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The following is recap of the Wild Things' record and attendance figures at the all-star break each season, along with a hitting statistic that Washington first baseman Ernie Banks (pictured) leads the league in by a large margin.
This is the first time Washington has been as low as fifth place in the standings at the break and eight games out of first place is the most they've trailed the division leader. In 2006, they were in fourth place, 7 1/2 games out of first, and still made the playoffs.
The first-half attendance slipped for the second year in a row (though only by 165 per game, which in this economy isn't bad) and is at the franchise's all-time low. A game this year against Gateway drew a paid attendance of only 1,340 – the smallest in franchise history – and there couldn't have been more than 500 people in the park.
RECORD AT THE BREAK:
2002 - 23-16
2003 - 26-20
2004 - 30-17
2005 - 27-18
2006 - 21-22
2007 - 28-17
2008 - 26-24
2009 - 21-27
ATTENDANCE AT THE BREAK (PER GAME)
2002 - 2,942
2003 - 3,390
2004 - 3,242
2005 - 3,048
2006 - 3,133
2007 - 3,180
2008 - 2,899
2009 - 2,734
One of the sabremetric categories is Batting Average on Balls in Play. This is a measure of the number of batted balls that safely fall in for a hit. The sabremetrics people do not include home runs when calculating this, but for our purposes we will. If you take every Frontier League hitter with at least 100 at-bats and toss out their strikeouts, no player has a higher batting average than Ernie Banks, not even Rockford's Jason James, who has a 38-game hitting streak. In other words, when Banks makes contact, he's been hitting like, well, the other Ernie Banks.
The 5 highest batting averages of balls in play:
.526 - Ernie Banks, Washington
.480 - Joseph Scaperotta, Gateway
.473 - Jason James, Rockford
.446 - Charlie Lisk, Gateway
.436 - Frank Meade, Evansville
This is the first time Washington has been as low as fifth place in the standings at the break and eight games out of first place is the most they've trailed the division leader. In 2006, they were in fourth place, 7 1/2 games out of first, and still made the playoffs.
The first-half attendance slipped for the second year in a row (though only by 165 per game, which in this economy isn't bad) and is at the franchise's all-time low. A game this year against Gateway drew a paid attendance of only 1,340 – the smallest in franchise history – and there couldn't have been more than 500 people in the park.
RECORD AT THE BREAK:
2002 - 23-16
2003 - 26-20
2004 - 30-17
2005 - 27-18
2006 - 21-22
2007 - 28-17
2008 - 26-24
2009 - 21-27
ATTENDANCE AT THE BREAK (PER GAME)
2002 - 2,942
2003 - 3,390
2004 - 3,242
2005 - 3,048
2006 - 3,133
2007 - 3,180
2008 - 2,899
2009 - 2,734
One of the sabremetric categories is Batting Average on Balls in Play. This is a measure of the number of batted balls that safely fall in for a hit. The sabremetrics people do not include home runs when calculating this, but for our purposes we will. If you take every Frontier League hitter with at least 100 at-bats and toss out their strikeouts, no player has a higher batting average than Ernie Banks, not even Rockford's Jason James, who has a 38-game hitting streak. In other words, when Banks makes contact, he's been hitting like, well, the other Ernie Banks.
The 5 highest batting averages of balls in play:
.526 - Ernie Banks, Washington
.480 - Joseph Scaperotta, Gateway
.473 - Jason James, Rockford
.446 - Charlie Lisk, Gateway
.436 - Frank Meade, Evansville
Labels: Ernie Banks, Record at break
11 Comments:
Transactions being made over the all star break....
No concert updates? Anyone go to the show on Monday night?
Regarding the concert...had friends who sat in traffic for over 2 hrs. No parking available in at the ballfield...only at the Mall with a $2/person shuttle fee. By the time they got there Willie Nelson was already done and so they decided not even to buy tickets...turned around and went home!
Tell them to show up early like most people. Gates opened at 5 o'clock. Willie didn't go on until 6.
"show up early...."
people started lining up at 6:30 AM!!!
Wait until next year's concert when they put out their cigarette butts on the tax payer turf.
Would it be natural to smoke grass on taxpayer turf?
either than the traffic, another parking circus, the concert was great. I had a great time.
Parking, Politics, And Taxpayers and the field...will it ever end? Wow.
Parking, Politics, And Taxpayers and the field...will it ever end? Wow.
Will YOU ever go away?
Having a high average on batted balls isn't always a good thing. It usually means that the hitter is very lucky.
"Having a high average on batted balls isn't always a good thing."
Hahaha. That might be the dumbest thing ever written on this blog ... and that's saying something
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