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Baseball Musings
August 01, 2005
Two Losses for the Orioles

In addition to the Palmeiro suspension, the Orioles lost another game this afternoon, finding themselves on the short end of a 6-3 score. Buehrle got himself tossed in the 6th, otherwise the score might have been more lopsided. Chirs Gomez filled in for Palmeiro and went 1 for 4 with a single. The one bright spot is Eric Byrnes, who is 6 for 15 since joining Baltimore.

The Chicago juggernaut continues. They're starting to remind me of the 1984 Tigers. I kept waiting for that team to have a down period, but they just kept rolling all year. So far, the White Sox are doing the same.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:39 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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Although, Chicago can't hit like those Tiggers did. I think that's what will sink them come October.

Altho, wouldn't it be great to see them win a World Series this year? That'd be two years in a row that a team won it all who hasn't won it since the deadball era. I like to dream.

Posted by: Devon at August 1, 2005 08:29 PM

Because I'm a stat junkie, I looked up the '84 Tigers to see how they compare to this year's White Sox. As of the 104 game mark (the White Sox just played their 104th) for both teams:

'84 Tigers 71-33
'05 Chisox 69-35 (2 games back)

...which is pretty impressive, considering the team in 2nd place behind Detroit was 12 games out!

I remember the Tigers hitting better than our current White Sox, so I was surprised to find that only Trammell was hitting over .300 at season's end, and none those Tigers had 100 RBI's.

No White Sox player with more than 2 plate appearances is currently hitting .300. It also doesn't look like any of them will drive in 100 runs.

The White Sox run a lot more than the Tigers did though. Chicago has already swiped 110 based, and Detroit only stole 106 during their entire year.

Interestingly, the Tigers (.341) had a higher OBP than the White Sox (.326) currently have.

Furthermore, those '84 Tigers biggest losing streak was 4 games (they did that 3 times). The '05 White Sox biggest losing streak (so far) is 3 games, but they've done that 5 times.

The Tigers were scoring 5.12 runs each game, opposed to the White Sox 4.96 per game.

The Tigers ERA was 3.49, & the White Sox is a tad higher @ 3.66.

The White Sox may not be as dominant, but they're definately a similar ballclub in results.

Finally, the Pythagorean W-L for Detroit showed they "should've" ended the season 99-63. They overachieved. By this same math formula, The White Sox's current record "should" be about 63-41 or 64-40...so they're both overachieving teams. Interestingly, they're both overachivers by about 5 wins.

Posted by: Devon at August 2, 2005 01:03 AM

Thanks for the research, Devon. Without looking, I would guess the Tigers ranked a lot higher in runs per game, given that offense wasn't as high 20 years ago. One other difference is that the Tigers had a big lead by the end of April, while the White Sox still had Minnesota in competition at that point.

Posted by: David Pinto at August 2, 2005 07:25 AM
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