Author Topic: General Offense Discussion (Read 26284 times)

PC · « **Reply #575:** May 26, 2012, 09:57:42 PM »

Seattle has scored more runs than we have. So has Minnesota, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco...

I didn't know the hole we were in was THAT deep.

Smithian · « **Reply #576:** May 26, 2012, 10:05:32 PM »

Hey Chief, we need an update on runs scored compared to previous years. I wonder if we're catching up.

The Chief · « **Reply #577:** May 27, 2012, 09:29:37 AM »

Through 46 games:

wpa2629 · « **Reply #578:** May 27, 2012, 09:43:30 AM »

2007 makes Baby Jesus cry

Smithian · « **Reply #579:** May 27, 2012, 11:13:02 AM »

Whenever I look at 2009 all I can ask myself is how awful was our pitching? That's a solid offense and 2009 we got our butts kicked on the regular

Slateman · « **Reply #580:** May 27, 2012, 11:10:33 PM »

Quote from: Smithian on May 27, 2012, 11:13:02 AM

Whenever I look at 2009 all I can ask myself is how awful was our pitching? That's a solid offense and 2009 we got our butts kicked on the regular

John Lannan was the Ace.

What's the league average offense right now?

BerkeleyNat · « **Reply #581:** May 27, 2012, 11:34:08 PM »

Its pretty obvious that are problem is that we have not been playing enough games against the Braves.

Smithian · « **Reply #582:** May 27, 2012, 11:38:39 PM »

Quote from: Slateman on May 27, 2012, 11:10:33 PM

John Lannan was the Ace.

What's the league average offense right now?

Leave average of runs has dropped a small bit since 2009 I believe

DPMOmaha · « **Reply #583:** May 30, 2012, 12:18:11 AM »

Nats have the fifth best run differential in baseball at +27.

The Chief · « **Reply #584:** June 04, 2012, 03:30:07 PM »

through 52 games:

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #585:** June 04, 2012, 03:51:48 PM »

heading to our best offense without a 38 home run hitter . . .

The Chief · « **Reply #586:** June 04, 2012, 03:51:55 PM »

Nats teams' R/G through the end of May as a percentage of league (NL) average R/G through the end of May:

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #587:** June 04, 2012, 04:22:19 PM »

Last graph is nice. So, relative to the league, this offense is comparable to the Soriano team but behind what we have been used to over the past 3 years. 2007 really has to be the "huh?" year given how bad our offense was and our pitching. Acta for Manager of the Year!

LostYudite · « **Reply #588:** June 04, 2012, 05:06:15 PM »

Quote from: The Chief on June 04, 2012, 03:51:55 PM

Nats teams' R/G through the end of May as a percentage of league (NL) average R/G through the end of May:

This is cool and telling me that the offense is what I think a lot of folks thought it would be - slightly, but not hugely, worse than league-average. If Morse and Zim come around, we could claw our way back to solidly middle. That and the pitching should keep us in it.

Slateman · « **Reply #589:** June 12, 2012, 04:09:02 PM »

Any updates Chief?

Also, just a friendly reminder: If you order Papa Johns online and type in NATS50 in to the promo code, your order is half off.

5 runs + win = half off the next day

MorseTheHorse · « **Reply #590:** June 21, 2012, 09:47:25 AM »

I'm sure people will enjoy this:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/qa-rick-eckstein-nationals-hitting-coach/

Lintyfresh85 · « **Reply #591:** June 21, 2012, 09:49:55 AM »

Posted in the Eckstein thread.

MorseTheHorse · « **Reply #592:** June 21, 2012, 09:51:04 AM »

ah my bad

Lintyfresh85 · « **Reply #593:** June 21, 2012, 09:52:56 AM »

No problem!

Slumpbuster · « **Reply #594:** June 23, 2012, 10:38:17 PM »

Another win chalked up to great pitching and defense but how long can it last?

wpa2629 · « **Reply #595:** June 23, 2012, 10:49:10 PM »

The Nats top 4 starters have a sub 3.00 ERA, that's happened like three times in history. And the Pen has been rock solid. The answer is, with pitching like that, it can last a long time.

Kevrock · « **Reply #596:** June 23, 2012, 10:57:19 PM »

Hitting is our weakness, pitching is our strength. Get used to it.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #597:** June 23, 2012, 11:00:09 PM »

so I guess you are not saying it was our worst offensive performance in history.
This is more a general comment on the offense.

welch · « **Reply #598:** June 23, 2012, 11:41:46 PM »

Left 16 runners on base. That's bad. Got eight hits...that's OK...Zim needs a rest.

DPMOmaha · « **Reply #599:** June 23, 2012, 11:43:52 PM »

I feel like I've seen this conversation before.