Only 3 NL teams have a .500 record in interleague play.
2006-07-04 05:46:34 · 16 answers · asked by chicagoan86 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Pitching..the AL has dominatre pitching..b/t starters like Curt schilling..Josh Beckett...Johan Santana..Randy Johnson..Liriano w/e from the twins...jose contreas...mark buhrle..roy halladay..and a ton more...and they also have dominate closers like Mariano rivera..jonathon papelbon..bobby jenks..bj ryan...pitching wins
2006-07-04 06:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by yea 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"...most of them don't even break the .100 line..." I checked pitchers who have had at least 10 plate appearances in the 2010 season. There are 79 pitchers who meet this criteria, through games of 02-June. Of these, 56 are batting .100 or higher (SD's LeBlanc and Arizona's Haren topping the heap with .400 marks), and 23 are batting below the half-Mendoza. A full ten of those 23 are at rock bottom, batting .000, with Pittsburgh's Maholm doing the worst, zero for 22. "...strikeout 80% of the time..." Surprisingly, this is true for 30 pitchers so far this year. Eighteen have whiffed in their one at-bat, eight have struck out two out of two times, and two others have three Ks in three times up. Haegar has five Ks in six AB, and Morton, 9 Ks in 11 AB. Going by our minimum 10 PA cutoff from above, that reduces the group to just Morton. It's hardly an epidemic. Pitchers get to the majors through a thorough evolutionary screening, and those that survive are selected for their pitching skills, which have almost no relation to their hitting abilities. A pitcher who can hit is a bonus, but no pitchers get to the show by being a good hitter, because he has to be a good pitcher first.
2016-03-27 03:39:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a combination of things. There are more teams with liberal wallets in the AL, the pitching is watered down in the NL, there are 2 more teams to compete with in the NL, the DH rule.
2006-07-04 06:06:38 · answer #3 · answered by djblitz11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AL has just been a tougher leage the past few years, just look at the all star game record the AL have won it 9 out of the last 10 times i believe or close to it
2006-07-04 17:06:40 · answer #4 · answered by CubsFan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't count them out of the All-Star Game, though. At this point, it's the only interleague game that matters.
2006-07-04 06:04:25 · answer #5 · answered by Baseball Fanatic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
more big budget teams in the AL now,
plus traditional NL power Atlanta is really having a bad year.
2006-07-04 05:50:09 · answer #6 · answered by noshyuz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American leagues hitters r better. Many national league hitters suk. there's only like one player in each team in N.L who has a .300 BA. If you look at american league there's a lot of teams who have more than one hitter over the .300 average, for example white sox, tigers, yankees, red sox, blue jays
2006-07-04 06:00:00 · answer #7 · answered by Salman Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know they were bad....cuz its all about the AL so I don't pay any attension to the NL.
2006-07-04 06:45:29 · answer #8 · answered by royalsgirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they dont have any good hitters to put in the DH spot and AL hitters are better.
2006-07-04 05:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by mike 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because AL is so cool, and very good go blue jays
2006-07-04 09:50:06 · answer #10 · answered by mattdoggbball11 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋