Both the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks have been slightly less successful away from their home parks - though unlike Colorado, both of those teams have also struggled greatly at home.)Įven as the team struggles on the road, Colorado has seen some unique individual performances this season. (You want more outliers? The Rockies don’t even have the worst - or second-worst! - road record of any team this year. They are truly a totally different team depending on where you happen to be playing them. Not only is that overall gap the largest of any team since the divisional era began in 1969, but the 2021 Rockies have the 81st-best home record of any team in that span 2 while simultaneously boasting the 13th-worst road record in the sample. One has been the team’s historic home-road split, which currently sits at a staggering 400 points of winning percentage between when the team plays at Coors Field (43-22) and anywhere else (17-48). So weird statistical quirks just come with the territory in Denver. We’ve written extensively about the Colorado Rockies being an outlier in their very existence - playing as they do at MLB’s highest-elevation home park (by a very wide margin). The fact that he is both, however, makes him arguably the biggest outlier in the history of the sport. If Ohtani was either of those things alone, he would be one of baseball’s top players.
But he’s a pitcher! Specifically, a pitcher with MLB’s 22nd-best ERA and 22nd-best strikeout-minus-walk differential (among pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched). He currently ranks second in baseball in total bases behind Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and he is one of just four hitters - along with Guerrero, Bryce Harper and Fernando Tatís Jr. It cannot be overstated just how remarkable Ohtani’s 2021 season has been. 1 and 2 in WAR since the start of MLB’s expansion era in 1961. If that lead holds up, Ohtani’s edge would be the largest since Barry Bonds finished the 2002 season 2.8 WAR per 162 ahead of runner-up Alex Rodriguez, and the sixth-widest margin between Nos. WAR is measured using JEFFBAGWELL ( Joint Estimate Featuring FanGraphs and B-R Aggregated to Generate WAR, Equally Leveling Lists), which averages the metrics found at and FanGraphs. MLB leaders in combined wins above replacement (WAR) as either a batter or pitcher, 2021 season Ohtani has been in a league of his own this year
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