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Message: [QUOTE="senorpalmer, post: 3992899, member: 234"] Don't know if the difference can be fully explained by analytics (or at least I may not be up to it), but Tampa managed to score a lot more runs than the Yanks this year. How did they do it? Matched the Yanks in homers, but got a lot more extra base hits. Yanks hit into twice as many double plays (I think this difference is meaningful). Stole a lot more bases but also got caught a lot more. BA and OBP weren't much different. TB also has a better balance of lefty/righty/switch hitters., whereas the Yanks were very heavy on RH hitting in a park that is built for LH hitters. Tampa can bop like the Yanks can but they're also better at manufacturing runs and aren't as reliant on sitting back and waiting for the 3-run HR. Maybe it sounds cliche but the pieces complement each other, there's more interchangeability and versatility there as well. [/QUOTE]