03-10-2025, 07:28 AM
(03-09-2025, 08:18 PM)Mick Wrote: The Giants are in 1st place alone after beating the Cubs. 1st of 15 in the Cactus League. Not bad. Interestingly, the Padres are in last place, D'Backs are in 11th. Hope it carries over.Please don't jinx anything. . ..
Other completely useless and yet entertaining stats. Out of all the 30 teams in MLB:
Hitting stats ranking of 30 MLB teams:
- Giants have most home runs with 27.
- 15th most walks with 64.
- 7th most runs scored with 96…tied with the Dodgers, who have played two more games.
- 6th highest BA at .271
- 5th highest OBP at .357
- 4th highest slugging average at .477
- 4th best OPS at .834
- 6th best BABIP (batting average on balls in play)
- 17th best in stolen bases (they were 28th best 10 days ago)
- T4th fewest grounded into double plays
- 4th fewest at bats per home run
2025 MLB Team Hitting Stat Leaders | MLB.com
Pitching stats ranking of 30 MLB teams:
- Giants have 4th best ERA in MLB at 3.77
- Giants lead all of MLB in WHIP at 1.21
- Feeding that low WHIP is an astonishingly low number of walks, 36. Not only do they have the fewest walks in spring training in all of MLB, but they have the fewest by A LOT...next best are the Royals with 52.
- Their strikeout/walk ratio is best in MLB at an almost comical 4.31:1. next best are the Royals at 3.02 to 1.
- Giant pitchers have given up T5th fewest HRs in spring training with 13..and the four teams in front of them play in the Florida Grapefruit League (harder to hit HRs there).
- The pitchers have struck out the 7th most batters with 155.
- But the Giant pitchers have the sixth most strikeouts per 9 innings at 9.89 (Giants have only played 16 games including split squad games)
- They have not given up a lot of home runs, 13, 5th best in MLB
- Giants are third best in holds with 26.
- Odd stat: Giants have balked the most this spring, with 3.
This team can really pitch.
2025 MLB Team Pitching Stat Leaders | MLB.com
Adds up to the best run differential in MLB, +34 and MLB’s best spring training record at 10-3. They’ve won eight of their last nine.
2025 MLB Standings and Records: Spring Training | MLB.com
Maybe it will be a special season.
As an aside, Joey Bart had the highest OPS on the Pirates last year with .799 and highest OPS+ with 120 (both figures better than Pittsburgh's All-Star AND former Giant Bryan Reynolds). This spring, he has Pittsburgh's third highest OPS at 1.278, also the most hits, second most home runs, second most RBIs. Glad to see he's crushing it.
Free Phogge!!!! And no, crimson doesn't refer to the Tide.