Pinto: How the heck is the NL outscoring the AL?

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NL Outscoring the AL
Published 5/7/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... David Pinto of Baseball Musings occasionally writes for the Sporting News and informed me of a trend I thought I'd been noticing: The National League is scoring all kinds of runs early this year. He's got a pretty graph, too. ...

Restoring the Balance
Published 5/7/2008 by Craig Calcaterra at ShysterBall
David Pinto notices that the NL is outscoring the AL and not only that, but that it's doing so in a way that puts lie to the CW that the NL is some totally inferior league that should just fold up or become AAAA or something: ...

The Times They Are A-Changing: National League Outscoring American League
Published 5/7/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... 2008 could make it two. David Pinto's crunched some numbers for the Sporting News and finds that not only is the NL scoring 0.2 more runs per contest this year, they're dominating the AL offensively. And this was before ...

The Times They Are A-Changing: National League Outscoring American League
Published 5/7/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... 2008 could make it two. David Pinto's crunched some numbers for the Sporting News and finds that not only is the NL scoring 0.2 more runs per contest this year, they're dominating the AL offensively. And this was before ...

TSN: Pinto: How the heck is the NL outscoring the AL?
Published 5/7/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
TSN: Pinto: How the heck is the NL outscoring the AL? So help me...If I see Ted Uhlaender end up in the top 5 in Batting Average, I’ll...I’ll… Not only is the NL giving more PA to younger players, its younger players tend to be better. Note that at the ages where the NL OPS is higher, it tends to be much higher than it is at the corresponding AL age. Where the AL OPS is higher, the gap is not quite as large. Even in the 31-34 group, the NL is better except at age 34. This bodes well for the Senior Circuit in the long term. Not only are their hitters producing at a higher ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, May 8
Published 5/8/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... SHIFT IN POWER: When I was growing up, the National League was far and away superior to the American League. Nowadays -- as starkly evidenced hereabouts by the Red Sox' last two World Series appearances -- the opposite is true. But David Pinto, writing for sportingnews.com, writes that the N.L. is actually outscoring the A.L. so far this year and that, with its influx of young talent, it may soon be No. 1 again. ...

Where did the offense go?
Published 5/24/2008 by Lee Panas (noreply@blogger.com) at Tiger Tales: A Detroit Tigers Blog
... - 4.85 in 2007 to 4.37 in 2008. The last time run scoring was that scarce for a full season was 1992. While batting averaged has dropped somewhat, the biggest declines have been in the power stats. Home runs are down 20% this year compared to the last three years while slugging percentage is down by about 6%. Table 2: American League Offense from 2005-2008 So what's going on with the AL offense this year? There are a few different theories. In a recent column in The Sporting News, David Pinto of ...

Temperature and League HR Splits
Published 5/30/2008 by JC at Sabernomics
... , and David Pinto. Because of the designated hitter, AL teams tend to score more runs and hit more home runs than NL teams. This year, this has not been the case. In ...

"Arena Baseball" - The American League's Superiority
Published 6/27/2008 by notsellingjeans at Athletics Nation: Front Page Posts
... What is interesting, however, is that AL superiority was being called into question barely more than a month ago.  David Pinto, who operates the terrific blog baseballmusings.com and also moonlights for The Sporting News, penned this column on May 7 titled,  ...