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Fun With Numbers: 2015 Edition

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Number of HR hit since start of 2014 season...

 

Joe Mauer-5

Madison Bumgarner-5

spinowner Ft Myers Mighty Mussels

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Here's a thought about a different type of number:

Byron Buxton has worn number 7 at every stop in the minors. What number will be on his back when he makes the big club? I wonder if he'd be willing to wear 07 and if there's any rule that would disallow that.

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Here's a thought about a different type of number:

Byron Buxton has worn number 7 at every stop in the minors. What number will be on his back when he makes the big club? I wonder if he'd be willing to wear 07 and if there's any rule that would disallow that.

Why??!!! Who wears 7 now??? ;)

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Matt Holiday has played 42 games for St Louis this year. He has reached base safely in all of them.

Pitchers are having a holiday.

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Ricky Nolaso leads Twins starters in K/9.

 

If you like FIP, he leads Twins starters in that too.

 

Just ignore the WHIP column though.

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I don't know if, as a general rule, people like Michael Tonkin. I guess he hasn't really pitched enough this year to draw much attention, but I was doing some math (yeah, right, me doing math for the fun of it...lol) concerning all the Twins pitchers; that drew my attention to Tonkin more than anyone else. I was just a little surprised since yes, while he's only pitched 7 innings, he's picked up 7 strikeouts and his strikeout to walk ratio is 7.00, leading all Twins pitchers with the exception of Glen Perkins. Yes, even Phil Hughes (well, I did say he's only thrown 7 innings, but...). His WHIP looks good, too, at 1.43. Considering all that, he should be pretty good...but unfortunately, the good news ends there. His ERA stands at 5.14, and that isn't pretty at all.

 

But considering that, I still didn't think much at first since Brian Duensing and Tim Stauffer (surprise!!) both have worse ERAs, and Ricky Nolasco, who currently leads the team in wins, has an ERA of 5.12. Trevor May (and yes, I could even include Phil Hughes) isn't much better. So what's the deal?

 

Well, like I said, I was doing math. (Reading stats is not math, by the way. :)) I wanted to know every pitcher's runs per walks/hits ratio. I'm not the most stats geeky person in the world, so this may be a stat I can see by looking at player's Baseball Reference pages, but as it is, I multiplied WHIP by 9 and then divided ERA by that (I suppose I could abbreviate it to WH9 - is that on their stats pages, btw?). I have a feeling that there's a faster way to do this, but whatever. I got the necessary data.

 

So this is what I came up with. I'll just say that this so-called runs per walks/hits ratio stat thingy can be abbreviated to RWH to make it easier. It might be a kind of stupid stat to look at, but I found it to be sort of interesting, nonetheless. It's probably not important. I guess you could say it's a sort of trust stat. :) Anyway, Perkins had the best RWH, at 0.14, which isn't surprising, or we wouldn't all laugh about how he likes to tease us. The team's RWH is currently 0.32, and the worst players were 0.40. Those were Tim Stauffer and Michael Tonkin. I wasn't surprised about Tim Stauffer at all, and I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised about Michael Tonkin, all things considered. But it was interesting.

 

Now, I'm not saying that Tonkin is as bad as Stauffer. I'm sure that his RWH would go down if he could get more innings under his belt, and while he sure hasn't been too good at keeping runners from scoring, of course that could have something to do with his fielders. Looking at stats doesn't tell you much about that scenario. Also, most importantly, his WHIP is considerably lower than Stauffer's, at 1.43 while Stauffer's is 2.28. But we'll see what happens.

 

Oh, and another thing I noticed is that Aaron Thompson is our only pitcher with more losses than wins (1). Could we have said that about any given pitcher last year? :)

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Here's a thought about a different type of number:

Byron Buxton has worn number 7 at every stop in the minors. What number will be on his back when he makes the big club? I wonder if he'd be willing to wear 07 and if there's any rule that would disallow that.

How about 007 ? Buxton, Byron Buxton.

 

 

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RandBall ‏@RandBall  · 16m16 minutes ago 
#mntwins have scored 103 runs in innings 1-3 this year and 105 in innings 4-9

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The Tigers' Shane Greene started in Anaheim tonight, and only got 5 outs. He gave up 5 HRs to get those 5 outs.

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May, 1990 - according to ESPN, that's the last time the Twins had 20 wins in a month.

 

If I knew how to do a poll, I'd ask how many TD readers were born after that date!

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May, 1990 - according to ESPN, that's the last time the Twins had 20 wins in a month.

 

If I knew how to do a poll, I'd ask how many TD readers were born after that date!

Correction--I think that was the last time the Twins won 20 games in May. They were 22-6 in June, 1991. There may have been others (2006, maybe?) but that one I know for sure.

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@MillerStrib: Last time Twins entered June with AL's best record: 1977 (29-17, 3 games ahead of White Sox).

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Correction--I think that was the last time the Twins won 20 games in May. They were 22-6 in June, 1991. There may have been others (2006, maybe?) but that one I know for sure.

 

Thanks for the correction.  I thought I'd read that somewhere here before.  According to BBRef, the Twins actually won 22 games in June 1991.

 

The ESPN piece is badly worded (and I didn't do a good job of reading.  In one paragraph, they say that the Twins can have their best calendar month since June 2006.  But in the next paragraph they say "Sunday the Twins will have a chance for their first 20-win month since May 1990."

 

I suspect the writer should have said for their first 20-win MAY since May 1990.

 

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@MillerStrib: Last time Twins entered June with AL's best record: 1977 (29-17, 3 games ahead of White Sox).

Ah, yes. The Bostock/Carew/Hisle year. That offense was fun. They held up fairly well until the middle of August and then started playing all the teams with the best records and faded away.

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Brian Dozier is tied for second in the Major Leagues with 28 XBH, 1 behind Josh Donaldson

Josh Donaldson was my preseason pick for AL MVP.

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