Here’s a ray of sunshine on a dreary day after the Royals lose their fifth in a row – your Kansas City Royals lead the American League in Don’t Make Outs (DMO)!
What is DMO? It’s a stat I made up that adds base-running skills to OBP, and punishes for GDP. I made it in order to get a clearer picture of a player’s total offensive performance.
The formula is: (H+HBP+BB+SB-CS-GDP-PO)/PA. The stat is expressed as a decimal, and in most cases will be close to OBP. It will drop or rise significantly for players that steal lots of bases or GDP a lot.
Here are the AL totals for 2011 so far (last night’s games not included). I have included OBP as a reference:
Update: Corrected for IBB and added PO
Player | DMO | OBP |
Jarrod Dyson* | 0.552 | 0.286 |
Mitch Maier* | 0.526 | 0.526 |
Wilson Betemit# | 0.386 | 0.386 |
Billy Butler | 0.381 | 0.392 |
Matt Treanor | 0.375 | 0.389 |
Alex Gordon* | 0.333 | 0.339 |
Jeff Francoeur | 0.326 | 0.337 |
Chris Getz* | 0.315 | 0.301 |
Eric Hosmer* | 0.313 | 0.333 |
Melky Cabrera# | 0.305 | 0.305 |
Mike Aviles | 0.290 | 0.269 |
Kila Ka'aihue* | 0.260 | 0.295 |
Alcides Escobar | 0.253 | 0.266 |
Brayan Pena# | 0.250 | 0.279 |
For reference, last year the Royals were middle of the pack, and in 2009 they were next to last in this stat.
Individual Royals players (GO Dyson!):
Update: corrected for IBB and added PO
Tm | DMO | OBP |
KCR | 0.322 | 0.328 |
BOS | 0.321 | 0.337 |
TOR | 0.318 | 0.326 |
CLE | 0.310 | 0.338 |
TEX | 0.303 | 0.33 |
DET | 0.302 | 0.325 |
NYY | 0.298 | 0.334 |
LAA | 0.297 | 0.323 |
BAL | 0.291 | 0.314 |
TBR | 0.288 | 0.312 |
SEA | 0.283 | 0.301 |
OAK | 0.281 | 0.308 |
CHW | 0.271 | 0.311 |
MIN | 0.259 | 0.29 |