A few weeks ago the Twins looked like they might finish the season on strong note. A 10-7 stretch that ended on Aug. 17th brought their record to 49-71, a .408 winning percentage. That’s a level where you might be a decent team that suffered bad luck. Since then, however, the team lost 13 games in a row.
The problems of the Twins in this stretch can be summed up in two slash lines. Twins hitters produced a .230/.282/.356 line during this period. It’s worse than the MLB average for catchers (.244/.311/.395). It’s close to the MLB average for pinch hitters, .213/.299/.343, which says something about the deplorable state of pinch hitting in baseball today. In other words, the entire Twins offense is performing like a group of hitters than came into the game cold.
On the other side, Twins pitchers and defense allowed a .323/.400/.564 slash line. There are years that might win an MVP award, and in terms of BA and slugging percentage, it’s very close to Mike Trout’s line for the season. A staff that turns the opposition into Mike Trout is not one that should last long in the major leagues.
The Twins are playing about as poorly as a team can play on both sides of the ball. I suppose the batters could sink to the level of pitchers, and the opposition could rise to the level of Barry Bonds in the early aughties, but that would mean the Twins went full King Lear.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2bUj5OP
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