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Some interesting THT league-wide stats and graphs

This page at Hardball Times shows some pretty interesting things about the A's in relation to the rest of the league for the month of April.

...Well, it's probably not that surprising, but interesting nonetheless.  There are a couple things that stand out about the offense.  

For one, the Isolated Power is just absymal.  It's about as close to the bottom of the graph as you can get.  OBP, though not spectacular, isn't too bad, which basically quantifies what everyone's been saying- we get guys on base, but are unable to hit anything well enough to drive in runs.  

Also, a thing that seemed to stand out is that while we went 13-13, the team was projected for just 11 wins based on their RS-RA.  What that says for the future, I don't really know.

One last point- We have the highest line-drive percentage in the AL, ("Line Drive Percentage. Baseball Info Solutions tracks the trajectory of each batted ball and categorizes it as a groundball, fly ball or line drive. LD% is the percent of batted balls that are line drives. Line drives are not necessarily the hardest hit balls, but they do fall for a hit around 75% of the time.") which means of all the AL teams, we hit the most line drives per contact.  What is interesting is that our batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is the lowest in the AL.  So, even though the A's should have at least a small advantage from the line drives, nothing is really falling for a hit.  Could be evidence of the whole bad luck thing.  

...Or it could be meaningless.

Enjoy.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/teams/alwest/

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very interesting
I especially like the defense/pitching graph. Interesting that the Yankees and Boston are so abysmal at defense.

One note about isolated power; you wrote "It's about as close to the bottom of the graph as you can get." That's true only because they chose to put the baseline of the graph just below where we lie, which was an arbitrary choice. You need to look at where we are relative to other team, not where we are relative to an arbitrary zero line. Still that doesn't change the basic point, which is we have no power.

by matthias on May 3, 2005 3:58 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Why are the Mariners green and we're blue?
I just needed something new here, since the season had started ...

by devo on May 3, 2005 4:33 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I Know!
What's up with that?!?
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." Jack Handey

by davebenfremont on May 3, 2005 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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