The Gators regain their spot as the lone contender through games of Sunday and meet all 5 of our criteria.
| Team | Record | Fielding | ERA | Batting | Slugging | SoS |
| Florida | 35-13 | 4 | 14 | 97 | 13 | 5 |
Batting Average on Balls in Play (BABIP) is the batting average on batted balls ending a plate appearance, excluding home runs. BABIP for pitchers is mostly a function of a pitcher’s defense and luck, rather than persistent skill. Thus, pitchers with abnormally high or low BABIPs are good bets to see their performances regress to [...]
Not a lot changed in the runs produced category over the weekend. Garrett Boulware leads the team in both runs produced per game and runs produced per plate appearance. I’ve documented Tyler Slaton’s numbers in this metric before, but it’s worth pointing out that Slaton came to bat with 15 runners on base in the [...]
Breaking News! Daniel Gossett can pitch. Coming into Thursday’s game Gossett had 80 strikeouts in 80 innings. Even I can do that math. But something curious happened in Tallahassee – Gossett pitched 6 shutout innings and had only 3 strikeouts while giving up only 3 hits in an 8-2 Clemson win. “Goose” proved that he [...]
