Baseball Toaster Catfish Stew
Help
STOP CASTING POROSITY! An Oakland Athletics blog.
Frozen Toast
Search
Google Search
Web
Toaster
Catfish Stew
Archives

2009
02  01 

2008
12  11  10  09  08  07 
06  05  04  03  02  01 

2007
12  11  10  09  08  07 
06  05  04  03  02  01 

2006
12  11  10  09  08  07 
06  05  04  03  02  01 

2005
12  11  10  09  08  07 
06  05  04  03  01 

2004
12  09  08  01 

2003
12  11  10  09  08 
Email Us

Ken: catfish AT zombia d.o.t. com
Ryan: rarmbrust AT gmail d.o.t. com
Philip: kingchimp AT alamedanet d.o.t net

Ken's Greatest Hits
28 Aug 2003
12 Jan 2004
31 May 2005
11 May 2005
29 Jun 2005
8 Jun 2005
19 Jul 2005
11 Aug 2005
7 Sep 2005
20 Sep 2005
22 Sep 2005
26 Sep 2005
28 Sep 2005
29 Sep 2005
18 Oct 2005
9 Nov 2005
15 Nov 2005
20 Nov 2005

13 Dec 2005
19 Jan 2006
28 Jan 2006
21 Feb 2006
10 Apr 2006
16 Apr 2006
22 Apr 2006
7 May 2006
25 May 2006
31 May 2006
18 Jun 2006
22 Jun 2006
6 Jul 2006
17 Jul 2006
13 Aug 2006
15 Aug 2006
16 Aug 2006
20 Aug 2006
11 Oct 2006
31 Oct 2006
29 Dec 2006
4 Jan 2006
12 Jan 2006
27 Jan 2007
17 Feb 2007
30 Apr 2007
27 Aug 2007
5 Sep 2007
19 Oct 2007
23 Nov 2007
5 Jan 2008
16 Jan 2008
4 Feb 2008
7 May 2008
20 Jun 2008
4 Feb 2008
Some Post-Break Numbers
2006-09-20 23:07
by Ken Arneson

I had a nice long post three-fourths written earlier this morning, but my browser window just suddenly closed on me, and poof!--it was gone. I think there's a conspiracy behind this mysterious disappearance. Somebody doesn't want you to know what I know. I'd explain more, but then I'd have to write the darn thing over again, and there's no time.

Instead, I'll just present this little chart of some post-break numbers for the AL playoff contenders. I checked these numbers to see how good the A's hitting has been since the All-Star Break, in comparison to their competitors. Answer: pretty good.

TeamHitting
Avg/OBP/SLG
Pitching
Avg/OBP/SLG
Difference
Avg/OBP/SLG
Sum of Diffs
Avg+OBP+SLG
Yankees.288/.367/.478.263/.322/.412.025/.045/.066.136
Athletics.283/.364/.445.254/.321/.392.029/.043/.053.125
Twins.297/.354/.439.266/.319/.422.031/.035/.017.083
White Sox.275/.332/.453.262/.328/.424.013/.004/.029.046
Angels.273/.334/.421.259/.324/.411.014/.010/.010.034
Tigers.270/.320/.427.277/.340/.442-.007/-.020/-.015-.042

Interesting: the stat that separates the top three teams from the second three is mostly OBP. On the other hand, the stat that separates the top three teams from each other is mostly slugging percentage.

Maybe Billy Beane knew something when he predicted before last year's playoffs that the winner would be the team that hit the most home runs.

Comments
2006-09-21 09:07:05
1.   Agronox
You write these posts in a browser window? After working in the computer industry for however many years, you don't write in an environment where you can CTRL-S every five seconds?

Tsk tsk, Mr. Arneson.

2006-09-21 11:10:13
2.   Ken Arneson
Yeah, yeah, I know. Brain fart.

Usually I edit in vi, where if something crashes, I can just recover with vi -r. I was on a PC this time, though, so I just used the primitive Toaster editor. And when there, I usually save often, but this time I didn't.

2006-09-23 18:01:46
3.   randym77
Interesting. So we should worry about the Twinkies, even menos Liriano?

Comment status: comments have been closed. Baseball Toaster is now out of business.