Why don't baseball standings adopt columns listing runs for and runs against.?
Question:This would be a great way to determine who has a good offense and who has a good pitching staff at a quick glance.
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Will the yankees make the playoffs this year?
ESPN.com and MLB.com both list RS and RA in their standings.Are the San Francisco Giants a good team?
prob dont think it really mattersWhat does it mean when a player is called up from minors-(not to report)?
i think team era and batting avg are good enough for thatWhat is the average batting average for a MLB player?
some other sports use it as one of the tie-breakers.Baseball doesnt..They use the team ERA thing..Good
enough i think....
Good idea, but space is money!!
Chow!!
Why are the Red Sox honoring the Celtics and Red (didn't he die in October?)?
When one looks at the standings all they want to know is what teams are in what spots. I believe the same and it should have wins, losses, winning percentage and games behind.What kind of action in a baseball game will get a retaliative action from the rival team?
That makes the news paper a little oversize by about an inch or two. You can always check the net.What the standings come down to is Wins and Losses. Nothing more. You can put stats in whatever list you want, but they're just sidenotes that have no meaning.
When tie-breakers are needed, the breakdown of individual series wins comes in play, not how many runs a team scored.
How often should my twelve year old son pitch?
As much as runs allowed and runs scored can tell a lot, they don't actually tell what you want them to as well as you wanted.Because of park factors, a hitters park will make a team's hitting look a lot better, and a pitching staff worse, and vice versa for a pitchers' park. No other sport has the disparity between ballparks than baseball has.
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