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Wednesday, December 6, 2006

AL Outfield Arms

Yesterday at Reds and (Blues), I made some observations about NL outfield arms using information presented by John Dewan in THT's 2007 Annual. Let's take a look at the AL. Kills are runners gunned down by an outfielder's direct throw (unlike assists, outs with relay throws are not included) and Opps are opportunities the opposition had to take an extra base:

Team     Kills     Opps      Ratio
LAA      26        411       .063
TOR      24        410       .059
TEX      28        517       .054
TBR      25        521       .046
DET      18        411       .044
SEA      20        486       .041
BAL      20        486       .041
MIN      18        422       .043
KCR      19        534       .035
NYA      17        492       .034
BOS      15        454       .033
OAK      15        474       .032
CLE      14        503       .028
CHA       8        455       .018

Not surprisingly, the noodle arm Indians were near the bottom of this list. However, as I said with the NLers, Kills don't necessarily correlate to preventing runners from advancing. Let’s look at Runners Advanced Percentage (remember, the lower the number, the better):

         Advanced %    
TOR      .439
OAK      .464
DET      .470
SEA      .471
TEX      .472
BAL      .475
MIN      .483
LAA      .489
CLE      .505
KCR      .517
CHA      .519
NYA      .524
TBR      .526
BOS      .526

AL outfielders are much better at preventing runners from advancing than their NL counterparts. Eight teams in the AL had a better Advance Percentage than the NL's best (Reds) while the NL had eight teams with a worse Advance Percentage than the AL's worst. I would say most of this has to do with league tendencies rather than talent in the outfield.

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