Fun With Numbers 2023 Edition

[AlwaysinModeration]

I may be looking in the wrong places, but I don’t see this forum up yet for this year, which just doesn’t see right.  So many numbers to have fun with, so little time!

Twins on pace for 162 shutout wins.

Twins on pace to outscore their opponents by (checks math) 324 runs.

Luiz Arraez on pace for 378 hits.

Pablo Lopez averaging 13.5 strikeouts per 9 innings.

Christian Vazquez on pace to hit over .500.

Mitch Garver on pace for I don’t know, 162 home runs?

Byron Buxton on pace for 81 triples, 81 doubles, and 162 awkward slides. BUT, only half of those involving his face!

Any other fun numbers out there?

[nclahammer]

Byron Buxton on pace for 243 runs scored?  Joey Gallo on pace for 324 strikeouts?  Fun to play with the numbers are this stage of the season.

[lecroy24fan]

2-0 + 2-0 = 2-0

[ashbury]

Trevor May currently has both of Oakland's wins to his credit.  He's 2-1, the team is 2-4.  Has any pitcher ever accounted for 100% of his team's wins for a full season?  Rooting for you, Trevor!

[Benchwarmerjim]

1 hour ago, ashbury said:

Trevor May currently has both of Oakland's wins to his credit.  He's 2-1, the team is 2-4.  Has any pitcher ever accounted for 100% of his team's wins for a full season?  Rooting for you, Trevor!

strong "1997 Brad Radke win total ratio" vibes

[stringer bell]

After eight games the Twins lead all of MLB in strikeouts. That is, their pitchers have struck out more hitters than any other team. Unbelievable. 

[stringer bell]

Luis Arraez in games won by the Marlins: .167 BA, .542 OPS

In games lost by the Marlins: .542 BA, 1.202 OPS

[Nine of twelve]

Current Twins team ERA: 2.50. Second best in MLB. Now, I know ERA is not a perfect stat but it's still not a bad overall indicator of how the pitchers are doing. Oh, and the best team ERA is 1.76. We all know which team that is. SSS or not, that is crazy.

[ashbury]

Did you think the first inning of Thursday's beatdown of the Yankees was a little unusual?  Well, I mean yeah, but in terms of something that had never happened before? 

A kindly member of SABR's Retrosheet project confirmed my conjecture that never have the #9, #1, and #2 batters in a lineup ever hit consecutive homers in the first inning.  The lowest starting point in the batting order for three such homers prior to now was the #5 batter, done three times in history (once was actually a 4-homer sequence, just last year when the Cardinals beat the Phils). 

It takes an incredible string of good outcomes for things to only get really rolling with batter #9!

[ashbury]

In the Not-Fun With Numbers department (and I brought this up in the Twins game writeup last night), I watched as much of last night's Mets-A's game as I could stand, and it finished 17-6 after I gave up midway through at 13-5.  Took them 3:29 to complete, with Mets pitchers totaling 4 walks and 12 strikeouts, and the A's issuing 17(!) free passes and striking out 7, plus a couple of HBP and I forget what else.  A total of 408 pitches were thrown, of which 228 were strikes. 

Pitches outside the strike zone are part of the game, but 180 of them to sit through?  That's a pair of crisply pitched complete games for the two teams, just about - complete games where absolutely nothing happens except guys walking from base to base.  Yeesh.

It could have been worse: I mean, without the pitch clock shaving 10 seconds of wasted time per pitch, this could have been a 4.5 hour monstrosity, instead of the 3.5 hour monstrosity it actually was.

[lecroy24fan]

Also in Thursdays game, Joe Ryan threw 69 strikes.

[Benchwarmerjim]

Rocco is on pace for 11 ejections this season

[USAFChief]

The Rays have hit at least 1 HR in every one of their games this year.

[Nine of twelve]

This is probably more like not much fun with numbers for Oakland fans--the Athletics have allowed an average of 8.1 runs per game while scoring an average of 3.4 per game. The team ERA is 7.97.

[Nine of twelve]

0.62. Sonny Gray's season ERA after tonight's 7 scoreless innings.

[Squirrel]

1 hour ago, Nine of twelve said:

0.62. Sonny Gray's season ERA after tonight's 7 scoreless innings.

.62 is a really fun number!

[Jocko87]

On 4/6/2023 at 7:18 PM, ashbury said:

Trevor May currently has both of Oakland's wins to his credit.  He's 2-1, the team is 2-4.  Has any pitcher ever accounted for 100% of his team's wins for a full season?  Rooting for you, Trevor!

Brent Rooker is on pace for 42 homers.  A's on pace for 35 wins.

[ashbury]

9 hours ago, Jocko87 said:

Brent Rooker is on pace for 42 homers.  A's on pace for 35 wins.

Going to see them this Saturday. Maybe I'll bring them good luck that game and put them on a 36-win pace.

[AlwaysinModeration]

Twins are batting .234 overall as a team, good for 21st place in all of baseball…and first in the AL Central!

White Sox .232

Guardians .228

Tigers .222

Royals .216

 

By the way, the Rays….282, the Dodgers .230, and the Yankees, courtesy in no small part to Twins pitching, are batting .225.

[Nine of twelve]

3 hours ago, AlwaysinModeration said:

Twins are batting .234 overall as a team, good for 21st place in all of baseball…and first in the AL Central!

White Sox .232

Guardians .228

Tigers .222

Royals .216

 

By the way, the Rays….282, the Dodgers .230, and the Yankees, courtesy in no small part to Twins pitching, are batting .225.

To provide a reference point, the batting average of MLB as a whole is .244.

[stringer bell]

Baseball Reference lists Ryan Jeffers as having the best Caught Stealing percentage in MLB, with four caught stealing and three successful stolen bases. Those of us that have watched Twins games will recall that three of the four caught stealings were occasions when the runner broke too early and the pitcher threw the runner out at second. Jeffers has successfully thrown out one runner out of four.

[Craig Arko]

 

[stringer bell]

Not exactly the same, but I recall Kirby getting credited for a single on a ball that was on home plate. The ball had backspin a rolled backwards onto the plate. The catcher tried to barehand  the ball and overran it.

[Jocko87]

On 4/25/2023 at 12:51 AM, Jocko87 said:

Brent Rooker is on pace for 42 homers.  A's on pace for 35 wins.

Brent Rooker is on pace for 46 homers.  A's on pace for 29 wins.  Will report back next Sunday.

[Nine of twelve]

It hasn't happened yet this year, but there is a possibility in the next few years to see the scorecard triple crown: the player's jersey number, batting order position, and fielding position all being the same. I think the last time it happened on the Twins was Cuddyer playing third base and batting fifth. I'm referring specifically to Trevor Larnach playing right field and batting ninth. Less likely: Carlos Correa playing second base and batting fourth.

[lecroy24fan]

This is more of a sad one then fun one but Joe Ryan has the same amount of wins as the A's have, 5.

[lecroy24fan]

42 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

It hasn't happened yet this year, but there is a possibility in the next few years to see the scorecard triple crown: the player's jersey number, batting order position, and fielding position all being the same. I think the last time it happened on the Twins was Cuddyer playing third base and batting fifth. I'm referring specifically to Trevor Larnach playing right field and batting ninth. Less likely: Carlos Correa playing second base and batting fourth.

Probably slightly more likely than Correa would be Nick Gordon pitching in a mopup role while in the leadoff spot.

[Benchwarmerjim]

Byron Buxton is on pace for about 40 HRs at home, 0 on the road.

[USAFChief]

20 hours ago, lecroy24fan said:

Probably slightly more likely than Correa would be Nick Gordon pitching in a mopup role while in the leadoff spot.

Haha, good 1.

[USAFChief]

Only 4 MLB teams have single digits in the loss column. 

Two of them are the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.