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The Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona. (Photo by Independent Picture Service/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Today’s Lineups
ANGELS | DIAMONDBACKS |
|---|---|
| Zach Neto – SS | Ketel Marte – DH |
| Mike Trout – DH | Geraldo Perdomo – SS |
| Jo Adell – RF | Corbin Carroll – RF |
| Oswald Peraza – 2B | Gabriel Moreno – C |
| Vaughn Grissom – 1B | Nolan Arenado – 3B |
| Denzer Guzman – 3B | Ildemaro Vargas – 2B |
| Jose Siri – CF | Jordan Lawlar – CF |
| Logan Porter – C | LuJames Groover – 1B |
| Wade Meckler – LF | Tommy Troy – LF |
| Sam Aldegheri – LHP | E. Rodriguez – LHP |
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My attention will be very much diverted this afternoon, with England playing their opening World Cup game in Dallas, with kickoff at 1 pm. Naturally, I’ll be supporting Croatia in that one, for similar reasons to FTD. If England’s offense can be as futile as the D-backs have been over this month to date, that would be fine. It has now been 19 games since the D-backs have scored more than six runs in a contest: the longest such streak since 2018. The last time was the 7-5 win over the Giants in San Francisco on May 26. Since then, the average has been a woeful 2.7 runs/game, with a team line of .198./.277/.311 for a .588 OPS. Put another way, the D-backs have collectively been hitting like Rod Barajas did here.
It is startling to think that the 2024 D-backs, with a good number of the same players, led the league in runs scored – and by 44 runs, at that. Two years later, they’re ranked 20th. I thought it might be interesting to compare the OPS at each position around the diamond between the 2024 and 2026 Diamondbacks, and see where the differences come from.
- Overall: .777 vs. .687 (-90 points)
- C. .706 vs. 650 (-56)
- 1B. .805 vs. .569 (-236)
- 2B. .850 vs. .764 (-86)
- 3B. .775 vs. .748 (-27)
- SS. .703 vs. .721 (+18)
- LF. .828 vs. .641 (-187)
- CF. .639 vs. .570 (-69)
- RF. .780 vs. .880 (+100)
- DH. .891 vs. .581 (-310)
Quite startling. The deficit is almost all over the diamond: right field is the only place with a significant improvement (mostly due to Corbin Carroll’s very slow start in 2024), while shortstop is more or less even. Everywhere else is at least fifty points down – in some cases, a great deal more. It’s not surprise that it’s 1B and DH were the gaps were the biggest, and one imagines those will be the position the team will be looking to strengthen at the trade deadline. Well, if they’re buyers, anyway. Too many more games like the one last night, and they won’t be. Let’s hope for better today, and another series win.
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