Game Thread 8/23: Minnesota Twins (18-10) @ Kansas City Royals (11-16) 1:05pmCT

[Craig Arko]

 

One can never go wrong quoting Babylon 5.

And let me know if the metaphors ever shift to much.

I am working on a metaphors field to fix that.

[LVTwinsfan]

This is an excerpt from an article on analytics, the link is at the bottom:

 

 

Let’s take Whit Merrifield the top base stealer for 2018, he had 45 stolen bases and was caught stealing 10 times. If we look at the added run expectancy for what he did it was worth 3.4 runs across the season to the Royals and even with the Royals anaemic total runs scored of 638 his base stealing was effectively increased it by 0.5%.

 

https://batflipsandnerds.com/2018/11/03/analytics-and-its-effects-on-the-mlb-the-stolen-base/