AL OBP leaders

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I'm not sure what this means, if anything -- but I just noticed that as of today, 11 of the top 16 AL leaders in OBP are Yankees/Red Sox. That seems like an overwhelmingly weird statistic -- are those teams really that much better offensively than the rest of their league?

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, but they're pretty god damn good:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/byteam?cat=Overall&cut_type=0&conference=AL&year=season_2005&sort=702

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/byteam?cat=Overall&cut_type=0&conference=AL&year=season_2005&sort=723

― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

You get guys on base, you score more runs. Booyakah.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Yankee telecast a couple weeks ago mentioned Giambi and A-Rod being 1-2 in league OBP, and that the last pinstriped pair to manage that was Gehrig & DiMag. I'm sure a couple oldtimers keeled over on that one.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Don't tell Jay Mohr!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

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