosheet.org has updated their website. In addition to making changes to their user interface, they’ve added to their database.
The site looks great moving from a frame-based format to a top menubar complete with some new snazzy graphics.
More importantly, they’ve added some more seasons in their quest to add more play-by-play data from past years. According to David Smith from Retrosheet, seasons that have been added include:
- 1921 NL
- 1953 NL
- 1954 AL (NL was released earlier)
- 1955 both leagues
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Yankees leftfielders not always big on the stats…
…at least batting averages, that is. Johnny Damon may be changing that, though.
Steve L from Baseball Reference’s Stat of the Day blog points out an interesting stat about the New York Yankees. He says leftfielder Damon who is currently hitting .326 may be on his way to a unusual season from a Yankee perspective.
When was the last time a Yankee leftfielder played in 100 plus games and hit more than .320? Steve did the math and you would have to go back fifteen years to 1993 when Dion James did it. James hit .332 in 115 games.
Ok, that’s believable but before James, you would have to go all the way back to 1927 when Bob Meusel hit .337 in 137 games.
An unusual occurrence indeed.
Happy birthday to the Stat of the Day blog, by the way, which celebrated its first birthday one week ago. The SOTD blog, hosted by Baseball Reference is a fun diversion for me where folks research statistical oddities, ironies, and other interesting fun facts. Check them out.
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