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Fitbit IX – Week 22

Another decent week, as I managed to extend my streak of 30,000-step weeks to six.  Things got off to a decent-enough start on Sunday, finishing with 4100 steps as I flew home from Seattle.  The Juneteenth holiday led to a slow Monday, finishing 21 steps away from 2800.  Going back to work on Tuesday led to a big increase, falling just 28 steps shy of 4800.  Wednesday saw a slowdown, dropping down to 3700 steps.  Thursday jumped back up again, ending with 4400 steps.  A slow Friday left me 14 steps away from 3500.  The week ended on a high note, as a well-attended game between the Red Sox and the White Sox led to me having to park in Lot G, which led to 6800 steps on Saturday.

Total steps: 30,140

Daily average: 4305.7

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It Hasn’t Been A While

Coming in to the 2023 season, I had seen every team since the pandemic-stricken 2020 season save two: the Pirates, who I had last seen in 2019, and the Marlins, who I hadn’t seen in person since 2013.  This week, I knocked both of those teams off the list, with the Marlins coming through Guaranteed Rate Field this past weekend and the Pirates in town at Wrigley Field this week.

Less than halfway through the 2023 season, I’ve already seen fourteen of the 30 clubs, just under half.  That number jumps to 25 when we turn the clock back to 2022.  That’s 83% of the league that I’ve seen in less than a season and a half.  The remaining five I saw in 2021, and I’m sure at least two or three will make an appearance in the second half of 2023.  Anyway, here’s a look at each team and the last time I saw them play.

Most Recent Game By Team

Team Name Date
Washington Nationals 5/19/2021
St. Louis Cardinals 5/26/2021
San Diego Padres 6/1/2021
Boston Red Sox 9/11/2021
Cincinnati Reds 9/28/2021
Seattle Mariners 4/12/2022
Los Angeles Angels 4/30/2022
New York Yankees 5/15/2022
Los Angeles Dodgers 6/8/2022
Texas Rangers 6/12/2022
Atlanta Braves 6/18/2022
Toronto Blue Jays 6/20/2022
Colorado Rockies 7/27/2022
Oakland Athletics 7/30/2022
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A Roster Shakeup

After a disappointing (to put it mildly) April, the White Sox looked to shake things up in May, making eleven roster moves prior to yesterday’s game.  To put this into perspective, reassigning eleven players at one time during spring training would be highly irregular.  Making eleven roster moves on one day during the regular season is unheard of.  Twenty percent of the active roster changed!  In one day!

To start things off, Tim Anderson and Hanser Alberto were activated from the injured list.  Joining them from Triple A are pitchers Alexander (nee Alex) Colome and Sammy Peralta and outfielder Billy Hamilton.  To make room for these five, Joe Kelly was placed on the paternity list, Romy Gonzalez was placed on the injured list, Oscar Colas and Lenyn Sosa were demoted to Triple A, and Jake Diekman was designated for assignment.  In addition, Frank German was designated for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster.

Diekman was the big (and lone) acquisition the White Sox made at the trade deadline last year.  To say he has been a bust would be quite the understatement.  Since being acquired from the Red Sox, Diekman has posted a 7.04 ERA in 39 games.  In thirteen games in April, that ERA ballooned to 7.94.

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All Time Team Records

After a long winter, the 2023 baseball season gets underway today.  To celebrate, it is time once again to look at the all-time team records for games that I have identified as having attended dating back to 1984.  Last year, I tied 2012 for my 16th highest game total of all time, a big drop-off from the year before, and managed to see 20 out of the 30 teams, so there should be some nice changes.

The White Sox look to bounce back after a disappointing 2022, with a new manager hoping to regain the AL Central crown and move past the ALDS in the post-season, while the Cubs are finally hoping to be back in the conversation when it comes to the NL playoff picture.  The 2023 season should be an interesting one on both sides of town.

All-Time Team Records

Team Name Won Loss Winning Pctg
California Angels 2 0 1.000
Arizona Diamondbacks 15 2 0.882
Cleveland Guardians 2 1 0.667
Florida Marlins 15 8 0.652
New York Yankees 19 12 0.613
Colorado Rockies 11 7 0.611
Boston Red Sox 19 13 0.594
Los Angeles Angels 20 15 0.571
Toronto Blue Jays 15 12 0.556
Philadelphia Phillies 11 9 0.550
Washington Nationals 7 6 0.538
Cleveland Indians 31 27 0.534
Chicago White Sox 351 321 0.522
Chicago Cubs 226 211 0.517
Houston Astros Continue reading →
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Team Stats: Games Per Team

Today, we wrap up our look at the all-time rankings for all iterations of the current 30 teams for the 1040 games I’ve identified that I have attended.  Opening Day is just under two months away and spring training camps are getting ready to roll in just a week or two, so let’s finish things off with the total number of games per team.

With the newly unbalanced schedule starting this year, the Central Division in each league will not score as heavily going forward.  In fact, you have to drop down to seventh place in the current rankings to find a team not in the Central Division and to tenth place to find the first team that was never in the Central.  The addition of expanded interleague play should also shake things up a bit moving forward.

Games Per Team

Team Name Total Games
Chicago White Sox 672
Chicago Cubs 437
Minnesota Twins 68
Kansas City Royals 62
Detroit Tigers 59
Cleveland Indians 58
Houston Astros 49
Pittsburgh Pirates 46
Milwaukee Brewers 41
Seattle Mariners 40
Cincinnati Reds 40
Texas Rangers 39
Baltimore Orioles 36
Los Angeles Angels 35
St. Louis Cardinals Continue reading →
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Team Stats: Home Runs

It will be two months until baseball returns to Chicago, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit, for the first time in six years, the all-time rankings in both offensive and defensive categories for all iterations of the current 30 teams for the 1040 games I’ve identified that I have attended.  We continue today on the offensive side of the ball with home runs.

As you might expect by this point, the White Sox and Cubs, based on the raw numbers, are far and away the leaders in this category, as they are, as always, the teams I’ve seen most often.  When you adjust the numbers per game, the California incarnation of the Angels and the Guardians are the only teams at or above two home runs per game.  The Nationals and the Anaheim version of the Angels are the only teams with less than a home run every other game.

Home Runs

TeamName TotalTriples
Chicago White Sox 811
Chicago Cubs 498
Cleveland Indians 72
Kansas City Royals 68
Detroit Tigers 66
Minnesota Twins 65
Seattle Mariners 58
Texas Rangers 49
Boston Red Sox 49
Houston Astros 48
Milwaukee Brewers 45
New York Yankees 44
St. Louis Cardinals 42
Oakland Athletics 42
Baltimore Orioles Continue reading →
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Team Stats: Earned Run Average

With less than three months until baseball returns to Chicago, I thought it would be a good time to revisit, for the first time in six years, the all-time rankings in both offensive and defensive categories for all iterations of the current 30 teams for the 1040 games I’ve identified that I have attended.  We wrap up the defensive side of the ball today with earned run average.

Both the White Sox and Cubs find themselves in the middle of the pack for team ERA, with the Cubs coming in at 14th with 4.00 and the White Sox at 17th with a team ERA of 4.20.  The Anaheim iteration of the Angels lead the way, finishing mere percentage points below 2.60.  The Devil Rays are on the opposite end of the spectrum, clocking in just over 5.95.

Earned Run Average

Team Name ERA
Anaheim Angels 2.59620377314948
Arizona Diamondbacks 2.92054914270955
Washington Nationals 3.16720186512999
Montreal Expos 3.4000755572346
Los Angeles Dodgers 3.41129032258065
Colorado Rockies 3.58507711650256
Los Angeles Angels 3.65023417507605
San Francisco Giants 3.69195184152779
Boston Red Sox 3.70899413615711
Oakland Athletics 3.84286934244236
Tampa Bay Rays 3.87647371109753
Miami Marlins 3.9375
Philadelphia Phillies 3.96004525766009
Chicago Cubs 3.99524314872638
New York Mets Continue reading →
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Team Stats: Runs Batted In

It will be less than three months until baseball returns to Chicago, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit, for the first time in six years, the all-time rankings in both offensive and defensive categories for all iterations of the current 30 teams for the 1040 games I’ve identified that I have attended.  We continue today on the offensive side of the ball with runs batted in.

Based on the raw numbers, the White Sox and Cubs are far and away the leaders in this category, as they are the teams I’ve seen most often.  When you adjust the numbers per game, the California iteration of the Angels and the Guardians lead the way as the only teams over seven.  The Nationals and the Miami incarnation of the Marlins are the only teams that failed to average three runs batted in per game.

Runs Batted In

Team Name RBIs
Chicago White Sox 2943
Chicago Cubs 1899
Cleveland Indians 286
Minnesota Twins 261
Kansas City Royals 247
Detroit Tigers 247
Houston Astros 221
Milwaukee Brewers 194
Texas Rangers 182
Boston Red Sox 174
Pittsburgh Pirates 172
Cincinnati Reds 169
Seattle Mariners 161
New York Yankees 160
Baltimore Orioles 148
Los Angeles Angels 137
St. Louis Cardinals 135
Los Angeles Dodgers 126
Oakland Athletics 124
Florida Marlins 120
Toronto Blue Jays 115
Arizona Diamondbacks 101
Tampa Bay Rays 96
Atlanta Braves 85
Philadelphia Phillies 79
San Diego Padres 76
San Francisco Giants 76
New York Mets 71
Colorado Rockies 64
Washington Nationals 40
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 32
Cleveland Guardians 22
Montreal Expos 19
California Angels 15
Anaheim Angels 7
Miami Marlins 4

Runs Batted In per Game

Team Name RBIs per Game
California Angels 7.5
Cleveland Guardians 7.33333333333333
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6.4
Arizona Diamondbacks 5.94117647058824
Boston Red Sox 5.4375
Florida Marlins 5.21739130434783
New York Yankees 5.16129032258065
Cleveland Indians 4.93103448275862
Milwaukee Brewers 4.73170731707317
Texas Rangers 4.66666666666667
Houston Astros 4.51020408163265
Chicago White Sox 4.37946428571429
Chicago Cubs 4.34553775743707
Los Angeles Dodgers 4.3448275862069
Toronto Blue Jays 4.25925925925926
Cincinnati Reds 4.225
Detroit Tigers 4.1864406779661
New York Mets 4.17647058823529
Tampa Bay Rays 4.17391304347826
Baltimore Orioles Continue reading →
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Team Stats: Strike Outs

The new year means there is less than three months until baseball returns to Chicago.  I thought it would be a good time to revisit, for the first time in six years, the all-time rankings in both offensive and defensive categories for all iterations of the current 30 teams for the 1040 games I’ve identified that I have attended.  After a break for the holidays, we continue today on the defensive side of the ball with strike outs.

As always, the White Sox and Cubs are the leaders in this category based on the raw numbers, as they are the teams I’ve seen in action most often.  When you adjust the numbers per game, both teams still fare well, placing fourth and third respectively.  The California version of the Angels lead the way. with an even nine strike outs per game.  The Miami iteration of the Marlins and the Devil Rays bring up the rear with an even five strike outs per game.

Strike Outs

Team Name Strike Outs
Chicago White Sox 5387
Chicago Cubs 3558
Kansas City Royals 463
Minnesota Twins 457
Cleveland Indians 440
Detroit Tigers 407
Houston Astros 350
Milwaukee Brewers 320
Pittsburgh Pirates 295
Seattle Mariners 271
Los Angeles Angels 254
Cincinnati Reds 251
Texas Rangers 247
New York Yankees 240
Boston Red Sox Continue reading →
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The White Sox Get Their Man

The hot stove warmed up a bit this past Friday as word broke that the White Sox had signed former Red Sox/Royal/Yankee outfielder Andrew Benintendi to a five-year, $75 million contract.  Slotting into left field, Benintendi strengthens the outfield defense, where the White Sox have been playing first basemen out of position for most of the past two seasons, and adds a much needed lefty bat to the lineup.

The addition of Benintendi likely spells the end of Eloy Jimenez as an everyday outfielder and pushes the slugger into the DH role he was destined to inhabit.  He should also add some balance to a lineup that has struggled against right handed pitching over much of the past two seasons.

Benintendi has been a long target of the White Sox.  They were linked to him in the 2015 draft, where the Red Sox selected him one pick before the White Sox selected Carson Fulmer.  He was also rumored to be a target in the Chris Sale trade, which eventually netted fellow Red Sox prospect Yoan Moncada.  Not to mention that Benintendi spent the most of the past two seasons with the Royals, alongside new White Sox manager Pedro Grifol and coaches Mike Tosar and Eddie Rodríguez.

Benintendi’s $75 million contract now becomes the largest deal in franchise history, surpassing Yasmani Grandal’s $73 million deal inked prior to the 2020 season.  At this rate, the White Sox will crack the nine-figure contract mark in 2048.