To clarify, a player’s average bat speed, by our definition, is the average bat speed across the top 90% of his swings – in other words, excluding “swords” and other swings that may have been incomplete. Below, we analyze all 30 teams’ leaders in average bat speed this season, ...
From home runs to strikeouts to Outs Above Average, here's a look at your 2023 league leaders. BATTING Home runs AL: Shohei Ohtani (LAA), 44 Ohtani led the AL in home runs despite only playing in three games in September, becoming the first home run leader to hit zero home runs in...
Oh, it is. But based on these factors, and controlling for others, we can now quantify, in runs saved, how well catchers manage their pitchers. Leaders in total runs saved, 2012-14 It's no coincidence that two of the last four Cy Young winners threw to the Tigers'Alex Avila(below) ...
His MLB Statistics, team, career awards and more Bat style Left Throws Left Batting Average (Win Loss record) 295 Home Runs 69 Runs batted in 217 Stolen Bases Unknown MLB debut May 20, 2018, for the Washington Nationals Teams in Club career Washington Nationals (2018–present) Career Highligh...
Righties are hitting .248, up one point, leaving the overall batting average up six points. Runs per game have increased to 9.1 from 8.7 and steals per game to 1.4 from 1.0. Average attendance of 28,404 is up 8.1% from a similar time last year and on track to be the hig...
Chicago is the seventh different MLB team Thielbar has been a part of since his pro career began as an 18th-round pick for the Brewers in the 2009 draft. Despite this journeyman resume, all Thielbar’s 320 big league innings over eight seasons have come with the Twins, in two separate st...
career, but he joined the Phillies starting rotation during his first year with the team and promptly posted a career-low 2.35 earned run average (ERA). The following year he won 16 games and helped the Phillies reach the World Series, which they lost to theToronto Blue Jays. He was ...
Milwaukee’s rotation has been ravaged by injuries, leading the Brewers to build something of a patchwork around innings leadersFreddy PeraltaandColin Rea.Bryse WilsonandTobias Myershave stepped into regular starting roles, and the Brewers were reportedlyset to promoteprospectCarlos Rodriguezin time for...
This could have a pronounced effect on the holy grail of baseball stats: the .400 average. That’s a mark, as fans know, not reached sinceTed Williams hit .406 in 1941. But in a sample of 60 games, the odds of someone doing it, even in an era whenbatting average is dead, dramati...
Puk emerged as one of the best high-leverage relievers in the National League a year ago, pitching to a solid .209 Expected Batting Average and striking out 32.2% of the batters he faced. In doing so, he walked just 5.4% of them, continuing with an improving trend over the last two ...