Posted by japanstats on 2009 April 10日 Friday
Fun with early season statistics. 6 games into the Nippon Professional Baseball’s season, Hanshin Tigers’ Tomoaki “Aniki” Kanemoto has driven in 17 runs (4 HR, 29 TB, with a ridiculous slash line of .583/.593/1.208), and the 41 year old clean up hitter has topped it all off when he hit homeruns on 3 consecutive plate appearances to start off the game Wednesday in a 4 hit game against the Hiroshima Carp and drove in 7 of the team’s runs in the 8-2 win.
In the mean time, the entire lineup of the Yokohama BayStars have managed to score paltry 5 runs in their first 6 games against the Chunichi Dragons and the Yomiuri Giants. The team is collectively batting a pathetic .176 and the woeful pitching has a 7.24 ERA. No other team in the 12 team NPB has scored less than 25 runs in their first 5~6 games of the season. So, what’s the over/under on Yokohama’s first win of the season? How about a game where they score 5 or more runs? All hail the Aniki the Astonishing!

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Posted by japanstats on 2008 May 5日 Monday
Just did some comparisons of NPB and MLB offenses for 2005-07. Just scratching the surface here, so nothing deep yet.

R/G
|
Year・年
|
CL・セ
|
PL・パ
|
NPB
|
AL・ア
|
NL・ナ
|
MLB
|
平均試合
|
2005
|
4.40
|
4.46
|
4.43
|
4.76
|
4.45
|
4.59
|
得点
|
2006
|
4.12
|
3.92
|
4.03
|
4.96
|
4.76
|
4.86
|
|
2007
|
4.11
|
3.94
|
4.03
|
4.90
|
4.71
|
4.80
|

OPS
|
Year・年
|
CL・セ
|
PL・パ
|
NPB
|
AL・ア
|
NL・ナ
|
MLB
|
|
2005
|
0.739
|
0.739
|
0.739
|
0.754
|
0.744
|
0.749
|
|
2006
|
0.712
|
0.705
|
0.709
|
0.776
|
0.761
|
0.768
|
|
2007
|
0.724
|
0.701
|
0.713
|
0.760
|
0.756
|
0.758
|
Although Japanese baseball is known for its small ball from top to bottom (even though WBC was won with timely big bats), in 2005 NPB and MLB offenses exhibited very similar R/G and OPS numbers, then they diverged rather extremely after that (I don’t have NPB data for years before 2005, and wasn’t going to go beyond 3 years for analysis anyways, but it looks like a future project).
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