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April 07, 2008
Rough Starts With The Bat Not Always Bad News
I was just looking back at the 1977 Yankees. That season, in their first 10 games, New York had a BA/OBP/SLG line of .232/.296/.315 in 378 PA. They went 2-8 in those first 10 games. And, four of those eight losses were by one run...and another was a 2-0 loss. But, at the end of the season, the 1977 Yankees had the league's best mark in Runs Created Above Average (146) and they won the A.L. East.
Doing some research on this now, I saw that The Sommer Frieze had a post on this as well yesterday. Ah, the line-up out of the hat trick. Does General Joe know about that one?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at April 7, 2008 11:23 AM