You're right. I swear, when I checked yesterday we were at 754 on fangraphs, and I added 5 after yesterday's win.Originally Posted by Bellhorn04
Hmm...I have checked, double-checked, and triple-checked, and I still have 749 minus 620 coming out to 129.
Even at 129. my point is still valid, if we still led the league in runs scored as our number is on pace to have done against 2016's totals, we'd have to have a run differential of over 200. That very well might have had us up by 15 right by season's end.
The issue is two fold:
1) We scored about a hundred less runs this year (but also will let up much less).
2) The rest of the league has scored way more runs than last year (mostly as a result of much more HRs).
Here's a look at the top scoring teams (700 or more runs scored or projected to score) from 2016 and (projected) 2017 teams:
(I added 5% to all 2017 teams.)
878 BOS '16
871 HOU '17
857 NYY '17
824 CLE '17
819 MIN '17
814 TEX '17
787 BOS '17
777 CLE '16
768 SEA '16
765 TEX '16
763 BAL '17
759 TOR '16
753 SEA '17
751 DET '17
750 DET '16
744 BAL '16
740 OAK '17
724 HOU '16
722 MIN '16
717 LAA '16
714 KCR '17
710 CWS '17
701 LAA '17
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