Fun with Numbers: 2017 edition

[Blake]

 

O/U on number of games that stays true?

Based on current trends, umm, all of them?

[ashbury]

The Twins have the best record in baseball.

The Twins' magic number to clinch first place is 149^*. Let the countdown begin!

 

_{^* The traditional magic number for outright clinch would be 158, but the following site incorporates the knowledge that division rivals play each other frequently so that some wins count twice toward clinching: https://lyle.smu.edu/~olinick/riot/american_league.html}

[Oldgoat_MN]

The Minnesota Twins pitching staff has the lowest ERA in Major League Baseball.

hahahahaha

[ashbury]

The Minnesota Twins pitching staff has the lowest ERA in Major League Baseball.

hahahahaha

For once this really is Fun With Numbers!

[diehardtwinsfan]

Who had best record and best run differential in baseball after 4 games in the pool?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Who had best record and best run differential in baseball after 4 games in the pool?

The entirety of TD, I think. I don't recall a single person predicting anything under 104 wins.

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Twins are at 8.5% of their 2016 win total after playing only 3.7% of the season.

[ashbury]

Twins batters have a BABIP of .307, pitchers have a BABIP of .220. Versus a league average of .276. This helpful trend will obviously continue.

[Willihammer]

Jason Castro, with 0.5 fWAR, has, on a Fangraphs $/WAR basis, earned 1/6 of his contract.

 

Put another way, Castro is on pace to return $299.5 million in surplus contract value.

[Mike Frasier Law]

as of  today, 5 players in baseball haven't swung and missed at a pitch in the strike zone:

Joe Panik

Mekly Cabrera

Andrew Benintendi

JJ Hardy

Jorge Polanco

[Brock Beauchamp]

Going into today's game, Twins starters have 20 strikeouts.

 

Byron Buxton has 17.

[diehardtwinsfan]

 

Going into today's game, Twins starters have 20 strikeouts.

Byron Buxton has 17.

 

 

Given the nice start, this thread has been fun... until now. 

[kydoty]

Buxton went 1 for 5 today and his batting average increased by 19 points.

[Mike Frasier Law]

The twins have outscored their opponents by 20 runs this year - best in the AL.

 

Second best in the AL are the Yankees at +12.

 

This is in part because the Twins have averaged 5 runs per game, second in the AL only to the Rangers (at 6!) But mostly it's because the Twins have given up the fewest runs per game in baseball. 2.78 runs allowed per game.

 

[snepp]

Twins hitters have the highest walk rate in the league, 12.8%.

[Rhino and Compass]

Going into the game, the Twins pitching staff had the lowest BABIP, at .219, a full 13 points lower than the White Sox, who were # 2. You can't talk about this hot start without mentioning the defense. 

[Mike Frasier Law]

 

as of  today, 5 players in baseball haven't swung and missed at a pitch in the strike zone:

Joe Panik

Mekly Cabrera

Andrew Benintendi

JJ Hardy

Jorge Polanco

 

4/17 update:

 

it's down to 3: Panik, Polanco, and JJ Hardy.

 

Interestingly, the next two on the list are Nunez (98.2% zone contact) and Mauer (97.5% zone contact)

[drjim]

Twins (tied with Dodgers) still the tops in the majors in run differential.

[Mike Frasier Law]

Miguel Sano hits the ball hard.

 

Oh right, this is about numbers. He leads baseball in average exit velocity.

 

For context, the top 50 leaderboard in average exit velocity ranges from 90.7 mph to 96.2 mph. Except 96.2 mph is second place. Sano is comfortably ahead at 102.1.

 

The difference between his exit velocity and second place (Khris Davis) is greater than the difference between #2 and #50.

[USAFChief]

Courtesy of Aggies7 in last night's game thread:  

 

The last time the Twins hit more HRs than their opposition for a season was 2004.

 

Prior to that, 1991.

[Jerr]

 

Courtesy of Aggies7 in last night's game thread:  

 

The last time the Twins hit more HRs than their opposition for a season was 2004.

 

Prior to that, 1991.

BRING BACK THE '60's......sorry for yelling, but I grew up with those guys   

[snepp]

 

Courtesy of Aggies7 in last night's game thread:  

 

The last time the Twins hit more HRs than their opposition for a season was 2004.

 

Prior to that, 1991.

 

I cannot like this post.

[USAFChief]

I cannot like this post.

Why not? As I see it, we're on a 13 year cycle, and guess where we are on that.

[ashbury]

Why not? As I see it, we're on a 13 year cycle, and guess where we are on that.

That's some fine calculatin' work there, Lou.

 

http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201002/23/18/c0083518_104119.jpg

[drjim]

Twins and DBacks only two teams without a roster move yet.

[drjim]

Twins and DBacks only two teams without a roster move yet.

This didn't age well.

[Dozier's Glorious Hair]

Jorge Polanco is on pace for a 95-RBI season. Who needs Francisco Lindor? 

[diehardtwinsfan]

 

Miguel Sano hits the ball hard.

 

Oh right, this is about numbers. He leads baseball in average exit velocity.

 

For context, the top 50 leaderboard in average exit velocity ranges from 90.7 mph to 96.2 mph. Except 96.2 mph is second place. Sano is comfortably ahead at 102.1.

 

The difference between his exit velocity and second place (Khris Davis) is greater than the difference between #2 and #50.

wow.

[Mike Sixel]

Jorge Polanco is on pace for a 95-RBI season. Who needs Francisco Lindor? 

Heh.

 

But true, Jorge has been what we hoped

[Dozier's Glorious Hair]

Phil Hughes is currently on pace to win 26 games. Time for another extension, baby!