August 9, 2011

A Season in a Game

Jeff Sullivan notes that the Mariners/Rangers game took 162 minutes, the same number of games in a season. I wonder, if you assigned a win or loss to each minute, how would the teams do? Given that Texas won 9-2, I suspect they dominated. I suppose you could put a time stamp on the ups and downs in the win probability graph, and minutes with no change gives each team 1/2 win.

Mike Napoli continues to be one of the great pickups of the winter, going 2 for 3 with a walk to raise his slash line to .299/.398/.611. Napoli’s WAR stands at 3.4 wins, Vernon Wells at 0.2, so one could argue that this trade is the reason the Rangers lead the Angels by 1 1/2 games.

2 thoughts on “A Season in a Game

  1. Casey Abell

    Sooner or later Napoli will return to earth, defined as something more like his career .853 OPS. But the Rangers are getting everything they can out of him in a close race that shouldn’t be close.

    Hard to believe, but Napoli often sat at the start of the season so the Rangers could get Torrealba’s mighty .720-OPS bat into the lineup. At least Napoli is playing every day now.

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