Today, our own Jeff Sullivan tweeted this about his Seattle Mariners:
The Seattle Mariners’ Offense Is Just A Huge Bummer
M's RBI leader on pace for just over 62 RBI at the end of the year. 87 players already have 63 or more
Where there is one depressingly bad statistic, there are usually many, and such is the case here. I dug through the stats and found these, uh, findings:
- The 1978 Oakland Athletics hold the record for fewest runs scored in the American League during the designated hitter era (1973 to present) with 532. The 2010 Mariners are on pace to break this record with 521.
- The Mariners’ designated hitter spot has produced only 53 RBI so far this season.
- In the strike-shortened 1994 season, 11 of the 14 American League teams scored more than the 520 runs with which the Mariners are projected to finish.
- This team’s roster of hitters isn’t dramatically different from that of its 2009 season, in which it scored 640 runs.
- Stolen bases account for 8% of the Mariners’ total bases.
- Were it not for the trade to bring back Russell Branyan, the Mariners would have only one player with ten or more home runs (11, from Franklin Gutierrez).
- Completely unfair comparison, but the Mariners have made 128 plate appearances with the bases loaded and hit three grand slams. The Nationals’ Justin Maxwell also has three grand slams to his name, but in only four career opportunities.
The Mariners’ offensive productivity is, in fact, one of the worst since the controversial “baseball bat” was introduced in 1913.
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