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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Scoring at all-time low in AL

With teams like the Sentinals moving from an extreme hitter's park in Santa Fe to an extreme pitcher's park in San Antonio, run-scoring in the American League has come down significantly in Long Haul's fifth season:



AVG

OBP

SLG

OPS

R/G

Season 1

.279

.348

.448

.796

5.54

Season 2

.292

.363

.486

.850

6.60

Season 3

.282

.350

.466

.817

5.69

Season 4

.282

.349

.469

.818

5.68

Season 5

.272

.339

.451

.790

5.34

MLB '07

.271

.338

.423

.761

4.90

MLB '08

.265

.333

.411

.744

4.60


Scoring in Season 5 (through 119 games) is down 3.6 percent from the previous all-time low in Season 1, and while it's still 9 percent higher on average than in Major League Baseball's AL in 2007 and 16.1 percent higher than in 2008 (through yesterday's games), it's a far cry from Long Haul's Season 2 when six AL teams gave up more than 1,000 runs.

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