Thursday, September 28, 2023

Well, Fuck Rob Manfred has won on at least a couple points this season...

  • Ronald Acuna Jr. helped use the new rules on pitcher disengagements to steal, as of beginning of play tonight, 70 bases.  Last time that was beaten:  2008, Jose Reyes steals 78.
    • He will win the National League MVP:  He is the first member of the 40-70 Club:  40 home runs, 70 steals.
  • Attendance, as of the final weekend, up over 9% to the best in six years:  29,176 per game.
    • MLB hasn't seen 30,000 a game since 2017.
    • The record per game was in 2007:  32,785.
  • Philadelphia and Cincinnati led the increases, and only two teams actually lost more than 100,000 fans over the course of the season:  The White Sox and Nationals.
  • The Dodgers led attendance this year again -- as they had every full season since 2013.
    • Over 3.8 million, average 47,371.
  • Oakland actually made it to 10,000 a game -- the 832,000 fans were the least in baseball by 330,000.
    • Average:  10,275
    • Ironically, 31st in average is a team deep in the wild-card race:  Miami at 1.16 million, 14,355.
    • Tampa Bay, the second-best team in the American League, is 29th at about 17,800 a game.

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