Any discussion of Baseball Heroes, Babe Ruth, the King of Swat is always near the top. His accomplishments were astounding. The Babe for 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) set new records almost every year some was finally overcome some decades later, but it took 162 game season. (...
Buxton’s current swing rate is right around MLB average, at 47.2%, but it’d be the second lowest of his career, behind his 46-game stint in his first year in 2015 (46.6%). That’s notable for a player who swung at 64.1% of pitches in 2020 and was above 50% in each year fro...
Average-wise, he isn't having a typical "Freddie Freeman" kind of season, but just about anyone would be thrilled to sport a .297/.401/.498 line. The issue for Freeman is the presence of full-time first baseman Bryce Harper (.278/.390/.529, 15 HR, 45 RBIs). ...
The first half of this story is generally correct. When a batter hits with the platoon advantage, his on-base plus slugging percentage is more than 80 points higher than when he faces a same-handed pitcher, and left-handed batters enjoy this advantage far more often (73 percent of plate ...
In our (mostly for fun) “bat stats,” we took the final season averages and slugging percentages of all MLB starters, mashed them together, and came up with a batting average and slugging percentage for each of the top six bat companies. Old Hickory’s “batting average” was .272, 18...
It feels like it happened virtually overnight.Last season, the Braves stood out for their high-power offense. They were the only team to hit over 300 home runs and 900 RBIs or more. They had the best average (.276), on-base percentage (.344), slugging (.501) and OPS (.845). ...
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4. The new rules are still working How much of a difference is the pitch clock making this October? Take a look at this: 2021 postseason average game: 3 hours, 37 minutes 2022 postseason average time of game: 3 hours, 32 minutes 2023 postseason average time of game: 3 hou...
What I don't love is a team that puts more into the amenities than the actual product on the field.I'm not saying we needed to back a Brinks truck up to Baez, Bryant, and Rizzo's pads and pay them whatever they wanted to stay in Chicago. No, not at all. What I am saying is...
A below average hitter in his 20s (OPS+ of 98), Pérez is a slugging force in his 30s (OPS+ of 116). It began with opening his stance … Pérez's batting stance in 2018 (first picture) compared to this season. / … which gave him a full turn into the baseball instead of ...