Stolen Bases

Mets’ Stolen Base Stats and Other Tasty Tidbits
By Evan Pritchard for Amazine
Copyright 2007

Stolen Bases
August 19th, 2007

Stolen bases are an exciting part of baseball, and right at the moment, the Mets are leading the Major Leagues in stolen bases, and have the majors’ fastest 1-2-3-4 hitters in the line up as well.

Here are some interesting and unusual stats for your perusal.

Here are the fastest teams and their stolen base totals:
Mets........153
Angels......113
Orioles.....109
LA Dodgers..103
Phillies....100
Devil Rays...96
Twins........94
Yankees......92

The Mets have a huge lead over the rest of baseball in numbers of stolen bases so far this year. The Yankees are eighth in stolen bases. Here are the Mets’ starting four players at the top of the lineup and their stolen base averages, ie the steals per at bat.

PLAYER AB STLS ..SB % ...SB Ave
Reyes.... 515 ....63 80.8% ...122 (One every 9 AB!!!)
Castillo ...71.....3...100%......042
Wright.....462....25 ..89.3%.. ..054
Beltran... 407....16 ...88.9%. .042
Totals....1455...107.............074

The Mets’ starting four players in the daily lineup have a combined stolen bases average (per at bat) of .0735. Here are the best four stealers of the best-stealing teams, in order of standing, and their stealing average.

PLAYER.......AB ...STL...STL.AVE
Angels (113)
C. Figgins.... 375......33.. 0.040
O. Cabrera... 488......16.. 0.033
R. Willits..... .334.....25.. 0.075
G. Matthews....435..... 13.. 0.030
Totals..........1632.....87.. 0.053


Orioles (109)
Roberts.... 479 ..36.. 0.075
Patterson ..398 ...35.. 0.088
Markeakis ..478 ...16.. 0.033
M. Mora ..345 .....8.. 0.023
Totals ...1700 ....95.. 0.056

Dodgers(103)
Furcal 478 13 0.027
Pierre 510 50 0.098
Kemp 167 5 0.030
Martin 435 20 0.046
Totals 1590 88 0.055

Phillies (100)
Rollins 539 25 0.046
Iguchi 89 4 0.045
A Rowand 450 6 0.013
Utley 399 7 0.018
Victorino 409 32 0.653
Totals 1406 74 0.053

Here are the resulting SBAS, stolen base average standings for the top four players on each team.

Mets 0.074
Orioles 0.056
Dodgers 0.055
Phillies 0.053
Angels 0.053

As you see, the Mets are far ahead of the pack.

TID BITS, OTHER WEIRD STANDINGS
AUGUST 19th, 2007

National League Team Batting Averages

The Mets are only two points behind the NL leader in team batting average. Here are the standings:

Rockies .276
Braves .276
Phils .275
Mets .274



Cross-League Team ERA Leaders

Padres 3.49
Red Sox 3.80
Athletics 3.95
Mets 3.97
Blue Jays 3.99

The Mets are second in the NL and fourth in the majors in team ERA.

The Mets are currently the best road team in baseball.
TEAM ROAD RECORD
Mets 38-26
Tigers 37-29
Red Sox 34-27
D’backs 34-31
Braves 31-28

However, even though the Mets are 32-22 at home, ten games over .500, they are far down in the “best at home” race.
TEAM HOME
Dodgers 40-17
Yankees 41-24
Mariners 41-24
Milwaukee 40-25
Red Sox 40-23
D’backs 37-23
Indians 38-26
Rockies 35-23
Mets 32-22


Then, of course there is the OBABY (Overall Best in All Baseball, Yes!) award. The Mets currently have the fourth best record in baseball, and are second in the NL.

Red Sox 74+50 .597
Dodgers 72+51 .585
Mariners 69+52 .570
Mets 70+53 .569
D’backs 71+54 .568




El Duque is winning the race for the Lucky Shower award: The Mets are 11-1 in his last 12 starts.