July 3, 2024

All Star Starters

The voting is over for the All-Star batting starters. Both teams are loaded.

Which offense is better? I plugged the AL starters into the Lineup Analysis Tool (LAT). The best lineup should generate 7.09 runs per game, with Yankees Juan Soto and Aaron Judge at the top of the order, The eight slot usually goes to the worst batter on the team, and in this order that would be Adley Rutschman. The worst lineup would generate 6.54 runs per game.

Here are the NL starters analyzed by the LAT. The best lineup generates 6.71 runs per game. Christian Yelich and Bryce Harper top that lineup, with Tatis in the eighth slot. The one constant in the top lineups is Shohei Ohtanti batting fourth. The worst NL lineup would generate 6.32 runs per game.

Plugging the best lineup runs/game into the Pythagorean formula, the AL should have a .527 winning percentage against the NL. Two bad we won’t see these orders g against each other for a full game.

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