2004 American League

2004 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

2004 National League 2004 Major Leagues

2004 American League Leaders and Trailers
2004 Postseason
2004 Season as Seen Through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

Positional Average (Weighted Avg of Options): 0.500 (1-Year) (9-Year) (Long-Run) "

Positional Averages for Pitchers (Wgted Avg of Options): 0.500 "vs. Different Values for Starting vs. Relief Pitchers: (Empirical) (Based on Pitchers who Do Both)


Basic Player Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by pWOPA)
Team	Games	Wins	Losses	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA
New York Yankees	162.0	101.0	61.0	263.0	223.0	39.4
Boston Red Sox	162.0	98.0	64.0	260.0	226.0	33.8
Minnesota Twins	162.0	92.0	70.0	254.0	232.0	21.4
Anaheim Angels	162.0	92.0	70.0	254.0	232.0	21.3
Oakland Athletics	162.0	91.0	71.0	253.0	233.0	19.4
Texas Rangers	162.0	89.0	73.0	251.0	235.0	15.2
Chicago White Sox	162.0	83.0	79.0	245.0	241.0	3.4
Cleveland Indians	162.0	80.0	82.0	242.0	244.0	-2.5
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	78.0	84.0	240.0	246.0	-6.4
Detroit Tigers	162.0	72.0	90.0	234.0	252.0	-18.4
Tampa Bay Rays	161.0	70.0	91.0	231.0	252.0	-21.8
Toronto Blue Jays	161.0	67.0	94.0	228.0	255.0	-27.7
Seattle Mariners	162.0	63.0	99.0	225.0	261.0	-36.8
Kansas City Royals	162.0	58.0	104.0	220.0	266.0	-46.7

Ties count as 0.5 win and 0.5 loss. Teams in bold made the postseason. pWins equal team wins plus team games; pLosses equal team losses plus team games.


Expected Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by eWORL)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL
Boston Red Sox	255.2	230.8	23.8	52.3
New York Yankees	250.4	235.6	14.3	43.1
Minnesota Twins	249.6	236.4	12.9	41.8
Oakland Athletics	247.9	238.1	9.0	37.9
Anaheim Angels	246.5	239.5	6.4	35.1
Texas Rangers	244.7	241.3	2.8	31.9
Chicago White Sox	244.0	242.0	1.7	30.6
Cleveland Indians	243.3	242.7	0.2	29.3
Baltimore Orioles	242.3	243.7	-1.5	27.2
Detroit Tigers	242.4	243.6	-1.8	27.1
Toronto Blue Jays	237.1	245.9	-9.5	19.4
Seattle Mariners	237.9	248.1	-11.6	17.2
Tampa Bay Rays	235.5	247.5	-12.7	16.0
Kansas City Royals	232.1	253.9	-22.6	6.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	124.4	113.5	0.523	10.9
New York Yankees	119.6	110.8	0.519	8.8
Cleveland Indians	115.0	108.8	0.514	6.2
Chicago White Sox	114.9	110.3	0.510	4.6
Texas Rangers	111.4	107.8	0.508	3.6
Detroit Tigers	112.6	109.8	0.506	2.7
Oakland Athletics	114.7	112.3	0.505	2.4
Baltimore Orioles	113.8	112.5	0.503	1.3
Anaheim Angels	115.3	116.0	0.499	-0.6
Minnesota Twins	111.4	114.1	0.494	-2.7
Kansas City Royals	105.2	112.1	0.484	-6.9
Seattle Mariners	112.7	119.9	0.484	-7.2
Tampa Bay Rays	107.2	115.0	0.482	-7.8
Toronto Blue Jays	105.0	113.1	0.482	-8.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Tampa Bay Rays	9.2	8.1	0.533	1.1
Minnesota Twins	9.9	9.0	0.526	1.0
Seattle Mariners	9.2	8.8	0.512	0.4
Oakland Athletics	7.2	6.8	0.513	0.4
Texas Rangers	7.6	7.3	0.511	0.3
Boston Red Sox	9.9	9.6	0.507	0.3
Cleveland Indians	9.6	9.6	0.499	-0.0
Detroit Tigers	8.6	8.7	0.496	-0.1
Anaheim Angels	9.3	9.6	0.492	-0.3
Chicago White Sox	8.7	9.1	0.490	-0.3
Kansas City Royals	8.2	8.7	0.484	-0.5
New York Yankees	7.8	8.6	0.478	-0.7
Baltimore Orioles	8.7	9.6	0.477	-0.8
Toronto Blue Jays	7.6	8.6	0.469	-1.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Minnesota Twins	84.7	71.3	0.543	13.5
Boston Red Sox	79.3	68.6	0.536	10.7
New York Yankees	81.6	73.6	0.526	8.0
Anaheim Angels	79.6	72.3	0.524	7.4
Oakland Athletics	80.3	77.4	0.509	2.9
Toronto Blue Jays	81.4	80.9	0.502	0.5
Texas Rangers	81.8	82.1	0.499	-0.3
Baltimore Orioles	77.6	77.9	0.499	-0.3
Detroit Tigers	77.8	79.6	0.494	-1.8
Chicago White Sox	79.5	81.9	0.493	-2.3
Cleveland Indians	77.2	80.7	0.489	-3.4
Seattle Mariners	75.7	81.2	0.482	-5.5
Tampa Bay Rays	76.6	83.5	0.478	-6.9
Kansas City Royals	75.0	84.8	0.469	-9.8


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Tampa Bay Rays	43.3	40.1	0.519	3.2
Seattle Mariners	40.7	37.9	0.518	2.8
Oakland Athletics	45.0	42.3	0.516	2.8
Chicago White Sox	41.0	40.6	0.502	0.4
Texas Rangers	44.2	43.9	0.502	0.3
Toronto Blue Jays	43.3	43.1	0.501	0.2
Minnesota Twins	42.8	42.9	0.499	-0.1
Anaheim Angels	41.9	42.1	0.499	-0.2
Boston Red Sox	39.9	40.9	0.494	-0.9
Baltimore Orioles	42.4	43.4	0.494	-1.0
Cleveland Indians	41.8	43.4	0.491	-1.6
Kansas City Royals	45.1	46.9	0.490	-1.9
Detroit Tigers	43.5	45.5	0.489	-2.0
New York Yankees	41.0	43.1	0.487	-2.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 2004 American League

Ballpark Factors
Net Win Values
Positional Averages
Replacement Levels
Division of Shared Credit
Event Probabilities

^*Player won-loss records are calculated using Retrosheet play-by-play data. For some seasons, Retrosheet does not have full play-by-play data for all games. In these cases, some games may be missing.
The number of Games shown here are the number of games for which Retrosheet play-by-play data exist and were used in these calculations.

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