An Offense at Rest Tends to Stay at Rest
Perhaps Newton's theories are readily applied to baseball, and specifically to the Red Sox offense.
Last 7 day performance for the Red Sox offense: .198/.260/.264/.524 (avg/obp/slg/ops). Yes, it got worse after last night's win. Included in the past 7 days: 39 H, 197 AB, 2 HRs, 13 runs, 13 RBI, 16 BB, 37 K's. For an entire offense to do that, especially one with at worst decent hitters, is just amazing...amazingly bad.
The good news? The pitching has also done well: 2.55 ERA over the same timeframe. Yes they have a 2-4 record over the last week, but it could have been worse had the pitching not stepped up.
Given Peter's comments on the Yankee offense and the numbers to back it up, .211/.286/.336/.622, it is amazing to see such apparent powerhouse offenses struggle so badly. Perhaps if the two teams merged you could patch together a league average offense. Did I just say merge the Red Sox and Yankees? That's a sacrilegious thing to say on this sight, please forgive me.
