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Royals Lead the AL in New Stat!

 

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

 

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