2012 Player Stats

I saw Felix pitch in over a quarter of all the games I went to.  He had some hits and misses, but the last start really skewed the stats.  Not indicative of his overall "ace" stuff.  The Mariners finally gave him a little bit of run support, as well.  Seven of the games we scored 4 or more runs and were 4-3.  He was the only one with a complete game.


Below you will see the monthly stats compiled by all hitters.  The .227 average over 47 games is not acceptable.  The only month we were semi respectable was June.  Take out the total PA and we struck out 20.7% of the plate appearances.  That is a slight improvement over last year, but no thanks.  The .227 is a slight improvement as well, but this could be because I attended more games and therefore larger sample size to work from.

Like last year I compared the batters with over 100 AB.  This year there were 8. It is organized by OBP, BAA, and plate appearances.  Then I weighed them based on several factors.  I ranked each player based on their position in each category and in conclusion Jaso was far and away the top hitter.  No wonder I like the guy so much.  He ranked number one in on base percentage, batting average, walk/so ratio, and rbi per plate appearance.  Next best was Wells.  These two players had the least amount of at-bats but they were more efficient.

A good batter will have an OBP of at least 75 points higher than their BA.   A great one will be 100 or more above.  The team was 67 points for the year. For the eight players, here is how they ranked:

1. Jaso (.111)
2. Ryan (.106)
3. Saunders (.071)
4. Wells (.070)
5. Ackley (.058)
6. Smoak (.056)
7. Seager (.050)
8. Montero (.036) 

Here are the players listed by the percent of their hits being extra bases.  Overall the team percentage was 28.61%

1. Wells (40.00%)
2. Jaso (34.78%)
3. Saunders (34.48%)
4. Seager (28.95%)
5. Smoak (27.59%)
6. Montero (24.44%)
7. Ryan (19.05%)
8. Ackley (15.00%)

Let's look at the Strikeouts per Walk ratio.  The lower, the better. Team combined for 2.60 strikeouts per walk.

1. Jaso (.875:1)
2. Ryan (1.44:1)
3. Ackley (2.43:1)
4. Smoak (2.50:1)
5. Seager (2.54:1)
6. Saunders (3.00:1)
7. Montero (4.14:1)

Finally, RBI percentage based on number of plate appearances.  Granted it is a little off because top and bottom of the order are less likely to get RBIs.  Still, I find it interesting.  As a whole the team had an RBI in 8.25% of its plate appearances.

1. Jaso (17.48%)
2. Montero (11.49%)
3. Wells (10.38%)
4. Seager (8.06%)
5. Smoak (6.54%)
6. Ryan (5.34%)
7. Saunders (5.13%)
8. Ackley (3.83%)

If we "weigh" all the leaders in the categories I talked about above, here is a list of the top batters for the year.  There are 7 categories: OBP, BAA, PA, BAA above OBP, XBH%, BB/K, and RBI %. 

1. Jaso
2. Wells
3. Montero
4. Seager
5. Ackley
6. Ryan
7. Saunders
8. Smoak

Like I stated above, Jaso was far and away the top batter.   Montero through Saunders were only separated by 4 points so let's call it a tie.

Hoping that in 2013 the hitting will continue to improve.  I see a little bit of a trend in the right direction.

2012 Year End Recap

Boy oh boy, 2012 was quite a year.  I witnessed a Perfect Game, a combined No-Hitter, and got to see Ichiro finally get traded! I went to a total of 47 games for a combined 23-24 record. 

 

As with last year, the worst day to go to was Saturday.  We were 0-9 last year, thankfully I saw a few more wins this time around.  They had a total of 15 one run games, we were 8-7 in these games.  Once again the stats show that if they scored more than 4 runs in a game they were likely to win with a 16-5 record.

As you can see from the stats, I saw the Mariners play 16 different teams, 3 NL and all AL teams.  Our record in Inter-league games was 3-3.  It isn't surprising that the top three teams I saw most frequently were from our division.  38% of the time I hit Safeco I had the pleasure of watching us take on our division (7-11).  That's not good, you need to beat your own division, especially at home!  We particularly sucked against the Angels.

Now I will show a game of all game results organized by date played.  I will do another post on individual batter/pitcher statistics.  As you can see by the chart below, losses are in red and wins in black.  The Perfect Game and Combined No-Hitter are in bold and underlined (games 6 and 15). 
 
The Greatest Loss was on Opening Night, as we lost by 8 runs to Cleveland.  Our Largest Win was the final game at 12-0

Average attendance per game I attended was 20,526 down from 22,798 last year.  The average time of game was 2:51.  The shortest game of the year (Game 10) clocked in at 2:06, and the longest was in Game 3 at 3:33.  The next day they had the smallest crowd of the year at 11,343.  Opening Day was the only sellout.

Sep/Oct Games Recaps

The Mariners went 4-7 the final month of the regular season to end in 23-24 for the year.  It started out terribly with losing the first six. The Mariners scored 37 runs and their opponents 40, but 12 of those runs came on the final day for us.  We scored 1 run in five games, winning just one of them.  The average attendance was 16,652 vs 22,559 in August.

Our starting pitchers had a higher combined ERA at 3.71 vs 3.12 in August. The starters accounted for 71% of the innings pitched compared to 75% in August.  They accounted for 80% of the runs given up. Felix had is worst month of the season, by far.

Our OBP was a respectable 69 points higher than our average, compared to only 26 points in August.  Of our 96 total hits, 32.2% were extra base hits compared to 28.9% in August.  Smoak had a great month as well as Montero, with Ackley falling off.