Bobbert wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:23 pm
At the 1/3 mark of the season (54 games), the Tigers are on pace to score 450 runs. That's fewer runs than any team scored in 1968—the Year of the Pitcher. And only one team that year had a lower batting average than the current Tigers (.218).
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leag ... ting.shtml
In most jobs, historically bad performance would be punished. The manager A.J. Hinch has often said that baseball is a game of performance. When are the Tigers going to get a new hitting coach?
Here are the 54-game hitting stats for the 2022 Detroit Tigers: AVG: .218 OBA: .278 AB: 1740 R: 150 H: 380 2B: 69 3B: 7 HR: 30 RBI: 145 BB: 128 SO: 461: SB: 11 CS: 11 E: 31
Other projected stats:
Most runs: 60 (Candelerio)
Most HR: 15 (Schoop)
Most hits: 147 (Cabrera)
Most RBI: 57 (Cabrera)
Highest average: .301 (Cabrera)
Record: 63-99
At the 1/2 mark of the season (81 games), the Tigers are on pace to score 518 runs. That's a slight improvement on the 54-game mark, but it's still pretty low. The average is also up from .218 to .232.
Other projected stats:
Most runs: 54 (Schoop)
Most HR: 14 (Baez and Haase)
Most hits: 156 (Cabrera)
Most RBI: 62 (Cabrera)
Highest averages: .322 (Reyes, 28 games), .308 (Cabrera, 70 games)
Record: 68-94
On the pitching side, one stat that jumps out is the number of starts by different pitchers. Only three have more than 10, led by Skubal (16), followed by two rookies, Brieske (13) and Faedo (11).
And as of today, the Tigers' relievers have the third lowest ERA in all of baseball. Too bad Leyland didn't have this kind of bullpen when he was here—he might have won a world championship.
https://www.mlb.com/stats/team/pitching ... tState=asc