Halfway point

We are currently at the halfway point series wise 26/52 series played. And I know some of us I get blamed for being a doomer, and TBH I’m not entirely fair to the team but here is a better break down of their performance.

Tdlr: Ugly first quarter of the season: a bottom 3 team masking as bottom 5 getting by on homeruns. Second quarter, bullpen got good, starters leveled out, and batters realized walking was ok. Realistically we are 15th-22nd ranked team tied down by the first quarter of the season thus making us about a bottom 10 team, but if trends continue to trend I fully expect us to be able to break around 13th. Areas of concern: Walks on both ends, WHIP for the pitchers, Ks for hitters

Big breakdown:

Essentially in the first quarter of the season we were one of the worst teams. Bottom 5 but much closer to bottom 3. A lot of strike outs We got away a lot due to the long ball and not much else. During this tine we were traveling a lot 11 plane flights (one after preseason freeway series) in 13 series. This probably drained our players a lot. Pitching wise it was all bad but it was consistent bottom 5 stats.

The second quarter the team leveled(?) off a lot. Every stat batting wise has basically rose. The biggest difference is this team discovered walks which allowed for this team to essentially be a 50% percentile offensive team. With Trout’s return a small dio, but the biggest thing to notice is the continued drop in K% and rise in BB%. As for pitching our bullpen went on a run while our starters have settled down a bit and Kikuchi has proceed to run his K totals up. Pitching has a good ERA but potentially concerning peripherals like WHIP and BBs.

Currently 40-40
17th overall, 3rd in AL west 7.0 GB, 5th AL WC 1.5 GB
• 13-13 in series wins
• 6-7 in first quarter (thru 5/11) (16-23)
• 7-6 second quarter (thru now) (24-17)
• 4-6 sweeps/swept

Statistical rankings
Batting total
• T23th in WRC+ 93
• 20th in OPS .697 (29th OBP .292/10th SLG .405)
• 29th in AVG .227 (29th Babip .274/5th in ISO)
• 1st(highest) K% 26.7/29th (lowest) BB% 7.2%

Q1
• 26th WRC+ 81
• 26th OPS .659 (30th OBP .274/14th SLG .385)
• 29th AVG .216 (30th Babip .260/6th ISO)
• 1st K% 27.0%/30th BB% 6.5%

Q2
• 14th WRC+ 104
• 12th OPS .732 (21st OBP .309/9th SLG .422)
• 23rd AVG .237 (20th Babip .286/ 4th ISO)
• 2nd K% 26.5%/20th BB% 7.8%

Trout return on May 30
• 14th WRC+ 100
• 16th OPS .716 (18th OBP .309/16th SLG .406)
• 27th AVG .232 (22nd .279 Babip/8th ISO)
• 3rd K% 26.0%/ 17th BB% 8.0%

Pitching Total
• 24th ERA .449 (17th SP 4.12/ 27th RP 5.10)
• 28th FIP .460 (24th 4.48/29th 4.80)
• 28th WHIP 1.44 (26th 1.40/28th 1.50)
• 27th Opp AVG .258 (24th .257/28th .260)
• 24th K/9 8.00 (24th 7.44/12th 8.93)
• 23rd (low) Opp K% 20.4% (25th 19.2%/15th 22.4%)
• 30th BB/9 3.93 (27th 3.71/28th 4.30)
• 1st(high) BB% 10% (4th 9.6%/T2nd 10.8%)
• 25th 1.31 HR/9 (13th 1.19/30th 1.51)

Q1
• 26th ERA .520 (22nd SP 4.13/29th RP 6.94)
• 30th FIP .493 (25th 4.72/30th 5.26)
• 28th WHIP 1.50 (24th 1.36/29th 1.71)
• 28th Opp AVG .270 (19th .247/30th .304)
• 25th K/9 7.60 (27th 6.81/14th 8.88)
• 26th Opp K% 19.2% (27th 17.8%/20th 21.3%)
• 25th BB/9 3.93 (27th 3.83/20th 4.10)
• 5th BB% 9.9% (4th 9.6%/3rd 10.0%)
• 29th 1.48 HR/9 (19th 1.24/30th 1.87)

Q2
• 12th ERA .383 (15th SP 4.11/ 6th RP 3.38)
• 22th FIP .440 (19th 4.26/25th 4.37)
• 27th WHIP 1.39 (28th 1.44/13th 1.30)
• 21th Opp AVG .248 (T25th .266/5th .216)
• 16th K/9 8.38 (20th 8.01/10th 8.98)
• 19th Opp K% 21.6% (23rd 20.5%/8th 23.4%)
• T28th BB/9 3.93 (28th 3.59/28th 4.49)
• 2nd Opp BB% 10.1% (3rd 9.2%/2nd 11.7%)
• 16th 1.15 HR/9 (14th 1.14/21st 1.17)

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