Since this seems to be everybody’s favorite daily feature, we will continue to provide a stat of the day on a (somewhat) daily basis. Be it in football, baseball, basketball, or even hockey (snort!) we’ll try to find some sort of enlightening measurement for you to ponder in your mundane, dreary lives that make you think that maybe death is just another part of life and the portal to a new conciousness [Ed. note: remember kids, if using a razor, it's down the road, not across the street].
Today we have a special grab bag of stats. Nothing too informative, just a some odds and ends from the season.
1. The Indians as a team were hit by a pitch 103 times. The next closest was the Yankees at 78. 78!!! That’s 25 fewer HBPs (32% more than 2nd place). Last place, the Twins, had only 34 HBPs. Weird.
2. Despite having 3 of the top 7 strikeout leaders in all of baseball including all time record setter Mark Reynolds, the Arizona Diamondbacks as a staff struck out almost 100 times fewer than the Florida Marlins. Maybe if Adam Dunn had shown up to the team earlier, the Snakes would have rallied.
3. The Cincinatti Reds had the lowest SB% of 64 and they also were in the top 5 for sacrifice hits and flies. Dusty Baker is the worst manager ever. [They scored the 23rd fewest (most?) runs in all of baseball this year, 201 fewer than Texas].
4. There is no correlation between a low GB/FB ratio and scoring runs. The Dbacks had the lowest ratio of GBs (almost one to one) and their offense was 20th in run scored. The White Sox and Red Sox were 2nd and 3rd on that list (3rd and 7th overall in RS).
5. An interesting snapshot of the season. The five teams whose pitching staffs walked the most batters are: Orioles, Pirates, Giants, Tigers and Mariners. All of those teams lick balls.
It’s because the Twins are pussies who are afraid of getting hit.
“An interesting snapshot of the season. The five teams whose pitching staffs walked the most batters are: Orioles, Pirates, Giants, Tigers and Mariners. All of those teams lick balls.”
walking the other team = not good. got it.
“1. The Indians as a team were hit by a pitch 103 times. The next closest was the Yankees at 78. 78!!! That’s 25 fewer HBPs (32% more than 2nd place). Last place, the Twins, had only 34 HBPs. Weird.”
we…are the champions…my friends-AH.
/sweet riff
we’ll keep on fighting…till the very end
/DUN, DUN, DUNNNNN!!!!
I hope that I end up as good of a writer as Dusty Baker is bad as a baseball manager. I maintain that the Reds are a team that could have been decent this season.
NickP=tyduffy?
Sparty-Yes!
so the more HBPs, the worse the team??
rekcalsa…naw man, the tribe is just chock full of lumberjacks and crab fishermen. they don’t move when some pussy ball is coming at them.
actually i think they led last year too and they were pretty decent then.
fetch–gotcha…but how do the yanks factor into that? are they just too dumb to get out of the way?
Orioles pitchers all spontaneously combust after 120 games.
Cincinnati.