Het zier ernaar uit dat ook dit jaar weer het MLB record voor strike outs dik verbroken gaat worden. Het record werd vorig jaar gezet.
• The eight highest monthly strikeouts-per-game rates in MLB history have all taken place in the last eight full months of play, dating back to September 2011.
• In Major League history, 81 teams have logged 1,200 or more strikeouts in a season. Only one of those teams did that before 1996, and 68 percent of them have done so in the past five years.
• Last season, six teams struck out at least 1,300 times. The previous high was three teams in a season.
• Ten years ago, 59 hitters struck out 100 times or more. In 2012, 111 hitters reached that tally. (To put that in further perspective, there were 143 hitters who qualified for the batting title last season.)
• The Major League strikeout rate has risen six percent -- from 14 to 20 -- over the past 30 years, according to FanGraphs.com, with roughly half of that increase occurring in the last six years alone.
• Since 2005, the average K/9 rate has increased from 6.3 per nine innings to 7.68 per nine innings. In this same time frame, the league batting average has declined from an average of .264 to a .251 average thus far in 2013. If this number holds, it will be the lowest league batting average in 41 years (the league-wide average in 1972 was .244)
Het vreemde is dat het aantal first pitch strikes juist is afgenomen. Het aantal called strikes is weer gigantisch toegenomen, vooral buiten de strike zone. De umps spelen dus ook een rol in het flinke aantal strike outs. Runs zijn al afgenomen naar Dead ball Era-niveau (1900-1919).
Stiekem mis ik de Steroids Era wel een beetje...
[ Bericht 9% gewijzigd door The_Playmaker op 05-06-2013 20:25:20 ]