Fun with Numbers 2021

[diehardtwinsfan]

Nelson Cruz is on pace to hit over 150 home runs if he gets 500 at bats.

 

Josh Donaldson slash line:  1.000/1.000/2.000/3.000

[Brandon]

Caleb Thielbar is striking out 22.5 per 9 innings.

 

[AlwaysinModeration]

Buxton leading the league in homers, slugging, and OPS. Only second in Batting Average. However, Kepler has twice as many stolen bases as Buck.

[Dodecahedron]

I tried out a new doctor closer to my new home. He said I no longer needed to take my stomach medication. It took 1.5 days for him to be proven wrong. He is no longer my doctor.

[ashbury]

Surely they will raise their numbers as the year goes along, but currently the 2021 Detroit Tigers are batting a collective .195.

 

The last time a major league team had a batting average below .200 for an entire season? 1884, when 3 clubs "achieved" the feat in the questionable Union Association.

[Number3]

Good to see them win a 6-5 game. That is the scoring range that has been missing so far this year.

[AlwaysinModeration]

The season by 10s:

 

5-5

2-8

4-6

 

So in football parlance, they are 0-2-1. They really need to get a win or two under their belts. Still a lot of season left to right the ship, but this start is putting them in a decent-sized hole.

[Brock Beauchamp]

This... is... fun...?

 

[GCTF]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

This... is... fun...?

 

Sean Bergman would to object.. 9.66 in 68 innings

[Brock Beauchamp]

Just now, GCTF said:

Sean Bergman would to object.. 9.66 in 68 innings

Yikes!

And I had successfully erased that man's name from my memory banks.

[USAFChief]

Per Gleeman: to date, in 2021, LH hitters have combined to hit. 285/.358/.512 against Minnesota Twins pitching.

Justin Morneau was a career .281/.341/.481 hitter.

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Twins have played 82 games. They have scored first in 47 of those games, or 57% of their total games.

The Twins are 23-24 in games in which they score first.

Typically, the team that scores first wins 65-70% of the time.

Twins Baseball™

[Vanimal46]

The Detroit Tigers have 2 winning months in a row. The Twins have 0 winning months in 2021. 

[Vanimal46]

Dan Szymborski did a mid-season review of his ZIPS projections. The Twins are -14 wins off of their projection. 

[Vanimal46]

Amazing. 2021 Twins baseball 

[Mike Frasier Law]

As of today, Miguel Sano has 15 home runs - behind only Nelly at 18. He also has -.3fWAR.  If Nelly gets traded, it's possible for Sano to hit 4+ home runs and keep his fWAR negative. Can he finish at the team home run leader while being below replacement level?

[Mike Frasier Law]

There are currently 5 players (min 250 PA) with at least as many walks as strikeouts. Arraez is just shy. He's 24 walks to 27 strikeouts. Can he cross that threshhold by the end of the year?

[nicksaviking]

On 7/18/2021 at 11:37 AM, Vanimal46 said:

Amazing. 2021 Twins baseball 

All the more reason to change how errors are scored.

Or in this case, how they're not scored.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

August 2nd and we are 44-62.

We can still win 100 games!

 

And if most of them are 1 run wins, we can still coast in with fewer runs scored than our opponents.

 

Oh, and i had to search to find this thread. There is another one in other baseball, but it is for 2021 season, not just 2021, so i'm not surprised this one is more fun.

[ashbury]

5 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

August 2nd and we are 44-62.

We can still win 100 games!

The first sentence had me worried, but a fifty-six game winning streak would indeed be fun.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

19 minutes ago, ashbury said:

The first sentence had me worried, but a fifty-six game winning streak would indeed be fun.

I think i could accept running the other streak to 0-19 this year if Berrios gets the win.... but it would be tough.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

On 8/2/2021 at 8:22 PM, sampleSizeOfOne said:

 

August 2nd and we are 44-62.

We can still win 100 games!

 

It was nice while it lasted.

[Vanimal46]

Hmm, maybe we should fix the pitching staff?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

9 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Hmm, maybe we should fix the pitching staff?

Would playing more 7 inning games help keep opponants from scoring 5 runs?

[Vanimal46]

2 minutes ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Would playing more 7 inning games help keep opponants from scoring 5 runs?

Depends. Who’s pitching?

[lecroy24fan]

I'll give you a fun one here.

 

The Twins are 5-0 when I am in attendance. 

 

SP's were Happ (3), Berrios, and Ober. A miracle to have not seen a loss. 

 

 

[USAFChief]

18 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Hmm, maybe we should fix the pitching staff?

Yeah, I'm too lazy to actually look it up, but I'd imagine the real takeaway here is the fact the Twins have given up 6 or more runs in ~45% of their games so far.

 

That's ... awful.

 

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

I don't know if I've posted this "fun with numbers" before but in case I haven't, it's something I stumbled across a couple of years ago, checking to see if my memory was selective or if the Twins have truly been this horrifying.

Yes, they've been this horrifying.

The Twins have an 18 game postseason losing streak, right?

They scored first in 12 of those games.

That's 67% of the postseason games they lost.

I'm just going to lock this thread now. It can't get worse than this.

[ashbury]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I'm just going to lock this thread now. It can't get worse than this.

First!

[USAFChief]

Jorge Polanco has 86 total bases since July 4th.

 

Andrelton Simmons has 86 total bases since opening day.