Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 15, 2008
Scoring Machine

The Arizona Diamondbacks downed the Giants this afternoon 8-2. That raises their major league leading runs per game to 6.4. Last season, the pitching carried this team, but the youngsters on offense matured this year, and they are knocking the ball around the park. With Micah Owings doing another good job of demonstrating the irrelevance of spring training stats today, this team has a rotation to match their offense. In a league lacking a great team, they could run away in the race for best record in the league and home field advantage.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:50 PM | Team Evaluation | TrackBack (0)
Comments

It's certainly early, but the 6.4 number looks really good right now. I agree that the young guys have definitely stepped it up a notch thus far...they look to be playing with much more confidence than last year. That combined with raw talent can hopefully carry them far.

Posted by: DbacksBuzz at April 16, 2008 01:07 AM

Sorry, I'm not yet sold. I don't think the team has matured or improved or been alien-possessed all that much compared to last year's sub-zero run diff squad. It's just fourteen games, after all.

Arizona has only achieved a two-game lead over San Diego with what may be their best stretch of play all year. The D-Backs will not pile up a +37 run diff every fourteen games, so harder times are ahead.

Posted by: Casey Abell at April 16, 2008 08:17 AM
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