Who will make the MLB playoffs this year? We’re tracking the postseason with regular updates for the MLB postseason brackets and the playoff seeding outlook for the American League and National League in 2024. As we do every season, Sportsnaut’s MLB playoffs picture will take a look at w...
MLB's season batting average has dropped from .267 in 1997 to .243 this year, with a team's average runs declining from 4.77 to 4.33. “The game has evolved in a way that nobody would have chosen if we were sitting down 25 years ago to chart a path towards t...
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“Batting average was down a little bit. That’s not necessarily a good thing if you’re looking for action in the game,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said in late May. And the drop isn’t just in the big leagues. This year’s minor league batting average i...
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The righty has done a good enough job in the Expected Slugging category this year, but he's still allowed a large collection of baserunners on account of his .255 Expected Batting Average -- which would be the worst he's had since 2016 -- and an alarming walk rate which is over 9%...
The major league batting average rose 16 points to .249 over the first 1 1/2 weeks of this season with new shift limits in place, while game time dropped 31 minutes to 2:38 in the first year of the pitch clock. The time is on track to be the lowest since
Passan:I’ll take that a step further. The winner of the National League batting crown will become the first batting champion in baseball history with a sub-.300 average. Currently,Marcell Ozuna,Trea TurnerandLuis Arraezare the only NL players over .300, and so few hitters can string to...
WHIP_plusWalks plus hits divided by innings pitched, indexed relative to league average (which is always 100). oppBABIP_plusOpponent's batting average on balls in play indexed relative to league average (which is always 100). LOB_plusLeft on base percentage allowed, indexed relative to league...
Death, taxes and the Rockies amassing a lot of runs: the only stuff we can count on every year. It’s hardly a secret that hitters generate star-level numbers while batting in Coors Field, and so whether the Rockies trade Carlos Gonzalez or not, they’ll still pile up production. Last...