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February 04, 2008
Team Offense, Pittsbugh Pirates

Correction: I had LaRoche's slugging percentage wrong in the original post. I've updated based on the correct slugging percentage.

We continue to look at team offenses for 2008 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Jason Bay

Jason Bay
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In 2007, the Pirates scored 4.47 runs per game.

I plugged in a likely lineup to the Lineup Analysis Tool, using the Marcel the Monkey predictions from Tom Tango. For pitchers, I used the team pitcher averages from 2007. The lineups rate as follows:

  • Best: 4.69 runs per game
  • Given: 4.48 runs per game
  • Worst: 4.19 runs per game

Standing pat caused the Pirates to project to stay even with 2007, despite the Marcels showing a big rebound in Jason Bay's batting averages. The overall team OBA isn't bad. The NL average in 2007 was .334, and most players in the lineup are right around that. There's no power to back it up, however. This is an offense that does an okay job of putting men on base, but does very little to move them around with power.

I wonder if Barry Bonds would come back to Pittsburgh? That's what used to happen to old sluggers. Ruth went back to Boston, Aaron to Milwaukee, and Mays to New York. From their history, Bonds probably wouldn't play in Pittsburgh again, but you never know. The Pirates could spend a lot on a one year deal and add a great deal of offense to the team without mortgaging the future.

Previous teams covered in the series:


Posted by David Pinto at 08:28 AM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Just so you know, it appears as though you have Adam LaRoche with only a .377 SLG for next year.

Posted by: brandon at February 4, 2008 10:34 AM

Assuming LaRoche's slg should be .477 instead of .377 like you have listed, the Pirates' offense looks exactly the same.

Posted by: brandon at February 4, 2008 10:42 AM

Didn't Ruth go to the Boston Braves, not the Red Sox?

Posted by: Aaron B. at February 4, 2008 05:47 PM
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