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Quality Pitching and Offense

I have come up with a new way to analyze a team's offense and defense (well, at least it's new to me.)

Quality Offense -- Offense scores more than four runs.
Quality Pitching -- Pitching holds opposing team to four runs or less.

If pitching holds the other team to four or less runs, the team is in the game. If the offense scores more than five runs, they've given the pitchers a good chance to win. Of course, in the steroid era, I probably would have had to select a number like eight instead of four.

For my team, the Twins who have played 61 games, here are the numbers first for their wins and then their losses:

Wins 36
QP 30
QO 26

Loss 25
QP 11
QO 2

Total 58
QP 41
QO 28

Based on this, the Twins pitching has been pretty effective, while their offense has under performed.

In a loss, it is impossible for a team to have both a quality pitching performance and a quality offensive performance. Therefore, the Twins had ten losses where neither pitching nor offense performed well. Over the last 17 games, the Twins are 11-6. It's been all an offensive struggle in that all six losses quality pitching performances.

Look at the Houston Astros who keep blowing games for Clemens. Their pitching is nearly as good as the Twins, but their offense is nonexistant.

Wins 25
QP 22
QO 13

Loss 36
QP 17
QO 4

Total 61
QP 39
QO 17

posted by DRL @ 12:20 PM