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Angels rolling a .300 game

August 18, 2009 | 3:06 pm

 

The Angels' starting lineup for tonight's game against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field features eight hitters who are batting .300 or above -- Chone Figgins (.310), Bobby Abreu (.309), Juan Rivera (.314), Vladimir Guerrero (.306), Kendry Morales (.304), Torii Hunter (.306), Maicer Izturis (.301) and Erick Aybar (.311).

 

The only sub-.300 hitter is in the eighth spot, where catcher/slacker Mike Napoli is batting only.297. Of course, Napoli also has 16 home runs and 45 runs batted in, so he's not that much of a slouch.

 

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, you have to go all the way back to the 1930 New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals to find lineups in which each player had at least a .300 average with 200 at-bats or more.

 

LA Times

 

Angels lineup as of right now

 

Figgins - .310, 93 runs scored, 37 stolen bases, .403 OBP

Abreu - .313, 11 home runs, 80 RBIs, 25 stolen bases, .406 OBP

Rivera - .312, 19 home runs, 67 RBIs, .519 SLG%

Guerrero - .309, 10 home runs (injured for a while)

Morales - .304, 26 home runs, 76 RBIs, .579 SLG%

Hunter - .305, 17 home runs, 67 RBIs (injured for a while)

Izturis - .300, 7 home rus, 10 stolen bases

Napoli - .300, 16 home runs, 45 RBIs, .906 OPS

Aybar - .313, 5 home runs, 11 stolen bases

 

That lineup is crazy!

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The Yankees and Angels are interchangeable IMO. The Yankees would have monster numbers no matter where they play so let's just get that straight. Both teams are raking right now.

 

Well, it depends on what your definition of "monster" numbers are becuase they would be down at least a couple of rankings in the runs scored if they didn't play in Williamsport, so let's just get that straight.

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Nahh the Yankees arent as good. Angels have scored 679 (1st in MLB) compared to the Yankees 664. NOT TO MENTION that launching pad the Yankees play in, so their numbers are highly inflated. Angels batting average is also 13 points higher then the Yankees.

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