{"id":462,"date":"2008-06-14T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=462"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:46:37","slug":"rangers-and-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Rangers and Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to today&#8217;s match-ups, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/team_audit.php?team=TEX\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>have scored more runs per game than any team in the Majors (5.57), but they&#8217;ve also conceded more runs per game than anyone else as well (5.84).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why they sit one game below five hundred (34-35).<\/p>\n<p>People often talk about the different styles of football teams, with sides that prefer to win 4-3 than 1-0 becoming crowd-pleasers and media darlings.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a maverick, swash-buckling way to play the game and it doesn&#8217;t often produce championship winners.\u00c2\u00a0 Teams that can grind out a 1-0 victory when they aren&#8217;t playing well are the ones that generally end up on top.\u00c2\u00a0 Tom Hicks&#8217;s manager at Liverpool certainly preaches the values of pragmatism over panache.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers aren&#8217;t playing to the galleries and you won&#8217;t hear Ron Washington saying that he&#8217;s happy for the opposition to score four runs because he knows his team will score five.\u00c2\u00a0 They are not playing a high-scoring game by design, although maybe Rangers Ballpark is having an effect?\u00c2\u00a0 No, the truth is that they can hit but they can&#8217;t pitch.\u00c2\u00a0 If their offense starts to falter, they could plummet quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 If they find some pitching, the Angels will have a battle on their hands in the AL West\u00c2\u00a0(even with their current 7.5 game cushion).<\/p>\n<p>One thing&#8217;s for sure: if you&#8217;re a fan of high-scoring games, the Rangers are a good team to watch at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to today&#8217;s match-ups, the Texas Rangers\u00c2\u00a0have scored more runs per game than any team in the Majors (5.57), but they&#8217;ve also conceded more runs per game than anyone else as well (5.84).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why they sit one game below five hundred (34-35). People often talk about the different styles of football teams, with sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4586,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}