Here's a quick question. Which teams relied most on the homerun in 2005?
One way to answer that is to rank the teams by the percentage of their runs that scored on homeruns. Here they are:
Team RS RS-HR Pct
TEX 865 413 47.7%
CIN 820 364 44.4%
NYA 886 390 44.0%
CHA 741 314 42.4%
CHN 703 296 42.1%
ARI 696 288 41.4%
CLE 790 321 40.6%
BAL 729 293 40.2%
ATL 769 300 39.0%
BOS 910 348 38.2%
MIL 726 275 37.9%
NYN 722 269 37.3%
HOU 693 257 37.1%
DET 723 262 36.2%
PHI 807 290 35.9%
TBA 750 262 34.9%
LAN 685 238 34.7%
SLN 805 275 34.2%
COL 739 246 33.3%
SFN 649 213 32.8%
OAK 772 252 32.6%
MIN 688 219 31.8%
ANA 761 240 31.5%
PIT 680 211 31.0%
TOR 775 238 30.7%
SEA 699 212 30.3%
SDN 684 206 30.1%
FLO 717 215 30.0%
KCA 701 200 28.5%
WAS 639 166 26.0%
Texas leads both in percentage of runs scored on homeruns and total runs scored on homeruns while the playoff teams come in 3rd (Yankees), 4th (White Sox), 9th (Atlanta), 10th (Boston), 13th (Astros), 18th (Cardinals), 23rd (Angels), and 27th (Padres).
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1 comment:
Dan,
Great stuff.
In the playoffs, the White Sox scored 32 runs on HRs, versus 67 total scored. That works out to 48%.
They allowed 34 runs in total, including 11 on HRs.
So the White Sox scored almost as many runs on HRs as they allowed in total.
A recent New York Times article (using retrosheet data) showed that run scoring in the playoffs drops by 16%, while HRs drop only 6%. Thus, in the playoffs, HRs become more important (not small ball).
And the White Sox are Exhibit A to the value of hitting HRs in the playoffs (along with excellent pitching and good defense).
Dave
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