I was just having a look at the performance of the Twins' affiliates and their collective numbers. Something interesting popped up. In this organization, from Beloit to the Twins, each teams' record is a reflection of the team's pitching and not of its hitting. And more specifically WHIP. Hitting helps (and that is what mainly separates the Snappers from the Red Wings) but pitching is the main driver (and WHIP correlates more with Ws than any other simple pitching measure) ... Thought I'd share



TEAM

RECORD

WHIP

OPS



Rock Cats

18 W 12 L

1.168

0.662



Snappers

17 W 13 L

1.294

0.736



Red Wings

12 W 16 L

1.303

0.651



Miracle

11 W 19 L

1.376

0.641



Twins

7 W 20 L

1.429

0.658

Great data.
Funny . . . or telling . . . how it all correlates.