Worst Hitting Teams in Baseball in 2008
June 2, 2008 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Stats and Analysis
Kansas City Royals
The Royals actually have a lot of talented arms. The problem in Kansas City this year is their total lack of hitting. The Royals are 23-34 and they are lucky to be that good with the way they’ve swung the bat. The good news is Jose Guillen has started to heat up so perhaps there is hope for the Royals.
San Diego Padres
The Padres play in a pitcher’s park but that doesn’t totally explain why they are last in the NL in runs scored. Adrian Gonzalez is having a good season but that can’t be said for any other batter on San Diego. In fact, Gonzalez has more homers than the next highest two totals combined.
Washington Nationals
The Nationals are horrible once again and it’s their bats that are most to blame. They have a few decent bats in their lineup but they just have too much trouble scoring runs. The 24-34 Nationals really have no hope of coming out of the cellar unless they bring in a few hitters for the middle of the lineup.
San Francisco Giants
The Giants have been hot lately but they still field one of the worst lineup of the last decade. Bengie Molina is a good catcher and a solid hitter, but he’s far from your prototypical cleanup hitter. For the Giants, he’s the best thing they have going.
Cleanup Hitter?
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SF Giants are the most boring team in the league have benn taping there games
for yrs but this pathetic offense makes the impossible to watch,unless I’m in
reno or vegas with thir decent pitching taking the under on any game in pacbell,
petco or Dodger Stadium is almost a done deal why the oddsmakers never compenesate
for this is a mystery,this weekend will be same thing in safeco field especally when that
clown Krukow said Safeco was an offensive park.