2009 American League

2009 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

2009 National League 2009 Major Leagues

2009 American League Leaders and Trailers
2009 Postseason
2009 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	103.0	59.0	265.0	221.0	43.6
Anaheim Angels	162.0	97.0	65.0	259.0	227.0	31.1
Boston Red Sox	162.0	95.0	67.0	257.0	229.0	27.2
Texas Rangers	162.0	87.0	75.0	249.0	237.0	11.1
Minnesota Twins	163.0	87.0	76.0	250.0	239.0	10.3
Detroit Tigers	163.0	86.0	77.0	249.0	240.0	8.2
Seattle Mariners	162.0	85.0	77.0	247.0	239.0	7.1
Tampa Bay Rays	162.0	84.0	78.0	246.0	240.0	5.5
Chicago White Sox	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-4.8
Oakland Athletics	162.0	75.0	87.0	237.0	249.0	-12.5
Toronto Blue Jays	162.0	75.0	87.0	237.0	249.0	-12.6
Cleveland Indians	162.0	65.0	97.0	227.0	259.0	-32.6
Kansas City Royals	162.0	65.0	97.0	227.0	259.0	-32.6
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	64.0	98.0	226.0	260.0	-35.0

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
New York Yankees	253.3	232.7	20.2	48.4
Boston Red Sox	249.5	236.5	12.2	40.5
Tampa Bay Rays	248.2	237.8	10.0	38.3
Anaheim Angels	247.2	238.8	7.5	35.7
Minnesota Twins	247.4	241.6	5.7	34.0
Toronto Blue Jays	244.8	241.2	3.3	31.4
Texas Rangers	244.4	241.6	2.5	30.8
Detroit Tigers	244.9	244.1	-0.0	28.5
Chicago White Sox	243.1	242.9	-0.2	27.9
Seattle Mariners	241.9	244.1	-2.3	26.5
Oakland Athletics	241.6	244.4	-3.4	24.8
Cleveland Indians	240.2	245.8	-6.4	21.7
Kansas City Royals	238.2	247.8	-10.2	18.1
Baltimore Orioles	236.0	250.0	-14.8	13.5


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	125.7	110.1	0.533	15.6
Boston Red Sox	116.9	108.1	0.520	8.8
Tampa Bay Rays	116.8	109.3	0.517	7.6
Toronto Blue Jays	118.4	113.4	0.511	5.0
Anaheim Angels	115.2	111.1	0.509	4.1
Cleveland Indians	114.8	112.4	0.505	2.4
Minnesota Twins	115.4	114.6	0.502	0.8
Detroit Tigers	111.7	113.1	0.497	-1.4
Texas Rangers	109.7	111.4	0.496	-1.7
Chicago White Sox	112.3	115.1	0.494	-2.8
Baltimore Orioles	110.9	115.3	0.490	-4.4
Oakland Athletics	112.1	117.7	0.488	-5.6
Seattle Mariners	104.3	111.9	0.483	-7.5
Kansas City Royals	104.5	114.7	0.477	-10.2


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Toronto Blue Jays	8.5	7.6	0.529	0.9
Tampa Bay Rays	10.6	9.9	0.518	0.7
Oakland Athletics	9.4	8.9	0.515	0.5
Minnesota Twins	9.2	8.7	0.513	0.5
Anaheim Angels	10.8	10.4	0.509	0.4
Boston Red Sox	8.6	8.3	0.511	0.4
Detroit Tigers	7.8	7.6	0.507	0.2
Cleveland Indians	8.0	8.1	0.500	-0.0
Texas Rangers	8.1	8.2	0.498	-0.1
Chicago White Sox	9.2	9.6	0.489	-0.4
Kansas City Royals	7.6	8.1	0.484	-0.5
Seattle Mariners	7.6	8.2	0.479	-0.7
New York Yankees	8.7	9.4	0.480	-0.7
Baltimore Orioles	8.2	9.6	0.460	-1.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	83.2	77.6	0.518	5.6
Minnesota Twins	81.4	75.8	0.518	5.6
Chicago White Sox	80.6	76.2	0.514	4.4
New York Yankees	78.8	74.5	0.514	4.2
Oakland Athletics	78.7	74.7	0.513	4.0
Anaheim Angels	79.1	75.5	0.512	3.6
Kansas City Royals	82.0	78.7	0.510	3.3
Texas Rangers	83.0	80.4	0.508	2.6
Seattle Mariners	85.0	84.1	0.503	0.9
Detroit Tigers	81.2	81.3	0.500	-0.1
Tampa Bay Rays	78.2	80.0	0.495	-1.7
Toronto Blue Jays	77.2	79.2	0.493	-2.1
Cleveland Indians	74.7	80.4	0.481	-5.8
Baltimore Orioles	76.3	82.4	0.481	-6.1


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Seattle Mariners	45.4	39.6	0.534	5.8
Tampa Bay Rays	42.2	39.0	0.520	3.2
Texas Rangers	43.9	41.3	0.516	2.7
Detroit Tigers	44.1	42.2	0.511	1.9
Baltimore Orioles	41.7	41.7	0.500	-0.1
Toronto Blue Jays	40.7	40.9	0.499	-0.2
New York Yankees	39.3	39.5	0.498	-0.2
Anaheim Angels	41.8	42.1	0.498	-0.4
Minnesota Twins	41.5	42.6	0.493	-1.1
Chicago White Sox	40.9	42.1	0.493	-1.2
Oakland Athletics	41.5	43.0	0.492	-1.4
Cleveland Indians	43.0	44.6	0.491	-1.6
Kansas City Royals	44.1	46.3	0.488	-2.2
Boston Red Sox	40.1	43.2	0.481	-3.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 2009 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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