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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
Sure offenxe goes down across the board, but if you can't bring a guy home from second with no outs because you really solely on power, you are a lot worse off than a team that only needs a little bloop single.
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Power guys get bloop singles, too.
For every high k% team that misses the PO's (Mil, SD, TB) there are low SO% teams that have bad offences (LAA, OAK, NYY) - Looking at the stats, high SO doesn't make an offence good or bad.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_...ded/order/true
I totally get it. I wish we didn't strike out as much, i wish our AVG was higher, but we don't.
We do have a great offense despite this. Pillar is really the only one below average in terms of hitting (80 OPS+) and pillar and smoak are the only regulars with OBP lower that 320. (Smoak at 313, pillar at 922).
There are maybe 3 "weak spots" in the starting nine come POs.
Martin (.241/.340/.392) plays the worst offensive position in the game, traditionally, but gets on base and plays top 5 defence in AL at the position.
Smoak (.220/.313/.403). Decent fielder but obviously 1B could be an upgrade if he didnt sign a new deal. I don't know what the rational for that was.
Pillar (.261/.292/.385) again, plays a defensive first position and one of the better defenders in the league.
While each one of these guys is offensively below average on this team, they also help the Jays have one of the best defences in the league.
Everyone else in the top nine is above average by a pretty big margin.