Right. So it's ~200 PA for each of these splits - and at those volumes of opportunities you can still occasionally see head-scratchers like this. Little things like the mix of lefties and righties in the road games could play a role for instance. Today's early game moved him in the right direction FWIW.
Yes. "Hello, Mr. Ryan? We'd really like to see a qualifying offer right now, or my client will not be receptive to the team's offers in the off-season."
Yeah but with two slap-hitting punch-and-judys like Mauer and especially Willingham to follow, you want the runners both in scoring po.... Uh, no. I can't explain it either.
Yeah. It amazes me that in a sport that values rate stats like BA and ERA, no normalization for numbers of chances occurs (in the commonly mentioned stats) for RBI and DP and so forth.