After four weeks of baseball, MLB averages 8.48 runs per game in 2016 as compared to 8.45 through four weeks of the 2015 season. Although scoring is the same, the seasons achieve that level in different ways. Walks and home runs are up. There are nearly 0.3 more home runs per game and 0.5 more walks per game. Pitchers, however, are striking out one more batter per game, and that means other hits are down about 0.2 per game. In the end, more batters are reaching base 24.0 per game compared to 23.5 last year. I’m somewhat surprised that scoring is not much higher than the same point in 2015. The majors did hit better with men on base and with men in scoring position in 2015 through the same period. It looks like there is potential for 2016 to pull way ahead of 2015.
You can follow the weekly run scoring in this spreadsheet, showing the ups and downs in scoring by week.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/23iy2xb
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