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The 2006 Orioles were arguably the worst pinch-hitting team of all time. The data is squirrely or missing prior to about 1950, but since then the '06 O's hold the records for lowest pinch hitting batting average, OBP, and SLG. Their pinch hitters went 6-for-65 with no extra base hits and three walks.

Last year's O's pinch hitters went 12-for-71 with no homers. And their .441 OPS was 33rd-worst since 1950.

That is weird. Somehow I managed to convince myself that Reimold hit a PH home run against the LAAoA before they shut him down entirely. Funny how one's memory can pull tricks like that.

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If you've never looked at the 1963 Houston Colt .45's bb-ref page you really should. They hold the record for lowest OPS by an infield at .588 (that includes the catchers). Rusty Staub was their regular first baseman at the age of 19, and he was their best offensive infielder, OPSing .617.

Their #3 hitters OPS'd .544, .036 worse than any other team in the database. This wasn't even their expansion year, this was their 2nd year in the league. And it was before they moved into the notoriously pitcher-friendly Astrodome, they still played at Colt Stadium.

They scored 464 runs all year, the lowest total in a 162-game schedule in history.

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Over the last decade or so I've often railed against the Orioles lack of a bench, with them seemingly punting several roster spots on players who have no ability to hit (or often even field) at all. And I think the data backs me up. The '06 Orioles are 5th-worst in the database, with subs who only created five runs all year. The '02 team was 26th, with only 8 RC. '04 was 33rd-worst at 9 RC. '05, '07, and surprisingly '12 were all in the bottom 103 teams in the data. That makes for six O's teams in the last 10 years among the 103 worst offensive benches of the past 96 years.

Is a "substitute" here someone who isn't a regular, or someone who entered the game after it started?

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Three of the top four, and 13 of the top 50, team strikeout seasons of all time (for pitchers) were last year. The Twins were last in the majors in Ks in 2012 by a wide margin, and their total of 949 is higher than any team-season prior to 1959.

The 2012 Rays and Phillies had more strikeouts in Sept/Oct of last year than the 1918 Philadelphia A's had all year (admittedly in a war-shortened 130 game schedule).

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The 1970 St. Louis Cardinals pitchers' saw an opposing batter a 4th (or more) time in the game 709 times. That's one of the 50 highest totals in the database. But when facing a batter for the 4th+ time Cards pitchers had a 5.55 ERA, compared to a 4.06 overall.

Maybe this newfangled bullpen thing isn't so bad after all.

Billy Martin's crazy 1980 A's staff is the post-WWII leader in having a pitcher face batters 4+ times in a game, by a country mile, at 994. And somehow it worked. They had a 3.11 ERA the 4th or 5th or 6th time through the order.

In 1974 the Tigers, led by John Hiller, had a 1.58 ERA when a reliever was facing a batter for the 3rd+ time in the game. Which they did 184 times that year.

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Did not start the game.

Well, in that case you have to look at the '12 "bench" a little differently. You had a lot of "bench" guys making starts, such as:

Flaherty 42

Chavez 34

Quintanilla 29

Johnson 24

Avery 23

Pearce 21

Tolleson 21

Ford 19

And I didn't include McLouth or Machado on that list. So while the '12 O's didn't get much value from guys coming in mid-game, they did get a fair amount of value from guys starting in lieu of the regulars (or at least, it seems that way to me).

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Well, in that case you have to look at the '12 "bench" a little differently. You had a lot of "bench" guys making starts, such as:

Flaherty 42

Chavez 34

Quintanilla 29

Johnson 24

Avery 23

Pearce 21

Tolleson 21

Ford 19

And I didn't include McLouth or Machado on that list. So while the '12 O's didn't get much value from guys coming in mid-game, they did get a fair amount of value from guys starting in lieu of the regulars (or at least, it seems that way to me).

Sure... but the point was that once Buck made a move, either pinch hitting, or pinch running, or putting in a defensive replacement, they got almost no offensive production out of them.

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